Digg Reader as Google Reader replacement is disappointing

Since Feedly disappointed me I gave Digg Reader a try. In case everybody forgot already, Digg used to be something like Reddit, except with much more frequent corporate-driven redesigns - and one too many of them killed the site. Meanwhile Reddit is getting more popular than ever proving that simply not breaking what's working in corporate redesign spree gives you a lot of competitive advantage.

Anyway, Digg Reader is currently completely unusable:

• There's no "Show only unread items" mode. Seriously.
• Items are ordered by their timestamp, not time of arrival on the list - so they routinely arrive on page 2 or 3.
• To make matters worse, Digg Reader doesn't update as often as Google Reader, so arriving way down is a pretty common problem. And even if that wasn't a problem low update frequency is just very annoying.
• There aren't even any counts of unread items per feed.

I expect they'll fix these issues someday, but for now it's literally unusable, and I'll be testing another RSS reader next. Probably expect a few more posts like that in the future.

Feedly as Google Reader replacement is disappointing

Sad panda doesn't want Google Reader to go away

Due to imminent death of Google Reader and finally getting a real phone I've been looking for a replacement and one of apps I tried was Feedly. Unfortunately it's pretty bad at its simple task.

The problem is that what RSS feeds contain are web pages. And web pages have links. And links do not work properly with Feedly on a phone.

• Open Feedly on a phone
• Select an article you want to read (since usually you'll only see a short summary)
• Click Visit Website to see the whole article - this is where things start to go wrong, since instead of a real browser Feedly opens some silly view with extra buttons, but I can tolerate that
• Click a link from the article - since it's not a real browser it doesn't have tabs, but we at least have back button, right?
• Finish whatever linked thing you read, press back button
• Feedly goes back to list of your feeds instead of article you were halfway through, WTF!!!

And this makes Feedly completely unusable. Web without properly working links is not really web.

Are there any alternatives before they shut down Google Reader for good?