Feedspot.com Over TheOldReader
At the moment Feedspot.com is significantly faster for me than TheOldReader, and so it is my main choice as a Reader replacement. What matters is if it can continue being this fast when the masses come.

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Feedspot.com Over TheOldReader
At the moment Feedspot.com is significantly faster for me than TheOldReader, and so it is my main choice as a Reader replacement. What matters is if it can continue being this fast when the masses come.

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While the Old Reader is down, Feedspot seems to be a good alternative. You may also benefit from my custom CSS (use with Stylebot in Chrome) to hide the unnecessary parts of the UI and make it show only the articles and folders (photo above shows the css in action):
.fixed-subnav,.topwrapper {display: none;}
The List
Online Readers
TheOldReader (tries to re-create the sense and feel of the old Google Reader, my first choice currently as a replacement for Google Reader)
NewsBlur (haven't tried it since it requires a whole year's subscription before you can test it out properly)
NetVibes (NetVibes for some reason reminds me of the cable-TViation of the web, and this negative image impressed on my mind has kept me away from them)
GoodNoows (I used the OPML import functionality and it took more than an hour to finish importing my 4500 line file. Then for some reason it kept showing me articles from intellectually bankrupt NY Times till I figured out how to show my own stuff. It seems fast and slick, but no starring ability, and seems to be made with the same cable-tv mindset as NetVibes)
CommaFeed, meant to be a bloat-free RSS reader. Haven't tested it out.
Know any other good Reader alternatives? Submit them here.
Self-Hosted Readers
An article about Owncloud News, a self-hosted linux-based reader that's currently in alpha.
Tiny Tiny RSS, requires LAMP or similar on the server side. Here is a ready-to-run installation for windows, use this to test it out without having to deal with server set up hassle. (My Google Drive mirror, much faster and no download wait) To make Tiny Tiny RSS look and act more like Google Reader, be sure to enable the googlereaderkeys plugin in the plugins section of the preferences page, and also put the css file in this forum attachment into the "themes" folder under htdocs, then select it in the preferences page.
selfoss, requires LAMP.
Managing News.
FeedHQ (python)
Desktop
RSSOwl (windows, mac, linux)
Liferea (linux)
FeedDemon (windows)
NetNewsWire (mac)
Features I'd Pay $20/month for
Infinite saving of unread items. I want to have a reliable log of the blogs I care about, so that when I spend a year focusing on a project and then come back to the blog in my reader, I can start reading right from where I stopped.
The "F" shortcut key from Google Reader that made the entire UI disappear so that I could focus fully on reading.