Feedly promises a painless migration of Google Reader users to your backend

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If you, like many users of Google Reader, are shocked by the news of its closure on July 1, then you can easily switch to another similar service. The developers of the mobile application and web service Feedly invite everyone to their place. At the moment, their service and mobile RSS applications are working through the Google Reader API, but the company has already started developing its own Normandy backend and promises to migrate to it from the 1st of July “unnoticed” for users.

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In the near future, another series of RSS readers with mobile applications will probably start, so that the “abandoned” users of Google Reader will have several alternative options.
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Closing Google Reader is a good lesson for anyone relying on web services. In fact, such services belong to a company that can close them at any time. This usually happens with unsuitable services that have lost their audience. But it can happen even with quite successful services, which have a huge audience, like Google Reader, simply because the company-owner has considered this direction unpromising. In the case of Google Reader, this is especially offensive, because there is a sense of some kind of injustice when a quite popular and successful project is “killed”.

On the other hand, this is a chance for entrepreneurs who are simply obliged to take on the freed-up audience. “I think RSS is so important that I’m ready to leave my current job (to leave MeFi) for the sake of any startup that will make an improved version of Google Reader without social features,” wrote Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter.com on Twitter.

Actually, it's time to start working: three and a half months left before the closure of Google Reader!

PS Another 17 alternatives to Google Reader , the list is growing.

UPD. The Feedly website has a page with tips for users who migrate with Google Reader . It tells you how to customize the interface in a minimalist style, how to mark articles for later reading, how to add tags, where advanced settings are located, and a list of keyboard shortcuts for convenient operation.