Bloglines feed managing capability sucks…

November 27, 2005 By

I can’t delete more than about 50 feeds at one time in Bloglines. I’ve complained about this before and they haven’t fixed it. Bloglines has no way for me to update my RSS feeds without deleting all my feeds and reimporting feeds from someplace else. That really sucks. There should be an “erase all” feature. Oh, yes, you can try the “Check All” and then “Remove” feature, but it doesn’t work. So I’m forced to delete all my feeds at about 30 per delete. Sigh.

NewsGator let me delete all 1378 feeds I had without burping. Oh, speaking of which, since stopping my Radio UserLand blog my NewsGator subscription level there has gone from 15,000 to 18,000. Whew! Maybe that’s the trick to getting more popular. Just stop publishing! Oh, well, there’ll be time for that when I’m dead. Heheh.

UPDATE: Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines, just left a comment here on this post and said this is an IE problem and that it works in Firefox. Thanks Mark for clarifying that!

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  • http://www.gadgetophile.com/ Ben

    Heh, I use and love bloglines, but admittedly only have about 100 feeds. I wonder if this post will get the same response that my previous comment about Feedster bugs got.

    Feedster were definitely on the ball there. Time to compare the customer service from Bloglines! :-D

  • http://www.gadgetophile.com/ Ben

    Heh, I use and love bloglines, but admittedly only have about 100 feeds. I wonder if this post will get the same response that my previous comment about Feedster bugs got.

    Feedster were definitely on the ball there. Time to compare the customer service from Bloglines! :-D

  • http://www.gadgetophile.com Ben

    Heh, I use and love bloglines, but admittedly only have about 100 feeds. I wonder if this post will get the same response that my previous comment about Feedster bugs got.

    Feedster were definitely on the ball there. Time to compare the customer service from Bloglines! :-D

  • http://www.makeyougohmm.com/ TDavid

    I sure hope eBay does more with Skype than Ask Jeeves, er, InterActive Corp has done with Bloglines.

    “There is a problem with the database. Please try again later” — that’s what I got when I tried to import from my OPML to them. I couldn’t delete more than 30 or 40 feeds at a time either without the system hanging.

    Time to remove their public feed link and put up a link to the OPML file instead.

  • http://www.makeyougohmm.com/ TDavid

    I sure hope eBay does more with Skype than Ask Jeeves, er, InterActive Corp has done with Bloglines.

    “There is a problem with the database. Please try again later” — that’s what I got when I tried to import from my OPML to them. I couldn’t delete more than 30 or 40 feeds at a time either without the system hanging.

    Time to remove their public feed link and put up a link to the OPML file instead.

  • http://www.makeyougohmm.com/ TDavid

    I sure hope eBay does more with Skype than Ask Jeeves, er, InterActive Corp has done with Bloglines.

    “There is a problem with the database. Please try again later” — that’s what I got when I tried to import from my OPML to them. I couldn’t delete more than 30 or 40 feeds at a time either without the system hanging.

    Time to remove their public feed link and put up a link to the OPML file instead.

  • http://www.makeyougohmm.com/ TDavid

    I sure hope eBay does more with Skype than Ask Jeeves, er, InterActive Corp has done with Bloglines.

    “There is a problem with the database. Please try again later” — that’s what I got when I tried to import from my OPML to them. I couldn’t delete more than 30 or 40 feeds at a time either without the system hanging.

    Time to remove their public feed link and put up a link to the OPML file instead.

  • http://www.makeyougohmm.com/ TDavid

    I sure hope eBay does more with Skype than Ask Jeeves, er, InterActive Corp has done with Bloglines.

    “There is a problem with the database. Please try again later” — that’s what I got when I tried to import from my OPML to them. I couldn’t delete more than 30 or 40 feeds at a time either without the system hanging.

    Time to remove their public feed link and put up a link to the OPML file instead.

  • http://www.brianshih.com/ Brian Shih

    I’m curious, I know you’ve told me before that Newsgator is the best RSS aggregator out there, and I was wondering why you keep Bloglines around.

  • http://www.brianshih.com/ Brian Shih

    I’m curious, I know you’ve told me before that Newsgator is the best RSS aggregator out there, and I was wondering why you keep Bloglines around.

  • http://www.brianshih.com/ Brian Shih

    I’m curious, I know you’ve told me before that Newsgator is the best RSS aggregator out there, and I was wondering why you keep Bloglines around.

  • http://www.brianshih.com/ Brian Shih

    I’m curious, I know you’ve told me before that Newsgator is the best RSS aggregator out there, and I was wondering why you keep Bloglines around.

  • http://www.brianshih.com/ Brian Shih

    I’m curious, I know you’ve told me before that Newsgator is the best RSS aggregator out there, and I was wondering why you keep Bloglines around.

