Comments on: Giving up on Bloglines http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/2005/05/23/giving-up-on-bloglines/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:51:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Random Developments » Google Reader http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/2005/05/23/giving-up-on-bloglines/#comment-3009 Random Developments » Google Reader Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:34:02 +0000 http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/?p=141#comment-3009 [...] Quite a while ago, I wrote about my disappointment with Bloglines (in a post that actually got a few responses from their team) and, later, with stand-alone feed readers. In the end, after using Omea Reader for a while, I ended up gravitating back to Bloglines (especially after I moved to Linux on my desktop machine) and stayed happily there (but always wondering about possible missing posts…). [...] [...] Quite a while ago, I wrote about my disappointment with Bloglines (in a post that actually got a few responses from their team) and, later, with stand-alone feed readers. In the end, after using Omea Reader for a while, I ended up gravitating back to Bloglines (especially after I moved to Linux on my desktop machine) and stayed happily there (but always wondering about possible missing posts…). [...]

]]> By: Mark Fletcher http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/2005/05/23/giving-up-on-bloglines/#comment-28 Mark Fletcher Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/?p=141#comment-28 I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Bloglines. I did some investigating, and it appears that your server is blocking one of our crawlers. We operate 3 crawling machines, and the one at IP address 216.148.212.182 can't access your site. That explains why one of your feeds hasn't been updating. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. I’m sorry to hear about your experience with Bloglines. I did some investigating, and it appears that your server is blocking one of our crawlers. We operate 3 crawling machines, and the one at IP address 216.148.212.182 can’t access your site. That explains why one of your feeds hasn’t been updating.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.

]]> By: Mark Fletcher http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/2005/05/23/giving-up-on-bloglines/#comment-29 Mark Fletcher Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/?p=141#comment-29 Hmm, I never received the email. Can you send it again, to markf (at) bloglines.com? Thanks. Hmm, I never received the email. Can you send it again, to markf (at) bloglines.com? Thanks.

]]> By: Wilson http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/2005/05/23/giving-up-on-bloglines/#comment-30 Wilson Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.netwhatever.com/randomdev/?p=141#comment-30 Mark, it seems my e-mails are not getting through to you. I wonder if Bloglines has connectivity issues, or if it is just an over-zealous anti-spam system. The messages are handed to your server correctly, as far as I can see. In any case, here's what I wrote: Thanks for your contact. About what you said: "I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Bloglines. I did some investigating, and it appears that your server is blocking one of our crawlers. We operate 3 crawling machines, and the one at IP address 216.148.212.182 can't access your site. That explains why one of your feeds hasn't been updating." That's really strange. I'm certainly not blocking any hosts, and I will take this matter to my hosting provider. Indeed, the only requests I see in my logs come from 216.148.212.188 and 216.148.212.187. Regarding the other issue, one of the feeds where I noticed missing articles is http://www.guru-international.com/gday_mate/atom.xml ; the articles entitled "Fortune of the Day", still listed in the atom.xml file, do not show up on Bloglines, even when I select the "Display items within the last month" option. I'm not sure if this is related to having several articles with the same title or not. Also, a common, recurring issue is to have the left-hand bar showing a feed as having, say, 3 unread articles, and seeing only two articles when I click on it. This happens quite consistently with the feed http://www.havesometea.net/MadTeaParty/atom.xml. I don't know which information is correct (two or three new articles), but it isn't very reassuring... Again, thanks for your comment. I really like Bloglines (as I said, I don't think any other online reader comes close to it in usability, and I don't think too highly of the desktop clients either), and I would like it to be reliable at all times. Regards, -Wilson Mark, it seems my e-mails are not getting through to you. I wonder if Bloglines has connectivity issues, or if it is just an over-zealous anti-spam system. The messages are handed to your server correctly, as far as I can see. In any case, here’s what I wrote:

Thanks for your contact. About what you said:

“I’m sorry to hear about your experience with Bloglines. I did some investigating, and it appears that your server is blocking one of our crawlers. We operate 3 crawling machines, and the one at IP address 216.148.212.182 can’t access your site. That explains why one of your feeds hasn’t been updating.”

That’s really strange. I’m certainly not blocking any hosts, and I will take this matter to my hosting provider. Indeed, the only requests I see in my logs come from 216.148.212.188 and 216.148.212.187.

Regarding the other issue, one of the feeds where I noticed missing articles is http://www.guru-international.com/gday_mate/atom.xml ; the articles entitled “Fortune of the Day”, still listed in the atom.xml file, do not show up on Bloglines, even when I select the “Display items within the last month” option. I’m not sure if this is related to having several articles with the same title or not.

Also, a common, recurring issue is to have the left-hand bar showing a feed as having, say, 3 unread articles, and seeing only two articles when I click on it. This happens quite consistently with the feed http://www.havesometea.net/MadTeaParty/atom.xml. I don’t know which information is correct (two or three new articles), but it isn’t very reassuring…

Again, thanks for your comment. I really like Bloglines (as I said, I don’t think any other online reader comes close to it in usability, and I don’t think too highly of the desktop clients either), and I would like it to be reliable at all times.

Regards,

-Wilson

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