vendredi octobre 05, 2007 
vendredi octobre 05, 2007 
I believe I've been using beta.bloglines.com for long enough to comment further.
- I'm still seeing some sync problems between the the number of new posts shown on the left column and the actual number. This forces me to explicitly click on "Mark All As Read".
- I really miss the smooth scrolling from post to post which is in the classic bloglines.
- Given the travel I do and the many different internet connections I use (home, office, customer or public wifi) I feel this new AJAXy version is just relying too much on the network to be there at all times (but isn't every AJAX app?). I actually move back to classic bloglines to download entire pages of updated feeds (it marks them as read) for an off-line read. This begs the question: off-line anyone (even using gears)?
- One more thing I miss from "Classic" Bloglines is the smooth scrolling from post to post.
jeudi septembre 06, 2007
It's been more than a week and overall I really like to new bloglines.com.
• I miss the smooth scrolling between posts (when using keyboard navigation)
• Keep pressing 'j' and you'll move to the next category/folder: good
• The number of unread entries is No longer in the HTML title page.
• No feedback to user in right window when clicking on feed (is data loading?)
• The Quick view on multiple folder looks good but it's not convenient as it shows a fixed list of entries (both read and unread) for each folder.
• Nice "pin" feature (appeared yesterday?). I've always found it odd to mark things as "not read" when actually I simply wanted to come back to it for further work.
lundi août 27, 2007 So this is what the bloglines folks were up to. As always, SaaS' success is also a matter of keeping customers happy with small but regular updates.
The 3-pane view looks pretty nice and the quick view works nicely with multiple feeds and will avoid me having to select which feeds need to show headers only (vs. entire posts). The keyboard navigation ("j" and "k") is still very convenient and the small animations are a nice addition.
I'm not sure about having to explicitly mark as read. I'd also like to be able to have preferences as to what the default view (quick, full or 3-pane) is for each feed or folder. I don't think I'll use the personalized homepage.
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