  • http://www.brianshih.com Brian Shih

    I’m curious, I know you’ve told me before that Newsgator is the best RSS aggregator out there, and I was wondering why you keep Bloglines around.

  • David Mackie

    I had the same problem a couple of months ago when I imported blogs.msdn.com’s OPML file into my root folder of Bloglines, not knowing that there where over 1000 blogs (over 2000 now it seems). Eventually had to send in a support request to get all of the MDSN feeds removed.

    As Scott says, there not been much in UI upgrade for Bloglines in a long time and maybe it time for me to start looking for another online blog “aggregator”, maybe one that can even aggregate multiple blogs _together_ into one feed. I’ve also found strangeness of read posts suddenly re-appearing as unread, and friends feeds just not been updated, which is mildly annoying to say the least.

  • David Mackie

    I had the same problem a couple of months ago when I imported blogs.msdn.com’s OPML file into my root folder of Bloglines, not knowing that there where over 1000 blogs (over 2000 now it seems). Eventually had to send in a support request to get all of the MDSN feeds removed.

    As Scott says, there not been much in UI upgrade for Bloglines in a long time and maybe it time for me to start looking for another online blog “aggregator”, maybe one that can even aggregate multiple blogs _together_ into one feed. I’ve also found strangeness of read posts suddenly re-appearing as unread, and friends feeds just not been updated, which is mildly annoying to say the least.

  • David Mackie

    I had the same problem a couple of months ago when I imported blogs.msdn.com’s OPML file into my root folder of Bloglines, not knowing that there where over 1000 blogs (over 2000 now it seems). Eventually had to send in a support request to get all of the MDSN feeds removed.

    As Scott says, there not been much in UI upgrade for Bloglines in a long time and maybe it time for me to start looking for another online blog “aggregator”, maybe one that can even aggregate multiple blogs _together_ into one feed. I’ve also found strangeness of read posts suddenly re-appearing as unread, and friends feeds just not been updated, which is mildly annoying to say the least.

  • David Mackie

    I had the same problem a couple of months ago when I imported blogs.msdn.com’s OPML file into my root folder of Bloglines, not knowing that there where over 1000 blogs (over 2000 now it seems). Eventually had to send in a support request to get all of the MDSN feeds removed.

    As Scott says, there not been much in UI upgrade for Bloglines in a long time and maybe it time for me to start looking for another online blog “aggregator”, maybe one that can even aggregate multiple blogs _together_ into one feed. I’ve also found strangeness of read posts suddenly re-appearing as unread, and friends feeds just not been updated, which is mildly annoying to say the least.

  • David Mackie

    I had the same problem a couple of months ago when I imported blogs.msdn.com’s OPML file into my root folder of Bloglines, not knowing that there where over 1000 blogs (over 2000 now it seems). Eventually had to send in a support request to get all of the MDSN feeds removed.

    As Scott says, there not been much in UI upgrade for Bloglines in a long time and maybe it time for me to start looking for another online blog “aggregator”, maybe one that can even aggregate multiple blogs _together_ into one feed. I’ve also found strangeness of read posts suddenly re-appearing as unread, and friends feeds just not been updated, which is mildly annoying to say the least.

  • David Mackie

    I had the same problem a couple of months ago when I imported blogs.msdn.com’s OPML file into my root folder of Bloglines, not knowing that there where over 1000 blogs (over 2000 now it seems). Eventually had to send in a support request to get all of the MDSN feeds removed.

    As Scott says, there not been much in UI upgrade for Bloglines in a long time and maybe it time for me to start looking for another online blog “aggregator”, maybe one that can even aggregate multiple blogs _together_ into one feed. I’ve also found strangeness of read posts suddenly re-appearing as unread, and friends feeds just not been updated, which is mildly annoying to say the least.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Brian: because thousands of my readers use Bloglines.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Brian: because thousands of my readers use Bloglines.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Brian: because thousands of my readers use Bloglines.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Brian: because thousands of my readers use Bloglines.

  • http://plasser.net/blog Jürgen R Plasser

    Another (rather funny) Bloglines “feature”:

    I subscribed to Bloglines weather forecast and I always get the same weather forecast. I think the last time the forecast was right was in summer. At least he title of the weather feed shows the correct temperatures. Anyway it’s not very useful.

  • http://plasser.net/blog Jürgen R Plasser

    Another (rather funny) Bloglines “feature”:

    I subscribed to Bloglines weather forecast and I always get the same weather forecast. I think the last time the forecast was right was in summer. At least he title of the weather feed shows the correct temperatures. Anyway it’s not very useful.

