Okay, so Google screwed everyone with it's bonehead play of dropping Google Reader. But the dashboard still worked.
Except not quite.
It won't let me add new blogs for one thing. And some days it keeps telling me I have no blogs in my list - "would you like to add one?" :eyeroll: Why yes, I would like to add one, but you won't let me do that anymore either. Turds.
So I'm slowly working on moving my blog reading over to Feedly. So far... meh. But then again, I'm a creature of habit. Not hard to see why, when I've been reading blogs in my dashboard for freakin' years, I'm not exactly jumping up and down about a new way to read blogs. Bleh.
And this morning I discovered that my dashboard has been hiding blogs from me. (Not that it wasn't doing that before. For weeks, it was telling me that the last post by Jeffe Kennedy had been posted in May.) Today, I found out that Rob Thurman hasn't been absent for months. She's been posting but dashboard hasn't been telling me. Bastiges.
Anyway, if you haven't seen me for a while, blame the dashboard. I'm working on getting everything transferred to Feedly, but there doesn't seem to be a way to just transfer all the damn blogs I read over at once, so I have to input them one by one. Not a project I had slotted time for, but I'm getting there.
Right now, I'm still swinging back and forth between the old dashboard and the new feed. Depends on the day and my mood and the vagaries of technical gremlins where I'm coming at you from. :shrug:
How much you wanna bet as soon as I get comfortable with Feedly, they'll change it or cancel it or implode or something?
What do you read blogs on?
I use Feedly, but I don't like it. It wants to charge you for the upgrade that allows you to search your blog list. And there are still several blogs that update frequently, yet they show up on Feedly with no updates since June.
ReplyDeleteI've written to them and they sent me a canned response that they're still trying to sort things out. For nearly a month I was also deleting stuff accidentally on Feedly, and there was no way to un-delete.
I miss Google Reader.
I hear that, Maria. I'm not paying for something that used to be free - not without a damn good reason. Sorry to hear Feedly has some of the same problems as my dashboard, though. I'll muddle through and if necessary, find some other way to read.
DeleteUmm, Feedly is very easy to use... I don't know why it's not letting you transfer everything over at once? All I did was sign up for it and it automatically transferred my blogs from Google Reader. I haven't had a single issue. Then again, I signed up for Feedly way back in the winter/early spring when Google first announced their retirement of Reader.
ReplyDeleteMaybe because I never used Google Reader, Nat. :shrug: My laziness and need to do things the old way bit me in the ass on this one, I think.
DeleteUhm...I think I managed to import everything to Feedly in one or two clicks but dang if I can remember how! Let me noodle on it and I'll get back to you if I figure it out. Now that I'm used to Feedly, I like it. I can put my feeds into tiers, based on how important they are to read RIGHT NOW! (like yours ;) ) and also grouped by content--like all my LOL stuff is in one tier. Only that's not what they call it. Anyway. I'll get back to you.
ReplyDeleteOh, and Feedly is already pushing "premium" that you pay for. :( Still beats the alternative.
Thanks for looking for that, Silver. And yeah, I saw the whole 'pay for this premium shit' message. I'll stay free for as long as I can, and if necessary, go back to the really old way of doing things - bookmarking everything and hitting every single blog every morning to see if they have anything new.
DeleteFound it. If you have the OPML file you can import it. Go to ORGANIZE, and you'll find the links to do it. Back when Google Reader folded, I did my OPML file and had it saved so it was easy. Not sure you can still grab it from Google, but you can try. Don't ask me how! LOL Google it. *ducks*
ReplyDeleteYeah, like I said, I never did the actual Google Reader thingie, so I'm betting I don't have an OPML file. I will try using Google to find a way to thwart Google, though. LOL
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