Buhbye, Bloglines
Hellooooo Newsgator. Bloglines is having all sorts of problems and I’m missing out on bunches of people’s feeds (not just my own) because of some scripting error that’s not showing feeds as updated. After getting no help from their tech support, I’m leaving.
Newsgator it is. My feeds are showing up perfectly there. If you’re using a browser based reader, Newsgator is now Grumpy’s officially recommended one. Now I need to get those bitches to pay me for my rec. there is no official rec. Newsgator only stores the current feeds, so if, for example, a high traffic site posts 100 messages/day but only keeps 25 in the active feed and you only check once/day, you’re going to miss out on a boatload of posts. That sucks. The only way around it in Newsgator is to “view older posts” and then you’re in a horrible cumbersome mess. I’m talking about the web version here, of course. Their solution is to get you to use a local client… which defeats the whole purpose of using a web rss reader. Bloglines kicks their ass here.
Guess I’ll go back to looking… I’ll update when I’ve got an official rec, I guess.
Wow, exciting stuff, I know.
Update: they all suck in certain ways. If Bloglines actually worked, it would be the best. It doesn’t though, so it isn’t. Pluck’s too awkward, Newsgator doesn’t store more than the default server # of feeds, rojo’s too ungainly, and all the rest are all deficient in even greater ways. Blech. F U, technology!
