Ok, I’m definitely fed up with Google Reader. Because everyone was talking about it and saying it was sooooo cool, I decided to give it a try and added a few of my favourite Bloglines feeds. But I just realized that I hate Google Reader’s user interface.
Plus, their shiny colors are killing my eyes, since I spend almost 2 hours per day reading feeds, I just can’t bear it.
Bloglines is much more simpler to use and has a nice user interface. Now I understand why it’s still the most popular feed reader.
Bloglines also has a big advantage over Google Reader: Bloglines has a real customer service! Really, I’ve contacted them twice: once to know how to display posts that are marked as read, and then because a splog added itself in my feeds list (really)!
Here’s the nice response I got from them:
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| Â Response (M.M.) | 12/06/2006 06:47 PM |
| Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Could you let us know if the erroneous feed replaced any of your subscriptions? We will forward your information to the appropriate technical department for further investigation, as we take these matters seriously, and want to prevent this type of activity. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused. Also, should you receive any other unwelcome blogs, please let us know. | |
| Â Customer | 12/03/2006 06:56 PM |
| Hi, I just checked out my feeds and realized that a feed was added to my list “by itself”. The url of that feed is http://blog-editor.blogspot.com/index.html , I tried to see what kind of website and it’s apparently just a site full of ads… Could you please explain me how that kind of thing can happen? If you don’t how to prevent that problem, please do let me know and I will choose a safer feed reader. Regards, Nadir |
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Good bye Google Reader, it’s good to see you again Bloglines!