The New Bloglines Beta: Habit Breaking Changes
I tried the new Bloglines Beta today. Two of the most obvious changes (changes that I noticed within 10 seconds of using it) are:
- The "Keep New []" checkbox is gone. In its place is a "[] Read" checkbox, just like Google Reader.
- Whin I click on an empty feed in the left nav, instead of getting a regular feed page (only with zero entries) on the right panel, I get a generic feed independent page.
These improvements break a couple of my blog reading habits, which I'll state as use cases:
Use Case 1: Marking a feed as read
- Click on the feed in the left nav
Use Case 2: Visit the website of a feed
- Click on the feed in the left nav
- Click on the title link in the right panel
Granted, these two use cases must have not been the original use cases for the developers of Bloglines. Otherwise they won't be broken in a new version. However, these are implied use cases from the overall behavior of the current version of the software. I just happen to depend on these implied use cases.
Back when I did a comparison between Bloglines and Google Readers, Use Case 1 was one of the reason I favored Bloglines. I'm not sure if I should redo that evaluation.
One thing that I liked is the new "3-pane view" that's available in Yahoo!Mail:
