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Bloglines: Still Sucky After All These Years

Apparently, Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher replied to June Oshiro’s blog regarding their broken feed reader. June hits the nail on the head with her reply:
But Mark! You don’t address the second fundamental problem. I find this ironic and indicative of the whole issue - I complain that customer support is virtually non-existent, and you seem [...]

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Why Bloglines Sucks

OK, after getting some helpful comments on my earlier post, mostly by a pMachines programmer (along with a somewhat more passive aggressive but at least marginally helpful post from somebody at Bloglines), I think I’m beginning to understand the problem. The short version is that there is something wrong with my blog feed but the [...]

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Well, Shut My Mouth! Bloglines Feed Is Fixed

Update: According to a comment just posted by a Bloglines employee, the feed is not actually fixed yet. They blame it on my ISP’s header support, which I’ll look into, though I don’t understand why Bloglines is the only aggregator that has this problem.
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Naturally, they fix the feed just as I’m flogging them. (Not that [...]

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Bloglines Still Sucks (Three Months and Counting…)

Yup, the Bloglines feed for e-Literate is still broken after three months. Yup, I’ve sent them multiple emails letting them know that the feed is still broken. Yup, I even let them know (in pretty blunt terms) that I was letting my readers know about the problem. (My experience with other web service providers is [...]

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Don’t Use Bloglines

I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to post this, but it seems to be my only recourse at this point.
Apparently, the Bloglines aggregator stopped updating my feed several months ago. I had no idea that this was happening; nor did my readers who subscribe through Bloglines. As far as they knew, I just wasn’t [...]

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