{"id":16049,"date":"2013-07-23T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=16049"},"modified":"2013-07-23T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:03:38","slug":"the-old-reader-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/07\/the-old-reader-is-down.html","title":{"rendered":"The Old Reader is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/04\/the-old-reader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"108\">Many readers will know that, in order to be able to have a feed of shared items that others can access (which used to be in a sidebar on the blog before that started causing errors due to slow load times), I moved from the now-defunct Google Reader to TheOldReader, which was basically a clone of what Google Reader looked like at its best.<\/p>\n<p>TheOldReader is currently down, and so I suspect that some folks, like me, are wondering what to do about their blog reading. I had come to rely on an RSS feed reader, and don\u2019t know whether, even if I spent all day doing so, I could actually remember what all the blogs are that I subscribe to and check them individually.<\/p>\n<p>What technology have you come to rely on? Have you ever had it fail you? 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