Bloglines Freedback

Bloglines is asking for freedback so here I go.

I’ve tried other web-based news aggregators (and even tried to write my own before that) but I always come back to Bloglines. Why? Here are some reasons:

  • It’s web-based, so I can continue reading my feeds at work and at home, and anywhere else I may be.
  • It’s almost always up, and always fast.
  • The interface is intuitive.
  • I like to see who is subscribed to what blog, if they make it public. I usually do — I have nothing to hide.
  • in the same manner, I love the suggestions. That has really helped add new blogs (which may be a good or bad thing . . )
  • The blog search is very, very good. No, really. I like having it in my blog reader.

Some suggestions that I have:

  • Instead of categories for your feeds, how about tags? And you can give a feed more than one tag. Yes, this would change how navigation works, but, hey, I’m not a UI guy.
  • Buttons to Collaspe All and Expand All.
  • Lately my feeds have been screwy. Some blogs I know have been updated don’t show up as new, yet when I click on them I see the new entries. Alright, these sites are on Xanga and Yahoo 360, but they used to work fine.
  • I know you are working on it, but better Atom support. Or maybe it’s working now — if so, tell us!

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