I’m looking for an alternative to Google Reader and decided to give NewsBlur a try, but it’s having a lot of technical problems. It errored three times before it let me sign up, then it kept erroring when I tried importing my Google Reader subscriptions before finally working when I manually uploaded the OPML file. It repeatedly errors when I try to connect to Twitter or Facebook and I haven’t gotten either of those connections to work yet, apparently. I tried enabling the 12 feeds that I’m allowed for the free version, but it even errors out on that! I finally decided to check my console and it says it cannot connect to the realtime PubSub. I’m on Windows Firefox 19. I’m hoping this kind of performance isn’t typical…?
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Definitely not typical. Servers have been crushed by load since the Google Reader announcement. Suggest you check out http://twitter.com/newsblur for updates.
It’s not typical, check the @NewsBlur twitter feed. Massive influx of users = server meltdown. It will get better.