Comments on: Bloglines Issues

By: Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:09:45 +0000

I ended up switching to Google Reader myself and haven’t looked back. I don’t know if things have gotten any better.

By: bill weaver

bill weaver — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:25:05 +0000

Are you still seeing this problem? I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader because of this problem but am trying BL again today. Same thing. Experimenting a bit... http://techrageo.us/rss shows as updated 4/11/07 http://techrageo.us/feed (and /atom) shows as updated 6/28/07 I appreciate the tip about adding the bloglines ping to WP, but that seems backwards. If Blogline's users are telling them they want to read a feed, shouldn't BL automatically go fetch the feed? Cache it sure, but if BL claims hourly updates, they should provide them.

By: Jennifer Macaulay

Jennifer Macaulay — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:09:19 +0000

Thanks for the update about trying to add the URL to WordPress pings. I was hoping that would work. I do think this problem has become worse over the past week. One of the more frustrating things is that it doesn’t seem to be consistent. The only pattern I can see (with my own blog because I know when I published a post) is that I often find it is worse with new posts added during evening hours. Often when I add a post in the morning (EDT), it shows up quicker. I’m definitely going to investigate other reader options.

By: Maxine

Maxine — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:23:30 +0000

I use bloglines daily and I have not noticed this problem routinely. Sometimes a particular blog’s feed seems affected (not very often). Since the bloglines upgrade the tree refreshes in real time, so posts seem to come through. I subscribe to my own blogs in bloglines and it is true that sometimes posts don’t come through for a few hours, but I have never known one not come through at all. (I have about 5 blogs, plus a “clippings” blog).
I do find Technorati very slow apart from on Word[ress, though — I see you are on Wordpress so you may not have noticed this. my main blog is on typepad and even though i use the auto-feedburner ping, my technorati page is not updated for days, even weeks at a time unless I ping manually — and even then it sometimes takes a few days more to update. Same for my Blogger blogs.

By: Ab

Ab — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:43:13 +0000

I have been using NewsGator for a couple of months for this very reason. Although I miss some of Bloglines’ features, I’m generally happy with NewsGator and will probably stick with it, while keeping an eye on Bloglines occasionally.

By: joshua m. neff

joshua m. neff — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:03:27 +0000

My blog has updated really slowly on Bloglines, too. And yeah, it’s been happening more recently than it used to.

By: Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:41:30 +0000

It’s weird, because I can remember just a few months ago, my blog posts were showing up in Bloglines right away (within 20 minutes), but there was a time before that when it took a long time for them to show up and I was getting fed up with bloglines. I guess if it was consistent, I could understand better if it was a problem on my side of things. I use Ping-o-matic which does ping Bloglines (according to them), but I just added Bloglines’ own ping service to the group that Wordpress will ping automatically when I post. Hopefully that will do it though I won’t hold my breath.

Thanks, Ken, for the tip! Your explanation sounds very plausible to me.

By: dave free

dave free — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:27:30 +0000

I’ve definitely noticed this too. I’ve been posting more than usual due to IL and they’ve been very slow to show up. And other folks asked me why I wasn’t blogging from conference, so its not just me. Same thing is happening today with a podcast I edit and monitor through Bloglines. Posted a good bit ago today, shows up fine in Feedburner feed but nothing in Bloglines.

By: Jennifer Macaulay

Jennifer Macaulay — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:06:20 +0000

I feel slightly better that this is a problem that others are experiencing. Unfortunately, the problem doesn’t seem consistent – which is one reason why I waited before mentioning it. Since Friday, I have been paying better attention to the problem – because I am getting more frustrated. I think I will also send Bloglines and email. Technology is wonderful when it works correctly – and absolutely insidious when it does not!!!

By: GeekChic

GeekChic — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:23:13 +0000

Hi Meredith: I noticed this problem with Bloglines several months ago. A number of feeds updated really slowly and some simply stopped updating. If I recall correctly, your blog was one of the ones that updated really slowly. It was enough to drive me nuts and I finally gave up on my Bloglines account. I now use Newsgator and haven’t seen similar problems yet. Newsgator’s web client is free, you have to pay for their desktop client. Hope you get an answer from Bloglines.