That’s it – I’m firing bloglines as my feed reader. I hope the rest of my readers will follow suit, at least until the bloglines people fix whatever is buggering up their service. Of course, by the time any bloglines subscribers actually get this post of mine, it’ll likely be 2012 and blogs will be so 2005 and it won’t matter anymore. Bloglines hasn’t grabbed my feed since 10:51 last night. I posted at around 11:30 this morning. I think nearly 5 hours is MORE than enough time to acknowledge an updated feed.
And it’s not just my feed. Most of the sites I read take the better part of an hour (and it’s only been getting worse!) before they show as updated on bloglines. There are also feeds it refuses to acknowledge, even though they’re perfectly valid in other readers (my.yahoo.com for example).
So I’m currently taking recommendations for other free, web-based feed readers. Does anyone have any suggestions? Because bloglines isn’t cutting it for me anymore. I may as well just go back to gasp plain old Blogrolling!
(edit: just FYI this was posted at 4:26pm. about 2.25 hours before it registered as being updated on bloglines, and another hour+ before any readers found it and bothered to comment)
heh, I like blogrolling. I don’t post my “sites that I read” list on my front page, but I’ve got my special little start page that I go to when I open my browser, and blogroll works pretty darn good for it. 🙂
Sure, sometimes pinging doesn’t go through for whatever reason, but whatever. I still check the non-pinged sites relatively frequently this way, because I like seeing if anyone has commented on an old post as well..
That explains why you’re the only one who comments anymore ;p not that i’m complaining!
I’m aching to find a bloglines replacement, too, so please let me know if you find a decent one.
I would use blogrolling, but I hate trying to remember which blogs I’ve read recently (I read a lot more than I publish on my website).
PS: Bloglines just showed you as being updated, for me, which is how I found this post. Go Bloglines, go.
That’s ironic, because I just read this entry in Bloglines.
yes. I comment because I’m OBSESSIVE AND NEUROTIC! Hey, it’s good for the soul. Or something.
I just found out that I’ve missed several WEEKS of posts on one friend’s blog, including the announcement of her pregnancy. I emailed Bloglines letting them know how disappointed I am, and I’m switching back to Blogrolling as soon as I have time. The whole point of Bloglines was to ensure I didn’t miss anything new, and the opposite has proven to be true.
Hmm. I’m going to post this on my own weblog, I think.