Bloglines was out of action for two or three hours yesterday. I don't know if it was just my account, or the whole thing, but I certainly couldn't see it!
I contacted Mark Fletcher, and he fixed it very quickly, and got a very nice email back. Very good service - especially considering that I'm not paying for it!
Even though I've only been using Bloglines for a couple of weeks now, I really missed it. It's amazing how quickly it's become an essential. What's more, even in so short a time, it's noticeably improved, notably in the subscription management screen.
How could it improve further? Well, I already mentioned that I'd like to be able to configure the text size, and to nest subscription folders within folders. One other thing has occurred to me since; when you select a subscription folder in the left hand pane on the 'My Blogs' screen, it both shows all new posts in the left hand pane, and expands the folder. I'd prefer the folder not to expand unless I click on the '+'.
Keep up the good work, Mike, and good luck. Bloglines deserves to succeed, and I hope it does.
Update August 13th: The folder thing is fixed now. ;-)
Posted to Blogs by Simon Brunning at July 30, 2003 10:47 AMWas it just you? I've been using it pretty much full time for the last few weeks and didn't notice any outage yesterday.
Mind you, that could have coincided with one of those rare periods where I was actually doing some work.
Posted by: Andy Todd on July 30, 2003 11:44 AMProbably just me, then.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on July 30, 2003 11:58 AMThanks for the great words! The issue was one involving a feed name that had a newline in it. We weren't properly deleting that newline before inserting it into the Javascript code. This caused incorrect Javascript to be generated, which resulted in the blank screen on your browser.
Those are great suggestions, and we're working on implementing them. Thanks!
Posted by: Mark Fletcher on July 30, 2003 10:14 PMFirst law of escaping routines - there is *always* something you forget to escape the first time. ;-)
As I said, it's a very nice tool. Mark's responsivness suggests to me that it will get even better.
One other suggestion. How about an RSS feed from the Bloglines news page, http://www.bloglines.com/about/news !
Posted by: Simon Brunning on July 31, 2003 12:32 PMI've been down for two days, and am still down. I tried deleting my cookie for bloglines, but that didn't work either. I'm gonna try closing down everything, deleting the new cookie, and starting over.
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