Why is newsblur so slow

I do have browser extensions, but only reliable ones, and no, they do not affect any other websites. I have the same problem. If I use the Feed mode, the story opens instantly. But Text mode is not working properly for all sites.

Its either taking too long or not getting any text at all. It was working fine till yesterday. I have neither added or removed any plugins. I am using Chrome on Windows 7. I want to see how long it takes to load. Why so painfully slow? Right-click on the suspect feed and open Statistics. What do you see there?

Do you have any browser extensions? I am seeing a few feeds that are not updating ones from flickr. Middle Finger Salute to Google. My biggest complaint is that almost of the alternatives suffer from what I call "gray disease" -- tiny, low-contrast gray text on a gray background. It would be nice if the "designers" figured out that the entire world isn't an Apple ad note that Apple itself doesn't do this for long-form documentation -- that's all high-contrast black on white, at a reasonable size.

As in stuff that people have to READ? Please let this be figured out by the end of August, which is when I teach and when I need one of these for the student blogs. Way back when I used Bloglines. I believe it is still around. Did you try that?

I'm currently trying AOL Reader, which doesn't have search yet, but seems to have the most Google-like interface. Took about four hours to go from wait list to getting an account which I did yesterday. I spent quite some time looking for an alternative, too. I finally settled for Newsblur. After the experience with the free Google Reader, I'd rather have a viable solution with a clear business model. The price is not unreasonable, and I hope that by supporting the service it stays alive for some time.

Lanny: I looked at Bloglines which I also used to use. It's been sold off to some company named Merchant Circle that appears to be repurposing it into some kind of "local" service. It's definitely not the old Bloglines. What they have is some weird hack built on top of NetVibes, and the user interface is very confusing at least it was to me. Been happy so far. You wrote: "I'd like to add a PubSubHubbub functionality to it to do away with polling altogether.

Though that said, Google will probably stop supporting this project as well, so its future is uncertain. I also have to chime in and recommend Newsblur. It's open source, working nicely, and it even has basic filters, so there's no need to plug everything into Yahoo Pipes whenever there's need to filter some keywords out of a feed. What they have is some weird hack built on top of NetVibes, and the user interface is very confusing at least it was to me facebook.

Post a Comment Your comments will be moderated. Sorry, but it's not a nice world out there. July 01, So today is the day Google Reader is vanishing from the web.

What next? Clean and fast, and loading content without obvious difficulties though it's reporting 'no content found' on a number of feeds, reflecting the fact that it is still loading data from the world.

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