Comments on: The Bloglines problem: My current solution

By: walt

walt — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:25:18 +0000

Of the 43 problematic feeds, only two still show as problems (and one of those is, I believe, legitimately fouled up.)

So yes, Bloglines fixed (almost) all of the problems. It deserves a followup post, which I’ll do.

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:21:08 +0000

How are your feeds today? I received an acknowledgment from Bloglines about my inquiry into this problem, though no resolution was offered. Today, my own feed is working for the first time in some time, and other feeds that were broken are working. Perhaps Bloglines made an adjustment?

By: walt

walt — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:17:33 +0000

Possibly–but with OAN, I’d been subscribed for a LONG time, and it suddenly started showing errors. Such is life.

By: libwitch

libwitch — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:19:21 +0000

I wonder if it is simply a matter of what feed you subscribe to using Bloglines? I am subscribing to OA News via Bloglines with no problems. But when I notice that problem indicator, I often find switching the feed fixes the problem.

By: Jon Gomran

Jon Gomran — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:06:49 +0000

Sadly, although I like bloglines, lately I’ve just switched over to Google Reader. I’ve been having problems repeatedly crop up with bloglines, whether it’s a blog in particular, getting weird warning messages, or just having it act weird. I’m actually not that huge of a fan of some of the elements in both the “bloglines beta” and google reader. (Something about having to scroll over something to note it as “read” just bothers me.)

I don’t have the patience for two readers.

(Ideally I’d have something more like a desktop client, but the record of what I’ve already read is kept track in some way I can access it from multiple machines).

By: John

John — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:32:38 +0000

I have noticed the problem with Bloglines too, my blog being one of the affected feeds. I contacted Bloglines about the problem, pointing them to your previous post too. No reply.

I found some older support posts at WordPress, indicating a problem with WordPress and Bloglines, but I don’t think this is the same problem here. Some people who I know are using WordPress (e.g., Off the Mark, you too I think) are not having problems.

The only other thing I can think of is that Bloglines has their new beta reader. Why this would cause a problem with some feeds and not others is anyone’s guess, but maybe something is going on in the background.

By: walt

walt — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:24:01 +0000

adam: That’s a multistep process, and I don’t believe I’m at the point yet of going to a more complex situation.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:44:19 +0000

Did you try the firefox plugin? I don’t know the name, but it uses google reader subscriptions and dumps them into a firefox based client.

Maybe this would solve the formatting issues you have with google.