Bloglines is broken
So, after I complained yesterday about Bloglines not updating itself, I started keeping an eye on the spider. After taking almost all of Thursday off (including the entire business day on both coasts), it woke up around just before midnight last night, and it came back a few times early this morning. But then the Bloglines spider apparently decided to take the rest of the day off, because it hasn’t been back in nearly seven hours.
A commenter on the previous thread notes that he is experiencing the same problem with the Slashdot feed.
Most blogs, including this one, thrive on a sense of immediacy. Indeed, using NewsGator I get updates at least once an hour, which means I can stay on top of breaking news. If Bloglines just starts ignoring some feeds for hours or days at a time, it’s broken. If it keeps doing that, it’s time to be replaced.
Isn’t it strange that no one from Bloglines has noticed this post and reacted to it? You’d think a company at the center of the blogosphere would be tuned in to reports of problems like this. Unless the priorities from the new corporate masters were taking them away from this core business. You know what I mean?
I used to experience Bloglines not picking up new posts on feeds all too often. I used to think that the feeds were broken.
Since I have switched to NewsGator, I have not experienced this once or at the very least on the feeds that I know are updated daily (i.e. slashdot)
Maybe they are using Bloglines to monitor things?
*ducks*