Bloglines Folders
As many of you are aware by way of my previous posts or big mouth, I'm a huge fan of the Bloglines RSS aggregation service. It's much better than having any aggregator on just one computer, as I often find myself moving from computer to computer every few hours. I have a complaint though, of which I'll shortly be emailing it to them.
Dear Bloglines,
Hello and Happy Holidays. First off let me say that I'm a big fan of the service you provide and I'm not sure how you've been able to keep it free, but I'm thankful. I do have an issue with the creation of new folders though. Why do you make it so hard for me to make a simple folder? I've been a user for close to a year now and I love the overall simplicity (in my eyes) of your service. I am amazed however at how cleverly you hid the "create a new folder' function. To put you in my shoes, I had created folders many months back and use them as a great way to further sort my feeds. Tonight though I decided I needed a ".Net" blogs folder, something I thought would take me seconds. After playing around with just about everything I thought imaginable (including searching Help for "folder"), I was ready to scream in agony. Than it clicked that you may have buried it awkwardly inside of the Edit function. I went and looked and sure there it was under "Move To: New Folder". The reason it took me so long to find that? It's buried in the list of my already existing folders. Please do something to make this feature easier to find, don't bury it with my existing folders or at least make a note of this in help section.
Sincerely,
-Jeramey Jannene-
Dear Bloglines,
Hello and Happy Holidays. First off let me say that I'm a big fan of the service you provide and I'm not sure how you've been able to keep it free, but I'm thankful. I do have an issue with the creation of new folders though. Why do you make it so hard for me to make a simple folder? I've been a user for close to a year now and I love the overall simplicity (in my eyes) of your service. I am amazed however at how cleverly you hid the "create a new folder' function. To put you in my shoes, I had created folders many months back and use them as a great way to further sort my feeds. Tonight though I decided I needed a ".Net" blogs folder, something I thought would take me seconds. After playing around with just about everything I thought imaginable (including searching Help for "folder"), I was ready to scream in agony. Than it clicked that you may have buried it awkwardly inside of the Edit function. I went and looked and sure there it was under "Move To: New Folder". The reason it took me so long to find that? It's buried in the list of my already existing folders. Please do something to make this feature easier to find, don't bury it with my existing folders or at least make a note of this in help section.
Sincerely,
-Jeramey Jannene-
15 Comments:
At December 22, 2004 11:36 PM , Caitlin said...
i'm going to have to say your are PROBABLY the only one who really wants that feature to be easier. lazy bastard. lets just look at it this way, you had a challenge, and now you concured it, didn't that cofusing 15 minutes of your day make you feel better about yourself? you're amazing. haha
At December 22, 2004 11:46 PM , Jeramey said...
My goal is so that someone else doesn't have to waste so much of their time.
At December 23, 2004 11:39 AM , Mark said...
Thanks for the comment! We're always looking for ways to make Bloglines easier to use. Clearly we have some work to do with creating folders, and we'll look into making that easier to find.
At January 09, 2005 4:09 PM , Fran said...
Thanks for that. I have been trying to figure out how to make folders for ages....now how to put them in a certain order...can it be done...wanders off to fiddle
At February 02, 2005 6:14 PM , Trey said...
Thanks for the info. I googled the question and found this post. It's a simple solution, but I wasn't finding it by myself!
At February 11, 2005 7:55 PM , Anonymous said...
Thank you so much for you post. :) I would already quit if it were not for your post & google.
At March 09, 2005 2:56 PM , Carolyn said...
Thanks for this - you saved me a lot of time and frustrations.
At April 26, 2005 11:59 PM , Jay Jones said...
Hahaha! Thank you so much for explaining this, Jeramey! I was just about to write Bloglines a big, nasty note, and you saved them (and me) from the embarrassment. :)
Cheers!
At June 06, 2005 11:28 AM , Anonymous said...
I was looking for the create folder section for ages!!! Is bloglines stupid or what? Why haven't they done anything to remedy this!!!
At August 07, 2005 3:20 PM , csh11 said...
I spent 5 minutes looking and was starting to believe there was no folder creation button. Thanks Google :D
At August 11, 2005 11:34 AM , Anonymous said...
It's August 11 2005 8 motnhs past your first post and BlogLines haven't done enything to fix this thing.
Commo'n creating a new Folder Shouldn't be that difficult.
I spen't like half an hour trying to find thid feature.
At October 19, 2005 3:48 PM , Anonymous said...
Yes, thanks Google and thanks Jeramey!
At November 28, 2005 5:19 AM , Patrick Klaassen said...
Thank You....
I just spent 10 minutes looking for this function ...
... luckilly there is always Google ;-)
At January 25, 2006 11:17 AM , Brett said...
Google saved the day again, thanks for the tip Jeramey.
At February 03, 2006 3:32 PM , Anonymous said...
Thank you, Google, thank you, Jeramey.
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