Dear “Bloglines”:http://bloglines.com/ –
No, I don’t have 1,350 unread items in my daily folder. I’ve read all of those already. The first time you suggested that I did, I reread all 1,350 of them. The second and third times I thought you were just trying to be certain. The fourth and fifth times you brought it up I thought you were being funny. Now this is just ridiculous.
(Actually, Bloglines claims I have 1,414 items in my Daily folder that are unread. But I decided to clear out a few of my subscriptions before taking a screenshot. A guy can’t give away all of his secrets.)
Further more, Bloglines claims I have 11,032 items in all of my folders that have not been read. That’s absurd.
I’ll continue to deal with this digging for gold to find interesting nuggets through today, but if it’s not cleared up by this evening, I’m going to find another RSS reader. I’m very tired of the problems Bloglines has been having lately.
I’ve been having issues with it as well. I’m pretty fed up with their problems, but I like their interface the best out of all of the online aggregators. I tried newsgator, but last I checked, it was very slow. Most of the other ones had annoying UI issues as well.
I gave up on Bloglines too but haven’t found a replacement yet.
RevJim (& Bethany),
We’re sorry about the disruption to your daily Bloglines reading. The bug released last night that caused the problem was fixed but you may see wacky unread counts until you click on the subscription or folder name. You can reset ‘em all at once by clicking the “Mark All Read” link at the top of your feed list. Thanks for using Bloglines and let us know if you experience any other problems.
http://www.bloglines.com/contact
Robyn DeuPree
Bloglines Product Manager
I gave up on Bloglines a few months ago (after it didn’t download about half my feeds for three days) and have been happily using GreatNews (http://www.curiostudio.com/) since then. As I get a lot of image feeds from Flickr, it is not ideal for me to work in the standard 3 pane mode offered by most readers. I much prefer the two pane newspaper style, like Bloglines has. GreatNews is the only desktop aggregator I know of that supports this, and what’s more supports it better than BlogLines. The pages load more quickly (because you can set your preferred page length) and the silly 200 unread item limit that Bloglines has is just a memory. Furthermore it’s small and self-contained. After installing it I simply copied the whole install folder to my USB thumb drive and can run the same copy from home, work or wherever else I happen to get on the net. Oh and the other nice feature of GreatNews? Like Bloglines, it’s free.