Samuel, it’s taken me literally the last two months since the Reader shutdown announcement to work out my replacement. It’s almost embarrassing to think of how much time I’ve put into this decision. After scrutinizing all the options, I whittled it down to two: Newsblur and Feedbin. I bought a year subscription to both, and figure that will be enough time to settle the question.
So far I’ve found myself using Newsblur a lot more often, I think largely because your service fetches feeds way, way faster than Feedbin does right now. On the other hand, I really like that Feedbin offers tagging, and TwentyFive Squares, the developers of the Press Android app, which I use every day, just announced Feedbin as one of their Google Reader replacement backend options for Press. Hopefully they will add Newsblur as an option soon too…
Anyhow, thanks for operating such a great service. It’s definitely worth $2/month so far!