The Old Reader is finally charging for its service, but the rates aren’t competitive with similar/more featureful services, and most users with more than 100 feeds have only two weeks to decide.

To get your data out of The Old Reader:

Export your feeds

1. Login to The Old Reader (ThOR)
2. https://theoldreader.com/feeds.opml

This file is what you’ll probably import into another service to get the same list of feeds. If all you use ThOR for is reading feeds, you don’t really have to do anything else.

Cancel your account

1. Login to ThOR
2. https://theoldreader.com/users/edit
3. Click “cancel your account”

Dump your shares

This isn’t built in. You have to use the undocumented API (in a probably-violating-ToS manner, YMMV, not a lawyer, etc.).

1. Log OUT of ThOR
2. Open your browser’s dev tools.
3. In the dev tools, go to the network tab.
4. On the ThOR home page, click “Login”.
5. Sign in, then watch the...