Comments on: Google Reader Suffers Down Time

By: Интернетные штучки » У Google Reader проблемы

Интернетные штучки » У Google Reader проблемы — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:41:30 +0000

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By: David Scott Lewis

David Scott Lewis — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:08:37 +0000

Look, if you’re addicted to a specific feed or group of feeds, there are plenty of alerting services. (I won’t even mention Twitter.) I like ZapTXT, but I won’t claim it’s necessarily superior as I did claim that Omea Pro is the best reader (which it is).

By: Robert Zolkos

Robert Zolkos — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:39:09 +0000

Was it a US only issue because it was working for me fine in Australia at the time the reported outages were occuring?

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:47:27 +0000

I remember when I used to use Bloglines. The reason I did switch to Google Reader is because I always saw that damn Bloglines plumber. Google of course had a lot less downtime than Bloglines did. I even expect hiccups to happen even at the biggest of companies. I never seem to use offline readers because I switch computers too often and it’s just too much of a hassle.

By: z

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:29:07 +0000

When are we getting back to normal updates? I have more than a couple feeds that got 1 update ~8 hours ago and promptly stopped getting any more updates right after that instead of the usual 1 hour updates.

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:25:46 +0000

This is certainly the last thing you’d expect from a company like Google.

By: Impartial Observer

Impartial Observer — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:26:54 +0000

I think it’s funny that everyone is giving Google such a pass on this. If this were Yahoo, people would be out of their minds, screaming about how Y! has lost it and their engineering sucks and so forth..

By: jordon

jordon — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:54:33 +0000

This problem underscores that online RSS readers are by no means perfect. I wish Newsgator would get its act together and improve the reliability and useability of its online reader, because I think if it worked properly it would be a viable alternative to Google Reader. I like Bloglines o.k., but its style is cheesy and you can’t adjust the volume on its embedded mp3 player.

I’ve also noticed Newsgator online refreshes feeds faster than Google Reader.

It’s highly ironic to me that as more traditionally desktop-based apps are migrating online (i.e. Zoho, Google Docs), offline RSS readers still dominate the market.

By: beau

beau — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:45:13 +0000

GReader now loads, but the feeds are obviously not updating.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:16:46 +0000

- to be honest / I think RSS / is way old / and ATOM is the next bigger better thing.

-RB

p.s. Let the stupid responses begin

By: Groovymarlin

Groovymarlin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:21:07 +0000

It’s been up and down all day now. Really annoying, though I admit not “mission critical.”

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:24:48 +0000

this impacted my iGoogle (google.com/ig) feeds as well, although some feeds did update and some didn’t there. Some still haven’t.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:56:19 +0000

For most, Google Reader is not mission critical. That said, I’d never trust my email to gmail, since that is mission critical.

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:36:34 +0000

I kind of find it odd that there is a story post on TechCrunch about Google Reader being down. Big deal…it’s back up now.

These things happen.

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:09:48 +0000

Hey Duncan, its good to hear from you! (just discovered that you are writing on TechCrunch)

My feeds are down as well, and I have just realized how much I depend on Google Reader.

Hopefully this will be resolved soon, but I guess it will give me some other non-related blogging items to finish up on.

Take care.

By: Clampants

Clampants — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:08:35 +0000

As of 12:05 EST (Boston), my Google Reader has stopped returning any results. Lots of unread items in my left-hand subscriptions column, but all I get when I attempt to access them is “Your reading list is empty.” Sigh.

By: Groovymarlin

Groovymarlin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:47:03 +0000

I can live with having to wait a few hours for new items, but I can’t access my starred items - all stuff that appeared long before this outage occurred. What’s up with that?

By: Austin Storm

Austin Storm — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:32:50 +0000

Wow, to all who said their work depends on Google Reader:

I’m curious. What do you do that your work depends on gReader?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:16:14 +0000

Google Reader Suffers Down Time…

Google Reader, the market leading RSS reading platform according to some reports, appears to have suffered from technical difficulties resulting in feeds not refreshing from around 11pm US PST Sunday….

By: Benedict Herold

Benedict Herold — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:34:25 +0000

It seems the feeds are refreshing now. I’m getting new feed now.!

By: add

add — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:31:31 +0000

was someone killed?

it’s a free application for god’s sake, there are humans involved, many things could go wrong.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:34:54 +0000

@heri
I’m waiting on my first ever Mac to be delivered, I’ll try out some Mac RSS readers when I get it, I’ve never found anything that works for me well under Windows.

By: Feed Reading and Perspective » Solo Technology

Feed Reading and Perspective » Solo Technology — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:33:31 +0000

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By: oj

oj — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:26:59 +0000

I use newsfire also but have grown to use google reader almost exclusively for anywhere use

By: heri

heri — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:22:12 +0000

@duncan
if rss is an essential part of your workflow, you should consider a desktop reader like netnewswire or newsfire. they don’t experience downtime, more customizable, and unlike google reader, you can search through the items, and even make smart groups (à la iTunes). you can also set the period between feed refresh.

I use both newsfire (for personal) and greader (for professional) and find newsfire much better than google reader