I was dismayed when earlier this year Google announced that they were going to discontinue Google Reader at the beginning of July.  I follow a lot of blogs and photo sites and the RSS reader allows me to see at a glance when someone had made a new post which meant that I didn’t have to click all the links to find out if there was new content.

When the announcement was made I had a quick scout around for a replacement, but none of the alternatives I came across seemed to be what I was looking for, so I put the search for a replacement on hold.  Time ran away with me and I realised that shut down was only three weeks away.  I really needed to do something to transfer all my feeds before it was too late…

I had a few moments to spare last weekend so I was able to look into it in more detail.  The first RSS reader I tried, told me to click import, sit back and I would be informed when all the feeds had been imported.  The site kept crashing and it would only import one RSS feed at a time making it an impossible task.  I gave up on that one and deleted all my info from the site.

I then checked some articles on the best replacements to ‘Google Reader’ and came across ‘The Old Reader‘ which looked very similar to what I was already using.  I signed up and it imported my feeds with no trouble.  It is very similar to ‘Google Reader’, although it has some differences meaning there is a slight learning curve.   But on the whole I am enjoying it and would recommend it if you like to find your daily news via a reader.

You can check it out here.