The Breaking Of The Feedreaders

OK I am not alone: "unfortunately the way Google Reader works is that it forces you to look at every single post, so if you have feeds that are very frequently updates, Google Reader is not great at letting you simply skim through them quickly. Almost immediately, my Google Reader account was overwhelmed with thousands of unread posts, and it felt completely out of control. I abandoned it, as I suspect many other people did who went through the same experience."

This is SOOO broken. My basic interaction with my feedreader is:

• Scan the bold feed titles to see where there's something new.
• Click on a few feeds and scan their posts. Now these feeds are "read" and are not bold anymore.
• Rinse and repeat.

Call me crazy. Is this just me? Isn't this how feedreaders should work? So why is Bloglines broken (the bolding of the feeds is broken), and why does Google Reader just doesn't want to do this (if I click a feed, the feed still shows bold, as if I didn't read it.)?

AAAAAAAAARG.

# Nov 24, 2007

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