Bloglines is down again tonight.
And that’s not all. Bloglines seems to be in a general state of decline. Other RSS readers (Rojo, Yahoo, Attensa, BlogBridge, tons more) are innovating and gaining users at Bloglines’ expense. No new features worth mentioning. I hate to see a service I love fade like this.
This didn’t happen to Flickr after the Yahoo acquisition. It isn’t inevitable that a startup loses its focus when acquired by a larger company.
I had just gone back to bloglines from rojo because I was getting tired of the technical issues with rojo. I guess it is back to rojo for me.
I switched from Bloglines back to NetNewswire. It’s amazing how much content I seemed to miss with it.
related: Whither FeedLounge? [1]
[1] http://feedlounge.com/
Yes – it’s really gone downhill. Anyone tried NewsAlloy? The Rojo interface turned me off for some reason.
I’m really excited to try FeedLounge when it comes out of alpha. In the meantime, I moved from bloglines to http://www.gregarius.net – an open source aggregator. Gregarius has a variety of plugins and themes so you can customize your aggregation experience.
is anyone else using searchfox? i wen fromg bloglines to feeddemon to searchfox.
Derek,
I’ve been using it for a few months now, and love it. I just wish they’d provide more updates. I actually just wrote about it… you should see a trackback here soon.
Best,
Luis
Bloglines does not evolve. I switch to http://www.gregarius.net some month ago. it’s an OS software. The UI is very friendly and WEB2.0
Bloglines suck. Nice to see it die.
I agree with u on that mike but its very irritating when flickr does that on you esp when you are paying!
http://vinu-rebuild.blogspot.com/2005/12/fun-at-bloglines.html
Actually, according to Alexa, Bloglines is growing (a lot in December) whereas Rojo, at least, is shrinking.
hmm i think searchfox needs to push their project hard now before attensa launches to take advantage of this kind of problem
I don’t use searchfox because it won’t let me import my google news search feeds from rojo.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I agree that Bloglines has gone to hell. It’s screwing up and showing “new” posts when there aren’t any. Totally hosed. WTF? And there’s a total lack of new stuff, integration with other services, and other improvements.
And I don’t care if they say Bloglines is growing. That’s just because it’s feeding off it’s past rep.
I use Searchfox now exclusively. I when from Onfolio to Blogbridge to SearchFox.
it’s not the fault of Rojo, but Google’s, because they send an error 403 if you use the default UserAgent in java. A simple fix is to change the user Agent of the aggregator.
I hear this every few weeks, and I imagine I will continue to hear it. Even though I agree with many of these statements, I still use Bloglines everyday, just as much as email. Bottomline, no other web based reader does it good enough for me to switch, so until they do Bloglines is my reader of choice.
I also switched from Bloglines to Rojo after it took far too many emails, patience and time with Bloglines’ “support”, to delete old feeds and reindex my blog’s feeds.
Remembering this nice article here http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/has_bloglines_d.php there where a lot of suggestions for Bloglines – and what did they do? Nothing. Ok, keyboard shortcuts, while people wanted tags, the ability to post to their own blogs, full text search, etc…
This would have been a good opportunity for rojo but they are currently down.
It would be okay with me if Bloglines stayed the same as long as it were reliable. For the past week I’ve suspected that the feeds weren’t working right and some tests last night prove it.
I’m liking Microsoft’s Live.com beta. It was really easy for me to add feeds and so far they’ve been pretty reliable…I may make a switch all the way over to theirs if Bloglines doesn’t fix their feeds so that I can rely on them.
this is sad b/c i too am a loyal bloglines user but their inadequacies might force me to switch when i re-evaluate the feeds i want to keep. happy scrubbing your xml feeds y’all…
I’ve just started having this problem where Bloglines isn’t showing that there are new posts to read even though there are. In fact, this feed hasn’t shown up with anything new to read until today and you posted this almost a week ago. I’m getting more and more tempted to try something else.
All the desktop aggregators are fine, but I need a web-based solution. I don’t like the way Rojo or SearchFox works or any of the other web solutions I’ve found (though NewsAlloy *might* be OK) – I keep on using bloglines and I haven’t had any troubles with feeds or reliability. There are a mmillion ways I would improve it, but nothing yet comes close to the convenience.