Skewering Bloglines (again)- Philip Jacob

David Berlind at ZDNet apparently noticed the games that Sam Ruby has been playing with Bloglines . Bloglines is hopelessly silly in so many areas and Sam likes to point this out by putting little HTML tags in his posts that break Bloglines. I laugh every time he does this.

In addition to Bloglines’ inability to make a sane feed reader, there are also very serious unresolved privacy problems , security problems and specification compliance problems .

You must wonder why we continue to use Bloglines in spite of all this. It’s because all of the other web-based feed reader applications are so hopelessly, unbelieveably bad that we all keep coming back to this junkheap of a web service and wait for it to get better.

Maybe one of Paul Graham ’s startup school fundees can rewrite the damn thing in a weekend… (in Lisp, just to make us all smile).