Kicked To The Curb
I’d been using Bloglines for my online feed reading for quite a while. I have Macs at home (so I had bought NetNewsWire), but a Linux system at work, and there was no cross-platform feed reader that really suited me. So I went web-based, and at the time, Bloglines seemed like the best one.
However, Bloglines has been getting crappier and crappier as time has gone on. Eventually, I got frustrated to the point of doing something. I downloaded a new version of NetNewsWire on Holly’s laptop (she doesn’t care about reading feeds from more than one place, so a standalone app is fine for her), and saw that there was new sync stuff in NNW 2.1. Digging further, I found that since NNW was bought by NewsGator, they were offering sync to the NetNewsWire online feed reader.
I played with it and liked it well enough to make the switch. I can use NNW on my Macs at home, use the web-based one on the Linux box, and my subscriptions and read counters stay in sync between all of them.
Goodbye, Bloglines.
on May 19th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
I haven’t had any problems with bloglines but I don’t do much besides read.