Hopefully you can scale quickly and convert many of the users. 
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Yeahā¦ I want to go subscribe for another year, even though thereās probably 9 months left in my original $24. Take My Money!
Yep, I think thereāll be a massive explosion of users coming today. Iām one of them (had an account but didnāt use it too frequently, Iām now switched!).
I just jumped over too. Things are slow going right now but I expected that with the annocement today. Hopefully I can give legit feedback once things settle down but as for right now this system is pretty much unusable for me.
Iām a completely new user, and managed to register, import all my google reader subscriptions (albeit a little sluggishly) AND pay for a year, without too much hassle.
I understand the huge load, and hope the site gets well soon, because itās really promising 
Youāre definitely looking at a lot of new users, so please update your mobile app!
I was thinking the exact same thing. All of the gReader users are looking for alternatives, and this service needs a good boost. Iāve already recommended this as an alternative to the few hundred people that follow me. Time to step it up!!
Honestly, Iām happy to see things like this go to the little guys as I believe it better to support the independent developer community instead of the larger corporate sphere.
Congrats!
I switched from Google Reader to Newsblur about 2 hours ago (I was one of the āexodusā crowd) - even though it took me about 45 minutes to fully transfer my feeds over due to website traffic, I was so happy to finally find an alternative to Google Reader that I glady paid for a $3/month Premium Membership.
Thanks everybody. Sorry about the slow down. I just went from a single app server to 6 and am now booting my 7th and 8th. Unfortunately, the databases are not sharded, so thereās now quite a bit of work in order to make the next bottleneck scale out. But itāll happen all before the July deadline.
Donāt forget the re-design: dev.newsblur.com
Switched and loving it, signed up for a premium account after trying about 5 alternatives. Figure serviceāll be rocky for the next while, but itās quite usable on dev.newsblur.com.
Gonna have to retrain my fingers to hit the arrow keys instead of n and p to move between stories, though
Samuel, youāve made an awesome service!
There isnāt another RSS service anyhow close to NewsBlur in terms of managing subscriptions and reading, really reading text news. All that competitors can offer is a creepy social-network like bloatness to view lolcats and sport news.
NewsBlur, in the opposite, is powerful as Outlook. And thatās really great!
A couple of months ago I gave NewsBlur a try and didnāt like some interface features, but now looking at dev.newsblur.com I didnāt hesitate a minute to go premium. Totally worth it!
How difficult is it to transfer your feed from google reader?
Keep it up. Just waiting for performance issues to sort them selves out and then Iāll definitely use it and pay some :)) for my 56 google reader sites imported
Almost no trouble. Exporting from Google Reader doesnāt work good, guess because of the load issues. But exporting OPML from Google and importing to NewsBlur works nice.
Import messed only one folder from Google Reader, fixed it in a few clicks.
You can try out the new version at https://dev.newsblur.com which is currently still coping. Same backend so your account and feeds should all be there.
Whoa, Sam, I am digging the redesign!! Still (totally understandably, given the surprise time frame) a few issues to be worked out, but this is great! Nice to see that quite a few of my custom CSS tweaks wonāt have to be remade once this goes live
Woke this morning to see the news and went into a panic until I found NewsBlur.
Manged (after some understandable slow points) to transfer my feeds over and sign up for a premium account and what I can see so far looks good.
Appreciate that for the next few days the system responsiveness is not likely to be typical so donāt worry and keep doing what youāre doing!
I really like dev.newsblur.com, itās a great replacement for Google Reader. Iāll upgrade to premium as soon as the server load goes down.
Oh man, a FOSS RSS reader in the cloud?
Shut up, here, take my money.