I’m not the only one who is noticing problems at Bloglines

Russ Beattie, who gets more traffic in an hour than I get in a week, says he’s about ready to give up on Bloglines:

Lots of Bloglines folk have pinged me about the fact that my site isn’t updating. Not much I can do. I’ve emailed them several times to fix their “jsession” bug (where they include Java Server Sessions as part of the URL) or to just delete every feed of mine except for the index.rss main feed. But that doesn’t seem to happen. I’ve done redirects on old feed URLs so it should work. I think Bloglines is starting to get crufty – there’s lots and lots of things that aren’t working, and the site is starting to bog down like crazy. I was really hoping that the move to Ask Jeeves would accelerate updates and improvements, not stall them.

As part of a promised commitment to be more transparent in providing information to their large customer base, Bloglines posted exactly one lame update back on August 9. “Everything will be back to speedy once our move is complete,” that update said.

Apparently the Bloglines staff is making the change to their hosting service using sneakernet. That would explain why they keep ignoring my e-mail messages.