Bloglines is Annoying
I started out as a huge Bloglines fan. I use it throughout the day to get the latest articles and posts from all of the sites that I like…roughly 300 as of today. I used to think it was a really helpful aggregator that saved me time and kept me up to date with the latest info. When I load it up it shows me all of the sites I’ve saved and highlights those with new content, showing me how many new articles or posts there are to view on the site.
But, lately it is starting to piss me off.
More and more I’ll click to view new posts and all I see is the same old shit I’ve already read and seen at least once if not twice. I don’t know if the feed owner is specifying that the post has been updated or if its a Bloglines bug, but it wastes my time as I have to sift through old posts to get to the good stuff. Look, if I’ve already clicked on a highlighted site and viewed the NEW articles they should not be highlighted again, or at least not in the same way. This appears to be a relatively new issue…or maybe it’s just happening more frequently now.
Anyone else having this problem? Know of a solution? Is it time for me to switch aggregators?
June 19th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I know exactly what you’re talking about!
There’s a setting you can change on a per-feed basis that tells Bloglines what to do with “updated” items in the feed (and someone told me that “updated” even includes new comments… depending on how the site is set up). I went through my 300+ feeds and set ALL of them to ignore updated feeds.
But it didn’t work. I still see the same stuff multiple times during the day. So I’ve switched back to Google Reader. It’s not as quick to update with new content as Bloglines, but there isn’t a duplicate content issue, either. So for me, it was a toss-up between seeing updates faster or digging through a crapload of duplicate content.
June 19th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Thanks Derick.
I’ll try to update my feeds so it ignores the updated items, but that is going to be a time suck if I have to do it one-by-one.
Are you happy with Google Reader? How much of a delay is there?