Comments on: Bloglines vs. Google Reader: A Usability Evaluation

By: heeso

heeso — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:37:32 +0000

Please, can you PM me and tell me few more things about this, I am really lover of your blog…

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:54:27 +0000

I tend to disagree….or should I say we use our “readers” differently. I follow many blogs which is industry related. This means I don't need to scan each day on what is the latest hottest thing, but instead I want to keep track of every single update made on a blog since my last visit. I also like to sort them “oldest first” as some postings might be building on top of each other.
With GR you have to do it with each and every feed separately! With bloglines you can set that default in one place for all your feeds. Also, with GR, if you display oldest first and there is new feed coming in GR shows you 2 month old messages which you “marked read”. Now it becomes a mission of scrolling down, GR loading, scrolling, loading until you get to the new stuff. With bloglines it ONLY shows the new stuff, but has an option to read older stuff and then you can also specify how far back you want to go. For my needs I would say GR suck big time! Anyway, just thought I'll add my 2cents. Good post anyway.

By: s0beurself

s0beurself — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:39:25 +0000

Thanks for doing all the leg work – Google should be paying you a commission.

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Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:46:58 +0000

[...] In Mobile on February 4, 2009 at 4:46 pm The inspiration for today’s post comes from this excellent usability study of the desktop versions of Bloglines and Google Reader. As good as it is the mobile clients are only briefly mentioned, and I thought them worthy of their [...]

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:37:39 +0000

Interesting. I prefer feeddemon/newsgator myself – I can use feeddemon on my desktop, and the newsgator web service on my laptop or wherever I am. I have never liked google reader, and while it may be more usable in ways, quite honestly, I find the fonts, colours, and layout ugly. I like the nicer images and colours of Bloglines more. What kind of UX designer does that make me lol

By: lsabow

lsabow — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:32:06 +0000

@Matt

Agreed. I had to switch from bloglines, which I prefer, because my feeds weren't updating.

I'm looking to see if I can find an offline reader that syncs with either google reader or bloglines and isn't a pain in the neck to use.

By: Dv0rsky

Dv0rsky — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:25:20 +0000

Hey, great article and info.

I have made a switch from Bloglines to Google Reader yesterday and have come to almost the same results like you did.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:09:44 +0000

Thank you for the nice feature-by-feature comparison. I think you sold me on switching to Google Reader.

Is it just me, or has Bloglines been having a lot of problems over the past 3-4 months? I’ve been trying to find out if others have been having the same problem as me, but Google searches haven’t turned anything up. At least once a week, I am unable to log into Bloglines for hours at a time – from any computer or from any network. The login page loads fine, but after I enter my credentials and click login, the page just sits there trying to load. There are also times where I’m already logged in and I can’t Pin any posts and trying to load a feed takes close to a minute. I’ve submitted at least 3 requests for help and nobody ever responds to them. It’s almost like Bloglines WANTS me to switch to Google Reader.