The Old Reader formally announces comeback

For all of you who were worrying about Google Reader replacements falling off the map, there’s some respite. The Old Reader, the service that was melodramatically going to shutter services to a huge chunk of its subscribers, has announced that it will not be shutting shop after all, hinting at a new parent company.

The Old Reader is back! (Image credit: Getty Images)

The brand new team that has been added to The Old Reader’s team, which was battling severe exhaustion, will be part of engineering, communications and system administration functions. The service will remain open to public for sign-up. The team has cautioned that in its attempt to grow The Old Reader to a bigger hosting facility, current users will be seeing some downtime, but this will eventually lead to “a lot more servers, 10x faster networks and long-term stability.”

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The Old Reader team, which was seeing sign-ups on the service growing manifold since Google announced that it was killing Reader off, decided to throw in the towel and limit its services only to users who had signed up before the announcement. This took many users aback who packed their feeds from the site and vowed to not come back, despite the team announcing that the service will be available to all now. While The Old Reader was already one of the top replacement services after Google Reader died, this announcement and backtracking by the team has surely brought more attention to the site.