DISQUS

Tom Raftery · 2 years ago

Andy,

thanks for the mention and the link.

The feature I'd most like to see in Google Reader is a Search box! You'd think, being Google, that would be one of the first things they'd roll out.

Marjolein Hoekstra · 2 years ago

Besides the lack of search capabilities there are several other things to consider when migrating. You may want to track the Google Reader Google Group for a while to see what issues are currently being dealt with. If you subscribe to several hundreds of feeds, you may start to notice delays, for example.

A critical reason for me not to use Google Reader at the moment is its lack of support for dynamic, web-based OPML files. You can import from an OPML file that is stored on your hard drive, that's all.
Also, there's no live URL for your list of feeds that you can share with others. Such a URL allows you to provide your fans with a continually updated blogroll. A live blog roll is usually referred to as a Reading List. Your fans can browse and search such a web-based OPML using Grazr and if they want they can subscribe to it using a feed reader that supports Reading Lists.
Note that for hundreds of thousands of users these are not drawbacks that kept them from moving to Google Reader and from what I see, most of these users are very satisfied.

Andrew Sherman · 2 years ago

I use bloglines and I am holding out against Google for a bit longer