Blo.gs, You Used To Be My Friend
I have had an account at blo.gs for quite some time now. I’m not sure if it is any indication, but my account number is in the low 4000’s and they have 16,000 accounts signed up right now.
Anyway, when they were independent, life was grand. I had my favorites list set as my homepage, quietly letting me know when some of my favorite sites had updated. Yes, I used RSS during this time, but some times I just wanted to see what Dave had to say that was new, or if Jon had anything especially insightful in his latest post. I wanted to do this without also updating my other 300 RSS feeds in my newsreader.
Since the Yahoo! buyout, I have noticed the quality of the blo.gs service steadily going downhill. Sites would show up as updated, even though they haven’t been touched in almost a year. Sites show up with incosistent names (Asterisk, Asterisk2, etc.), and sometimes they show up as updated because a comment was updated.
It has really just become a waste of my time to rely on it for accurate updates and have decided to drop it. I am looking for something else I can replace my homepage with. I like having something that informs me because it is often the page I see the most of everyday.
Anyone have any ideas?
November 3rd, 2005
I’ve used other website aggregators/RSS feed readers in the past, but the one I’m staying with now is Bloglines. It’s been reliable (for the most part) and the developers are good about implementing new features.
November 4th, 2005
I always add the blog back to Combloggerator and then start receiving emails on a very consistent basis that the RSS feed is unavailable. When that repeats for a couple of days I remove it since my system errors and delays when it cannot find a feed. Sorry about that, any idea why the feeds is always down?
I have added this blog again, will drop a comment here if it continues to be unavailable.
November 4th, 2005
I just looked, right now your feed is unavailable to Combloggerator as well as HTTP using the link at the bottom of the blog.
November 15th, 2005
Jeremy, I feel your pain, I too used to be a happy blo.gs user until they spliced in some ad feeds I didn’t subscribe to, which I thought was too shady so I cancelled my service. I have yet to find a decent replacement for their service, everything else just seems overkill, but for now I’m going back and forth between Google Reader and Bloglines some aspects of both that I like, still trying to figure out which one will come out the winner.