Hip hip hooray!  My OPML file has finally been uploaded by The Old Reader and it couldn’t be sooner as it is harder and harder to find links to Google Reader on any of those ‘more’ menus.  Now that I’ve spent the day with it, I have to tell you I am hella pleased!  I wasn’t looking for something vastly different, new and exciting, else I would’ve been looking for something to replace my Google Reader long ago.  Nope, I liked how it worked and I accepted the changes over the years that I didn’t like (ex. Google+ replacing the ‘Shared Items’ feed).  I liked my shared items.  It was like a blog for what I read and if anyone wanted to see the internet as it is filtered through my head then they could subscribe.  Well The Old Reader has a shared items feed just like Google Reader used to have.  Here is mine.

And, there was this nifty thing on my Home screen that alerted me to possibly dead feeds.  This was awesome, and led me to clean out a few more.  Sorry, The Old Reader, my OPML could have been smaller.

If I had any complaints it would be that the option to ‘show only unread’ items in the settings menu doesn’t affect how your feeds show up in the navigation on the left.  But I can totally deal with that.

I wholeheartedly recommend The Old Reader for any of you Google Reader kids looking for a new world.  It took a while for my feeds to import due to heavy migratory traffic, so prepare to twiddle your thumbs, but you’ll get an email when it is done, so there is no wondering.