What Would You Do If The WordPress Reader Stopped Working ?
By Biraj Bardewa •
Many of us rely on the WordPress Reader to come across the feeds of those bloggers that we are following.
Those of us who are accustomed to using the WordPress Reader also use it to locate new blogs from like-minded bloggers.
If the WordPress Reader were to stop working, many of us would feel as though a part of our lives were ripped away.
While the WordPress Reader might be a bit glitchy at times, I do not think that it has ever been down (But there is a first time for everything).
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This blog post ― What Would You Do If The WordPress Reader Stopped Working?, is part of my What If series ― one that was specifically created to let me know what your reactions would be like if you were confronted with a particular situation.
So, without further ado, it is time for us to have fun thinking outside of the box.
You Will Simply Wait For The Happiness Engineers To Fix It
Some people will wait patiently for the Happiness Engineers to bring the WordPress Reader back online (After all, it is their job to fix whatever breaks on WordPress).
While we may be deeply concerned about the WordPress Reader being down, we will continue to blog as normal.
Hey, many of us might even publish a blog post about the WordPress Reader being down.
You Might Do Nothing
If you are one of those people who follow bloggers via email, the WordPress Reader being down is not going to affect you.
It would be like nothing bad had ever happened on WordPress; the only way that you might find out that the WordPress Reader was down is if someone told you about it.
Yes, my friend, it is absolutely true that there are WordPress bloggers that do not use the WordPress Reader.
You Might Utilize Your Printed List Of Favourite Bloggers
My friend, Rory, has a list of favourite bloggers; he can refer to it anytime he wants to know the URL of blogs that he would like to visit for the day.
Many of us have never thought about creating a physical or digital list of the URLs of our favourite bloggers.
Hats off to you Rory for implementing a simple solution to never losing touch with your favourite bloggers.
You Might Use Feedly
I have been using Feedly for many years; I started using Feedly when I was over at Blogger (Blogger did not have anything quite as effective as the WordPress Reader and I used Feedly to follow blogs).
Feedly, in my opinion, is way more reliable than the WordPress Reader.
And, why is it that I think Feedly is more reliable than the WordPress Reader?
It is more reliable than the WordPress Reader because you will always be notified whenever a fellow blogger publishes a new blog post on their blog.
The WordPress Reader, on the other hand, does not always display the feeds of some of the bloggers that you are following (Some bloggers have complained about not seeing the feeds from the bloggers that they are following on their WordPress Reader).
You Would Rely On Your Memory
Memorizing a URL is nothing new (Many people on the planet do it).
Also, there are bloggers who have chosen URLs for their blogs that are easy for people to remember.
Therefore, if the WordPress Reader were to stop working in the future, there are those who would be able to visit your blog as well as the blogs of others by simply remembering those URLs.
You Will Rely On Your Web Browser’s History
Provided that you did not delete your web browser’s history, you can go back and check it out with the hopes of locating the URLs of your favourite bloggers.
The easiest way, of course, is to start typing in the URL in the designated area for website addresses and it would show up before you were able to finish typing the full address.
In a case, such as this one, your web browser’s history will come in handy.
Wrapping Up
The God’s/Goddess’s truth is that many of us have become heavily addicted to using the WordPress Reader.
By the way, I am in no way insinuating that you should stop using the WordPress Reader (That would be crazy. Plus I am a fan of the WordPress Reader ― I use it a lot; it is used for the sole purpose of coming across the feeds of those bloggers that I am following and for locating the types of blogs that I am interested in).
If we rely on the WordPress Reader too much, we might find ourselves feeling miserable the day that it actually goes down.
And, even if the WordPress Reader goes down, we can still come across the blog posts of our favourite WordPress bloggers by doing one of the following things:
- Subscribing to their blog via email.
- Utilizing a printed list that has the website addresses of our favourite bloggers.
- Using Feedly (Which will notify us whenever a favourite blogger of ours publishes new content on their blog).
- Using our own memory to remember the URLs of our favourite bloggers.
- Using our web browser’s history to locate the URLs of our favourite bloggers.
Please feel free to let me know which method you would use the day that the WordPress Reader stops working.
And, thank you for reading!
Technical Master 
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