I’m not sure what the devs at Google are doing lately, but whatever it is they need to rollback to a previous version because my river of news has been dead for days. Sure, it still works, but only in the way that your old, beaten, hand-me-down, car works 3 years after the first time it left you stranded… sometimes.
- About 50% of the time, when I click “All Items” in IE or Firefox I’m greeted with this screen. The only problem is that the sidebar is teasing me with over 100 unread items.
In Firefox my river dies consistently after reading the first 10 items in the middle of loading the next 20. Then I end up having to gamble by hitting the refresh button. (See bug #1)
About 20% of the time I get an error when I mark items as read with the mobile version. Once I get this it doesn’t work again for 5 minutes. But that’s five minutes I’m not catching up on my news.
I’ve seen several times in the last few days the pages render without the CSS applied. It’s an ugly site and certainly not the experience you’ve come to expect from Google.
The reason I loved Google reader is that it was as fast as a local client reader with the advantage of having read/unread status maintained across machines and devices. It’s quickly losing that status. Thankfully they implemented an OPML export that I can use after finding a new way to read and share items. Has the “rest and vest” attitude started already at the big G?