If I ran a bagpipe band, I'd call our first album The Scotch Tapes.
Another great new Bloglines beta feature!
Along with the impressively frequent "Loading..." and "There appears to be a server communication problem..." dialogs, the long-running beta of Bloglines sported a lean, mean new home page this morning.
I know installing and renewing SSL security certificates can be tedious and time-consuming; however, if you force your beta project traffic through an SSL connection you pretty much have to consider the certificate at or near Job 1.
I can still use "classic" Bloglines, which has no SSL requirement, but seems to sport many of the same reliability problems as the beta. Anyone have an RSS aggregator/reader suite you just love?
[Update (7:11 p.m. EDT, 6/2/09): The Bloglines beta remains down, but what really gets me is how little dialogue I'm seeing about it after more than 24 hours down. Just a handful of tweets, few if any blog posts, and no official posts I can find from Bloglines on the subject (not even on the "classic" version). Does Bloglines have so few users?]
What surprises me is that now
What surprises me is that now 5 days after it happened, there's still not a single word from bloglines about it. It's driving me nuts since classic doesn't compare to the beta, and google reader is apparently the only other real option, and it annoys the crap out of me.
I'm dumbfounded
... as I wrote in a later post ... that IAC could let this happen and not say anything. I'm also amazed at how little conversation there seems to be about it around the net.