DISQUS

Chris Cree · 1 year ago

Great comparison, Whitney.

I'd switched to GR from Bloglines before the Beta version came out. I thought about changing back until GR finally added a search function. (Never could understand how Google could have a product with no search.) Google Reader is a great product for my needs.

I'll be pointing clients to your post here when they ask for a feed reader recommendation.

Todd · 1 year ago

Nice, succinct, to the point comparison. Thank you!

Gail Desler · 1 year ago

Thanks, Whitney, for the comparison. I've been slowly making the transfer from Bloglines to GR. Your write up is speeding up that process.

Gail Desler

Vw · 1 year ago

Actually I think mobile bloglines is much better than mobile google reader on a windows mobile device.

Alitta · 1 year ago

I was searching for "bloglines + import" and I came across your blog. It was really helpful. Thanks a lot :)

Alitta

Vivek Kumar · 1 year ago

Thanks for the info - wanted to use a news year and now I know what to use

sandieman · 1 year ago

Blog This is Needed! Neither of them have it and it would complete the circle of blogging: http://www.robertsandie.com/2008/05/01/google-r...

Michael J Pratt · 1 year ago

My biggest criteria to evaluate & compare is whether you like having feeds divided up by folder and that remains the domain of personal preference. I think "star" is misnamed, a common problem in UX. GR didn't put much thought into what they wanted the function to mean. Save & Pin do a better job, as you said. I'm also not sure I'd give as much weight to "settings", etc as we're probably more likely to sacrifice bad settings mgt for a good reading experience. Aggregation is also a personal pref thing: My feeds are so diverse, I can't imagine seeing them all together. All said, Bloglines has been in beta for so long, I think they forgot about it. It needs a great deal of work. Bear in mind, this is all from a person who doesn't like Gmail...an indicator

Matt · 1 year ago

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.

Dv0rsky · 1 year ago

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.

lsabow · 1 year ago

@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.

Erica · 1 year ago

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