I started using Bloglines in early 2004 to read feeds. Despite the rise of Google Reader I stuck with Bloglines, which had that well broken in feeling after using it for so long. I put up with the occasional outage and semi-regular bugs because most of the time it worked well enough.
This month I finally decided it was time to retire my Bloglines account and move over to Google Reader. The comfort of sticking with a service that I’d known and loved for so long was finally over come by feeds that were way behind, bugs that made it impossible to use at times and outages that took the service completely offline.
That isn’t to say that Google Reader is perfect, there are some things that I’d like to have changed. I will often quickly scan through new items via the ‘All Items’ view (using the keyboard short cuts), but find it is really annoying that I can’t unsubscribe from a feed from there. Instead I have to view just that feed and then I get the unsubscribe option.
Good bye Bloglines, you served me well, but the time has come for us to part ways. Oh and by the way, I never did get my I Love Bloglines shirt.
2 replies on “Leaving Bloglines For Google Reader”
Thank you for writing this.
I felt the EXACT same way when I abandoned Bloglines in favor of Google Reader. I didn’t particularly care for the usability of Google Reader, but I just couldn’t deal with the frustrations of Bloglines anymore.
I do not understand Bloglines. I have been begging them for a verification email for months – at least 3 requests. What do I get? Bupkus. I have therefore sent two requests to Customer Service asking for a verification email. What have I gotten so far? Bupkus. I am going to suggest that they send it to me by carrier pigeon. That is, if I ever hear from them. (And yes, i did enter the correct email address.)