I was insanely angry with Google’s decision still I am. Here are some stats from my Google Reader takeout data.
If you are people who think Social feed is replacing it, I promise you it never will. Reader is completely a different beast. I agree with Führer here. Leave.
Larry, if all these are because of Steve’s advice. Learn one important attribute of Steve, his ability to change his mind.
Kill products that are copycat of others (cough! cough! Google+). Whatever the efforts that went into recent changes of Google reader (Unified theme, Removing “Share” feature and add “+1” features) are the reasons why there was a decline in usage.
Chrome updated its policy to not to install extensions and scripts outside of Google webstore by default. (Gatekeeper, everyone wants to be the police)
I love the theme of the Pure Reader for Safari (http://nadesign.net/safari/). I’ve ported the CSS as a userscript to use it with Google Chrome. Firefox need some css modification pls find the css here.