{"id":705,"date":"2008-09-14T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T19:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2015-02-25T20:37:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:37:26","slug":"sitemeter-is-crap-bloglines-isnt-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Sitemeter is crap, Bloglines isn&#8217;t working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>** Updated **<\/p>\n<p>As Citronella has so kindly pointed out in her comment to this post, I&#8217;m thrilled (and I&#8217;m sad enough to actually mean that word!) to say that Sitemeter have rolled back their &#8216;upgrade&#8217;. It&#8217;s worth mentioning when someone listens and these guys appear to have listened. So yay to them. And thanks from me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>** Original post**<\/p>\n<p>And so the joys of Web2.0 are brought home with a whimper, not a bang this Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Sitemeter&#8217;s &#8216;upgrade&#8217; has to be one of the most awful pieces of &#8216;improved functionality&#8217; inflicted on a user community since&#8230; [thinks long and hard]&#8230; actually I can&#8217;t think of a piece of rubbish functionality that measures up to Sitemeter&#8217;s dire &#8216;improvement&#8217; that&#8217;s good enough to use as a comparison.<\/p>\n<p>What Sitemeter seems to have forgotten are the golden rule of business:<\/p>\n<p>1. If your product is good, leave it alone<br \/>\n2. If you break the trust with your users, they&#8217;ll vote with their feet and you&#8217;ll lose them <em>and<\/em> your reputation.<\/p>\n<p>And that other stalwart of the Web2.0 service providing community Bloglines is becoming very unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>And is anyone else noticing RSS feeds refreshing when no new content has been added in to the feeds?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** Updated ** As Citronella has so kindly pointed out in her comment to this post, I&#8217;m thrilled (and I&#8217;m sad enough to actually mean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}