  • http://plasser.net/blog Jürgen R Plasser

    Another (rather funny) Bloglines “feature”:

    I subscribed to Bloglines weather forecast and I always get the same weather forecast. I think the last time the forecast was right was in summer. At least he title of the weather feed shows the correct temperatures. Anyway it’s not very useful.

  • http://plasser.net/blog Jürgen R Plasser

    Another (rather funny) Bloglines “feature”:

    I subscribed to Bloglines weather forecast and I always get the same weather forecast. I think the last time the forecast was right was in summer. At least he title of the weather feed shows the correct temperatures. Anyway it’s not very useful.

  • http://plasser.net/blog Jürgen R Plasser

    Another (rather funny) Bloglines “feature”:

    I subscribed to Bloglines weather forecast and I always get the same weather forecast. I think the last time the forecast was right was in summer. At least he title of the weather feed shows the correct temperatures. Anyway it’s not very useful.

  • http://plasser.net/blog Jürgen R Plasser

    Another (rather funny) Bloglines “feature”:

    I subscribed to Bloglines weather forecast and I always get the same weather forecast. I think the last time the forecast was right was in summer. At least he title of the weather feed shows the correct temperatures. Anyway it’s not very useful.

  • http://www.bloglines.com/ Mark Fletcher

    Robert,

    The ‘check all’ issue is a known one but only happens in IE. We’re working on improved feed management, but I don’t have a date for when that will go live.

    fyi, when changing blogs/feeds, if possible, you should set your old feed to permanently redirect to your new feed. That will cause Bloglines to automatically merge the two feeds. It’s also good for people reading your feed through other aggregators, as most other aggregators will do the same.

    Thanks,
    Mark

  • http://www.bloglines.com/ Mark Fletcher

    Robert,

    The ‘check all’ issue is a known one but only happens in IE. We’re working on improved feed management, but I don’t have a date for when that will go live.

    fyi, when changing blogs/feeds, if possible, you should set your old feed to permanently redirect to your new feed. That will cause Bloglines to automatically merge the two feeds. It’s also good for people reading your feed through other aggregators, as most other aggregators will do the same.

    Thanks,
    Mark

  • http://www.bloglines.com/ Mark Fletcher

    Robert,

    The ‘check all’ issue is a known one but only happens in IE. We’re working on improved feed management, but I don’t have a date for when that will go live.

    fyi, when changing blogs/feeds, if possible, you should set your old feed to permanently redirect to your new feed. That will cause Bloglines to automatically merge the two feeds. It’s also good for people reading your feed through other aggregators, as most other aggregators will do the same.

    Thanks,
    Mark

  • http://www.bloglines.com/ Mark Fletcher

    Robert,

    The ‘check all’ issue is a known one but only happens in IE. We’re working on improved feed management, but I don’t have a date for when that will go live.

    fyi, when changing blogs/feeds, if possible, you should set your old feed to permanently redirect to your new feed. That will cause Bloglines to automatically merge the two feeds. It’s also good for people reading your feed through other aggregators, as most other aggregators will do the same.

    Thanks,
    Mark

  • http://www.bloglines.com/ Mark Fletcher

    Robert,

    The ‘check all’ issue is a known one but only happens in IE. We’re working on improved feed management, but I don’t have a date for when that will go live.

    fyi, when changing blogs/feeds, if possible, you should set your old feed to permanently redirect to your new feed. That will cause Bloglines to automatically merge the two feeds. It’s also good for people reading your feed through other aggregators, as most other aggregators will do the same.

    Thanks,
    Mark

  • http://www.bloglines.com Mark Fletcher

    Robert,

    The ‘check all’ issue is a known one but only happens in IE. We’re working on improved feed management, but I don’t have a date for when that will go live.

    fyi, when changing blogs/feeds, if possible, you should set your old feed to permanently redirect to your new feed. That will cause Bloglines to automatically merge the two feeds. It’s also good for people reading your feed through other aggregators, as most other aggregators will do the same.

    Thanks,
    Mark

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • BillyG

    “I had to check to make sure the feed actually was updated. It was, Bloglines just wasn’t showing it.”

    THE SCARIEST SNIPPET OF ALL OF THIS! = double the time spent reading feeds

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Mark: unfortunately I can’t do that. Is there anyway to do that in Bloglines or have you do it? Thanks for showing up, by the way. That means a lot.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Mark: unfortunately I can’t do that. Is there anyway to do that in Bloglines or have you do it? Thanks for showing up, by the way. That means a lot.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Mark: unfortunately I can’t do that. Is there anyway to do that in Bloglines or have you do it? Thanks for showing up, by the way. That means a lot.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Mark: unfortunately I can’t do that. Is there anyway to do that in Bloglines or have you do it? Thanks for showing up, by the way. That means a lot.

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