I got the same revived old entries. Google Reader works, but had a blip yesterday. Mark stuff as read again and move on people.

BTW, I read this story on Google Reader, fwiw.

The blip is still occurring today. Every five minutes my Reader says 1000+ new entries.

haha, me too

What are the appropriately open / stripped down alternatives? I don't need a social network (or even 10s update rates), just a cloud that knows what I've already read.

NewsBlur is an open source alternative that's worked great for me over the past year or so. Even if GR isn't destined to be shut down, NewsBlur's worth the switch just for the Intelligence feature.

This is really messing with my news consumption. Looking for best alternatives.

I haven't seen any problems in Reeder, which uses Google Reader as a back-end server for feeds and "read/unread" state.

Perhaps this is just a problem in the web client code?

According to the article, it is a problem for clients that use it as a back-end too. Seems like it isn't affecting everyone though.

I noticed problems with Google Reader last night. Not present in Firefox and they went away when I restarted Chrome.

It's been on and off for me since yesterday.

I expect Google will discontinue the Reader at some point and suggest to use Google+ instead.

That would drive me crazy. RSS might not be the perfect technology, but for someone like me, who likes to skim headlines and brief summaries throughout the day, it's a great way to keep everything organized. I don't want all of my RSS feed to be social.

IMO RSS is one of the backbones of the social net. There are a lot of people out there that pull content into the social networks from their rss stream.

There is also this: From my experience, social networks as they exist today are totally useless for keeping up with a large number of information sources. It is just impossible to keep things sorted. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

That would be like discontinuing Google Reader and pointing people to Google Docs as an alternative.

Apples and oranges.

It's back up for me it seems. Knock on wood, I guess.

Works fine for me.

Same here. Haven't had any problems yet.