Bloglines redesign beta
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There is someone home!
It looked as if Bloglines was abandoned by its parents but what do you know? It ain’t dead yet! Today the new Bloglines is unveiled.
For a long time now the service not only was losing steam but also many of its devout users. Google Reader won over many defectors while others went to the various customizable start pages. I kept using Bloglines all along putting up with the stale UI and the 200 item feed limit because no other free aggregator service had a more complete set of features or did a better job of keeping them both in sync.
The main new features in this beta are:
- A customizable, drag-and-drop Start Page
- Quick, full and 3-pane views
- Drag-and-drop feed management
There were other changes to the service and it does look like a “beta”. For example, many existing features, such as Keep New, Rename Folder and general options and settings, are missing from the beta. I hope the purpose of this beta is to feature the new UI and not the full capabilities of the service. For now, I can switch back to the older UI to get to all the features.
This new release is exciting news for existing Bloglines users and will certainly win back some defectors and attract new users. I look forward to seeing it fully implemented.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
You are right. They are the best FREE aggregator, but do have some problems. Their 2-day technical support makes one want to cringe if something serious goes wrong. And believe me things go wrong.
Thankfully, if not for your beta post here, I would have have given up on them. They did some upgrade tonight (the plumber guy was visible), and after that none of my feeds showed up - none. The horror! I went to add…to edit…nothing. Then I saw your post about Beta, and viola! they showed up there.
I emailed them…let’s see how long that takes. In the meantime, I am going to use one of the plugins to download the feeds to another app for a backup.