Comments on: Goodbye Bloglines…

By: Richard Loerakker

Richard Loerakker — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:16:51 +0000

And now Bloglines is officially declared dead. That took a while.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:20:05 +0000

I’m switching over now too. Too many errors. Goodbye Bloglines!

By: Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:07:31 +0000

Since moving to Google Reader a month or so ago I haven’t regretted it much. I’d still prefer being able to use my PDA offline and not in a web page but I’ll live with that to have a better newsreader.

By: MAS

MAS — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:48:35 +0000

I came to the same conclusion you did. After being on Bloglines for years, I moved over to Google Reader. It was the poor performance of Bloglines that forced me to move.

By: Ryan Pitts

Ryan Pitts — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:29:14 +0000

“One of the reasons I didn’t switch earlier was that I like Bloglines’ style of marking everything as read as soon as I click a feed and then allowing me to mark all as unread easily if I need to.”

Count me as a Bloglines user who’s refused to switch for precisely this same reason. Still hanging on, but by a thread that’s getting thinner.

By: Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:39:13 +0000

So, I loved Bloglines, but it got flaky.

At the time, Google reader was still too new and didn’t do the same as Bloglines.

Also, I read on my Windows Mobile smartphone as much if not more than I read in a browser.

My solution then was Newsgator, which provided a web interface as well as a Windows Mobile native application that I could run offline by downloading articles while I was online.

Except, of course, that a new version of the mobile client requires you to be online to read the articles. And, of course, it takes up bunches of RAM and crashes on occasion or just locks up requiring a reboot.

So, does anyone know of a way to read offline and online in such a way that what you read offline updates so you don’t have to read items twice?

By: Jim Moran

Jim Moran — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:37:02 +0000

Further to my last comment (#31) – it appears not.

I’ve been using Google Reader for a couple of weeks now and overall I’m pretty impressed – no more feeds coming back from the “read”, some great shortcut keys, etc. However, the never ending scrollbar irks me – I can keep scrolling down and down and down… this isn’t how scrollbars work, Google developers!

Anyway, a minor point really, I’m sticking with it.

By: Dan Almasy

Dan Almasy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:26:45 +0000

I don’t know if I’d say that the iPhone version of Google Reader is a “joy” to use. It certainly doesn’t come close to trumping the desktop version.

I’ve always used Google Reader though, ever since I found out about RSS it really has changed the way I surf.

I will say I still hate the most recent re-design of Reader. It was fine before :)

By: Jim Moran

Jim Moran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:21:10 +0000

Thanks Scott – totally missed that drop down. Any usability testers at Google? :)

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:50:38 +0000

Jim:

Click the little down arrow beside “Subscriptions” in the left pane (the “_” icon is beside the down arrow). Then choose “Show Updated” to only show feeds with new posts.

By: Jim Moran

Jim Moran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:20:36 +0000

The only thing stopping me from making the change is that I can’t seem to find the equivalent of “show unread feeds only” in Google reader. Anyone got any ideas?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:41:18 +0000

never look back. J&K all the way. I organize everything into tiered folders and make my way through via chronological order. I made the switch from beta.bloglines.com after too much downtime. Now with shared items, email notes, and easy keyboard shortcuts I am very happy.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:01:48 +0000

Rich: Interesting folklore about the J and K keys!

Lincoln: Thanks for the reminder. Fixed!

Rick: Thanks for the heads-up. Also fixed.

By: DAn

DAn — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:52:24 +0000

I also jumped ship on Bloglines a few months back. I didn’t want to switch to Google Reader but it was highly recommended and now I’m glad that I did, Reader “just works” something Bloglines couldn’t seem to figure out.

By: Richard Loerakker

Richard Loerakker — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:48:57 +0000

I also made the switch from Bloglines to Google Reader. It looks like Bloglines is an abandoned products and Ask.com doesn’t make any effort to keep it alive.

http://www.loerakker.org/2008/12/signs-that-bloglines-is-fucked.php