Bloglines and server errors
Like many other people, I just love Bloglines. I can’t imagine how else I’d keep track of the blogs I read (and I read them on three different computers, so browser internal solutions or client programs just wouldn’t work for me).
Today I encountered an annoying problem. My blogs both were down for a couple of hours due to a database issue (MySQL decided not to allow connects from the local machine as there were too many connection failures (hu???)) and bloglines got an invalid page when trying to open my feeds (basically, the WordPress error page). After that bloglines immediately stopped crawling my sites and shows the little red “[!]” behind the feeds in its display. And it appears that there is no way to make bloglines aware that the issue has been fixed and to get them to re-crawl the feed.
That seems like a bug to me. In case anyone has figured out a solution, please let me know (I sent them email, but they promise a response “within about two business days” - ahh, the problem with free services).
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I’ve had that happen to me before. Annoying.
Try to ping Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/ping) to see if that kickstarts it. I’ve heard from other people that this doesn’t always work, but it’s worth a try.
Good luck! :-)
You could always use this time to consider a switch to Google Reader… ;-)