Hello, Bloglines? Tap, tap, tap. Anyone there?

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According to Feedburner, 1217 people are subscribed to this site via RSS (thank you very much!). Of that number, 328 use Bloglines. Unfortunately, you Bloglines users are getting a subpar experience, because Bloglines regularly, for no apparent reason, decides to stop picking up this feed. In fact, if you read this site via Bloglines, you probably think I haven’t posted anything since yesterday at 1:37 pm (MDT), even though this is post #4 since that time. I have no idea when you will actually see this post

Bloglines seems to do this regularly. As Feedburner recommended, I sent an e-mail to Bloglines Support asking them to please kick-start my feed, but I really shouldn’t have to do that.

Is anyone at Bloglines listening? This seems to be a downward spiral in quality. Is it growing pains? Was being acquired by Ask Jeeves a bad deal for Bloglines users? Is the fact that Bloglines is now a tiny cog in the giant IAC/InterActive Corp. relevant to this discussion? Any other folks with Bloglines stories to tell?

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2 thoughts on “Hello, Bloglines? Tap, tap, tap. Anyone there?”

  1. I just started using Bloglines and noticed this too… very frustrating, especially because it’s even happened for such huge profile feeds like Slashdot (took me the whole day just to get feeds from 9am). I really hope this stops sometime soon!

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