Bloglines Offline And Offshore
I think most people will agree that Bloglines has been dead for sometime now. What with Google Reader, amongst other web based solutions NOT being outsourced to China available to the web’s users, there is really very little reason to tolerate what Bloglines has allowed their service to become.
Based on what I am seeing here from this article, bloglines has been dealt what some are calling a real death blow. Downtime for hours with zero notice, even worse, no real idea of whether or not this is going to become an ongoing problem.
But what about those folks who have huge OPMLs still remaining? Might be wise to get an export going now while it is still possible. I mean, who knows when Bloglines is going to be down again for days at a time. Just saying…
4 Comments
Bryan Price
May 11th, 2009
at 11:23pm
I have a comment there, so I won’t repeat my min-rant here.
But I will say, I haven’t found anything that works any better for me yet. I wish they would fix a few things, like getting some working feeds reset from the error condition. beta.bloglines.com works too much like GR for me to even begin to think about it.
If it goes, I will mourn it.
Meanwhile, I am backing up my OPML file on a regular basis.
Pedro Remedios
May 12th, 2009
at 4:38am
Just the other day, I exported my Bloglines list so I’m safe :P
TJ
May 12th, 2009
at 5:09am
I use beta.bloglines.com and I haven’t found anything that matches it yet. I know Bryan thinks it’s too much like Google Reader, but the shortcut keys on Bloglines is awesome. I can use the J key and get through every one of my new listings (300 total feeds). I can not stand all the mutli-keyed shortcuts Google Reader has.
I’ve felt the pain of the outages and it’s funny this post arrived when it did. In the past two weeks, I’ve tried GR for the tenth time, tried netvibes, tried newsgator/feeddemon which is what I originally started on back in the day.
I keep going back to bloglines!
Fred
May 13th, 2009
at 3:53pm
I love Bloglines and I love Lockergnome, have for years. S**t happens. Both are required reading to stay ahead on what s going on anywhere in the IT world and others.