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December 18, 2005
Bloglines
Have you seen this? To quote:
"We Feel Your Pain
We're not going to beat around the bush about this. Bloglines performance has sucked eggs lately. [emphasis mine] Why? In short, Bloglines has been busting at the seams like the Incredible Hulk.
All of us here at Bloglines have been foregoing sleep and social lives over the past several months to keep Bloglines running and preparing for our move to a new access center (with bigger britches and a very elastic waistline).
So hang tight because there's a light at the end of the tunnel. The move will happen soon; we'll keep you posted.
- The Bloglines Team Wed, 15 Dec 2005 7:00:00 PST"
There's a scheduled outage for tomorrow. The timeline is in the link above. What do you think? I'm all for companies stepping up when things go bad - I mean, nothing is perfect and shit happens. For pete's sakes - it's FREE, so how much can we really expect? I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and crossing my fingers things will improve. I'll also be blogging way early tomorrow, even though I doubt an update will come. ;-)
Posted by Cara at December 18, 2005 07:26 PM
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Comments
Don't worry, Cara! People in the know ditched Bloglines a long time ago and will see your update without a problem ;) :).
Posted by: grumperina at December 18, 2005 08:51 PM
Yeah, I hear Newsgater (sp?) is where it's at these days....
Posted by: Mary at December 18, 2005 08:58 PM
If people keep leaving Bloglines at the rate I think they've been, they're not going to need to make that move ;o)
Posted by: Jess at December 18, 2005 11:58 PM
I guess there are so many knit bloggers out there that we have caused Typepad and Bloglines to expand beyond their limitations. At least they are both doing what they can to fix things.
Posted by: margene at December 19, 2005 07:53 AM
You have to admire a company that can admit they suck. I posted this morning. We'll see how long it takes for bloglines to pick it up this time. I've been avoiding migrating to Newsgator because I'm lazy, I suppose. I'm just hoping bloglines will get their act together so we can all live in harmony again, lol.
Posted by: Carole at December 19, 2005 08:58 AM
I've been using Bloglines in parallel with Newsgator for the past week, and I can't say Newsgator is any better. Bloglines will get some feeds before newsgator does, and vice versa. I also have some issues with certain pieces of Newsgator's interface - just way to clunky in my book. I hope the Bloglines move eases some of their issues, because I like it the best for sure.
Posted by: Pumpkinmama at December 19, 2005 09:12 AM
Well, you're right about that update; it's 10:15 am ET and your Sunday post is still on Bloglines...
Posted by: Martha at December 19, 2005 10:18 AM
i'm happy for bloglines! overgrowing your hosting and then having to migrate to a new provider is probably one of THE most STRESSFUL things that anyone in IT can do. it's probably been in the works for them to move for months now because it seriously takes that long to get a contingency plan together, back everything up and still stay in service. i feel their pain as much as they feel mine. i'm glad that i haven't given up on them yet.
Posted by: gleek at December 19, 2005 10:24 AM