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

By: Week 2: RSS and Personalized homepages « Jenny’s Learning 2.0 Weblog

Week 2: RSS and Personalized homepages « Jenny’s Learning 2.0 Weblog — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:03:26 +0000

[...] any studies about comparison for both sites. I found Whitney Hess’s website is very interesting ( http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/02/05/bloglines-vs-google-reader-a-usability-evaluation/) The author try to evaluation of the usability for both sites, she lists the functions on: Sign [...]

By: Mobile RSS Reader Smackdown: Bloglines Mobile Beta vs. Google Reader for Mobiles « Andrew Currie on WordPress

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.

By: Googleland: Search, Email, and Feed Reader « The Dead Dog Cafe 2.0

Googleland: Search, Email, and Feed Reader « The Dead Dog Cafe 2.0 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:57:24 +0000

[...] Google Reader is generally considered the best, completely trouncing former heavyweight Bloglines in this ten-point comparison. I’m fine using Flock for now, because, as I said before, my Thinkpad X41 goes [...]

By: Exploring the Web 2.0, Part I: Googleland « The Dead Dog Cafe 2.0

Exploring the Web 2.0, Part I: Googleland « The Dead Dog Cafe 2.0 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:46:22 +0000

By: Michael J Pratt

Michael J Pratt — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:52:54 +0000

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

By: Rob Sandie

Rob Sandie — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:08:07 +0000

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-reader-feature-request/