Movin’ On
Posted by pete on December 21st, 2006
I’ve been growing slowly frustrated with Bloglines and its limitations, especially with respect to its speed, spotty handling of entry graphics, lost saved entries, and only storing 200 entries per feed. Once the magic 200 entries have been received, all the other new ones are dropped. At least give me the option to keep the 200 most recent entries; use a first-in first-out queue. I’ve also seen my share of entries pointing to a blank space where a picture should be.
Over the past few months, I’ve read about people liking Google Reader, but every time I’ve tried it, it’s been an unsatisfying experience. The latest updates along with my mounting frustration with Bloglines, though, have gotten me to mostly switch. There are a few entries in Bloglines that I’ve got saved to read, but beyond those, I’m doing all of my feed reading at Google Reader now.
Now, if only they’d add a feature that would sort your feeds in ascending chronological order instead of the default descending chronological order, I think I’d be completely (vs. mostly) happy with Google Reader.
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December 21st, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Actually, we just added support for reading feeds and folders oldest-first:
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2006/12/dwelling-on-past.html
Hope you’re enjoying Reader.
Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer
December 21st, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Sweet! Thanks for the info. Even more reasons to like Reader now. Anyway to make this change across all feeds or do I have to do it on a feed-by-feed basis?
Thanks.
December 21st, 2006 at 10:08 pm
As of right now it’s on a feed-by-feed (or folder-by-folder) basis.
Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:37 am
Thanks for the info, Mihal. Keep up the good work with GR.