{"id":279,"date":"2005-11-03T23:37:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T22:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=279"},"modified":"2009-10-09T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:16:08","slug":"friends_dont_let_friends_use_feedster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/11\/03\/friends_dont_let_friends_use_feedster.php","title":{"rendered":"Friends don&#8217;t let friends use Feedster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has been reading my blog for a while know that I&#8217;ve got no time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedster.com\/\">Feedster<\/a> and don&#8217;t mind saying so.  My previous posts on this sad sad service:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/06\/19\/feeds_i_unsubscribed_from.php\">Feeds I Unsubscribed From<\/a> &#8211; 19 June 2004<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/10\/16\/feedster.php\">Feedster<\/a> &#8211; 16 October 2004<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/11\/11\/more_feedstercom_sillyness.php\">More Feedster Sillyness<\/a> &#8211; 11 November 2004<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/04\/03\/feedster_still_sux.php\">Feedster still Sux<\/a> &#8211; 3 April 2005<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/04\/03\/feedster_sux_in_safari_as_well.php\">Feedster Sux in Safari as well<\/a> &#8211; 3 April 2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So why do I rehash all this again now? Because if you look at those entries you&#8217;ll always see someone from Feedster post about how they&#8217;re improving, how I shouldn&#8217;t give up on them etc, but really it&#8217;s all just talk.<br \/>\nTonight while trying to figure out why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsdupdates.com\/\">BSDUpdates<\/a> is down I tried a Google blogs search but found little recent info, so I figured I&#8217;ll give Feedster another try, big mistake.<br \/>\nIt also had very little useful content so I&#8217;m inclined to think people just don&#8217;t blog about BSDUpdates &#8211; fair enough.  The problem is though Feedster is still broken!<br \/>\nFirst I do a search for &#8216;bsdupdates&#8217; using the main feedster page, that went well and I found some stuff, then I tried the blog search button which will restrict the search to just blog posts.  First there is the fact that the user experience is crap, if you do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> search for <i>whatever<\/i> and click on one of the other search modes &#8211; like Images &#8211; it will know you searched for <i>whatever<\/i> and show you results immediately.  Not feedster, no way, you have to just type your query in again.<br \/>\nSo I type it in again, and get a page full of result, it looks like the screenshot below, all good so far.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/feedster2-03112005.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>\nSee, next page, more results, all good there is hope for finding something useful, so I press on the next button.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/feedster1-03112005.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>\nWtf? Maintenance? Seems more like their default internal server error page is claiming every problem is Maintenance related because this is not the first time I&#8217;ve seen it, and I don&#8217;t use this service often.  It&#8217;s a bit like when the Underground in London says something is &#8216;Signal Failure&#8217; it&#8217;s just something they say.  The real problem seems to be database related.<br \/>\nSo back a page, reload, do the search again which gives me (immediately, right in the middle of their &#8216;maintenance&#8217; no less) a page similar to the first one.  Try the next button again to get the promised more results:<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/feedster3-03112005.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>\nAnd there it is, nothing, empty page, no results. Complete. Waste. Of. Time.<br \/>\nIf you are still using Feedster you really should be doing yourself a favor and jump ship.  There are a number of competitors, I can&#8217;t even list them all but here are some: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.clusty.com\/\">Clusty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogdigger.com\/\">Blogdigger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogpulse.com\/\">Blogpulse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/daypop.com\/\">Daypop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/\">Google Blog Search<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.search.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo!<\/a> and many more.  Natural selection on the internet is a great thing, Feedster had a chance to do it right but they didn&#8217;t. The big boys will run over them, rejoice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has been reading my blog for a while know that I&#8217;ve got no time for Feedster and don&#8217;t mind saying so. My previous posts on this sad sad service: Feeds I Unsubscribed From &#8211; 19 June 2004 Feedster &#8211; 16 October 2004 More Feedster Sillyness &#8211; 11 November 2004 Feedster still Sux &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}