Bloglines beta now just Bloglines?

Took at look at Bloglines beta this morning, which is how I usually start my day and noticed a few things. Firstly, although 'beta' is still in the URL it's been dropped from the page. Secondly, they've changed the look of the interface - more space between lines, so I get less on the screen. That doesn't help. The font colour has also been messed around with, so that it's far more difficult to view the read material (in a light grey font) over the unread material (in a slightly darker grey font). Finally, and this is the really insane thing - while I can click on a post to read it, I can't click to GO to the post in a weblog. This doesn't help when I can only read a summary of a posting. Besides, it shouldn't be up to Bloglines to tell me what I can and can't do - it's there to be helpful, not to dictate. I'm really hoping this is a glitch somewhere in their system or mine, but if it's their idea of a new feature then I'm so out of there you wouldn't believe!

Comments

[Bjorn Tipling]

Hi there, I'm Bjorn, an engineer at Bloglines. Thank you for your feedback. Others have said the same thing about the gray font and we will make it darker. I haven't seen any problems with going to the actual post though, would you mind telling me more please? If there is an issue with this, we would like to fix it.

Thank you!

Bjorn Tipling
Bloglines Engineer

[Arne van Elk]

I couldn't agree more. I hope Bloglines soon realizes this is a mistake. Google Reader is OK, but not as good as the 'former' Beta Bloglines.

[Matt]

They may have friendly error messages when they have planned outages, but I've been noticing more and more outages or partial outages that are never acknowledged. I have been unable to log in all afternoon - tried from 3 different computers on 3 different networks and after I click login, the page just sits there. This seems to happen about once a week for me. I also have problems with being able to keep items as new just as regularly. And finally, just as often, it takes about 30-45 seconds for a feed to load in the right pane. I have e-mailed them several times about the issue, but never heard back. Sorry to unload here, but I've been searching google to see if anybody else is having such a lousy experience with bloglines and I'm not finding anything and I'm quite frustrated. I think I'm finally going to have to check out google reader.