February 24, 2008

Bloglines Has Stopped Updating Feeds - Make a Backup

Update: Bloglines seems to active again, the plumber must have been busy. Still, making a backup won’t hurt.

My favorite RSS Reader Bloglines has stopped updating the feeds. It’s a weird experience to see all those blogs you have subscribed to and none has a new post. It can’t be the Oscar event I thought.

From the bloglines forum I understand this non-updating has been going on for some time now and there’s even a rumor mentioned in this forum that Ask, the owner of Bloglines, intends to discontinue the service.

Whether that’s true or not (It would surprise me if it was true), it made me realize that it was time to export/back up my feeds in case this hiccup continues in order to be able to move them to another webbased RSS Reader.

In case you’re a Bloglines user (and you have likely come directly to this website as otherwise you probably won’t read this) and like to export your feeds, here’s how. (more…)

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