It would try the patience of angels

Never mind all this popery. The big news of the day is that Google is retiring Google Reader in July.

I use Google Reader, and am thus disappointed. On the plus side, with that gone, I'll have no reason to be signed into my Google account most of the time. I do use Google Docs, but that tends to be an infrequent sign-in-use-sign-out business. And anything which takes me one step away from Google's Giant Data Extraction Vortex is probably a good thing.

I'm lightly surprised, though. Apparently usage of Google Reader is declining. I'm not sure if this is indicative of better software being out there, or of a general decline in RSS use. Maybe all the cool kids use Facetweet as aggregators these days?

So, ladies and gentlemen of LJ, how should I read my RSS feeds in the future?

[Poll #1901989]


(Ars Technica is running a poll on "where should we go instead?", and they probably have a slightly bigger readership than I do. They're also better informed about the large number of RSS readers which rely on Google Reader to work.)

I don't wanna get stoned, I don't wanna get stoned

Hmm. LJ's stylesheets for individual journals seem really quite broken this morning. Looking at venta.livejournal.com, the headers seem to be all over the place (and all the cut-tags have Collapse added next to them, though they still seem to work as normal).

I presume other people are seeing this, it's not just me? (Some people's journals look fine - I'm guessing that S2 styles are OK, and everything else isn't? Haven't tested exhaustively.)

Edit: whatever it was has gone away.