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I just signed up for Earthlink’s myEarthLink Reader, because I’m always looking for a better way to read my feeds. I still really like Bloglines reader, as it keeps all my feeds in a nice neat organized folder like way. The export I made from Bloglines, to myEarthLink Reader, did not use any of these folders, it only imported all my feeds, and showed me what’s currently availible, while the robot behind the scenes went out and retrieved the rest of my feeds. I imported about 87 feeds, of which the Reader only knew about 16 sources. So I just added quite a bit to their known feeds I would say.
I’m still in the “I like to read feeds individually, and organized” method. You can still read the feeds individually, but they are not organized how I like to read. Overall if you like reading feeds mashed up together into pages, then you might like the “Recently Updated” feature. The Reader, also makes it easy for you to import/export your OPML, by clicking on settings, and choosing the appropriate link. Also making it easy to change how links are loaded, same window, or new window, and how much of the article you which to view, long/short.
After signing up for a free earthlink account, I noticed something is sorely missing from their navigation link back to the Reader, which is why I signed up.
I also noticed that while the account signup page only allows for password up to a length of 8 characters, the other login password fields, and such throughout the site allow for more seemingly unlimited number of characters, which breaks my most favorite, and much used Firefox extension, PwdHash.
As I end writing this the Reader Robot still has not completely added my feeds to the list. The 10 to 15 minutes which it said was needed is apparently more. No big deal, I’ll just comeback tomarrow, and hopefully they will be there. Of course the more and more people who use this reader, the more feeds availible for other readers, and no waiting for them.

[update] I’m just guessing here, but going from the ID given to my Livejournal blog, 2003, there is ~2000 feeds they know about.

[update] EarthLink’s Reader is also double requesting the feed my site also.

px.ns1.net 209.179.163.114 - - [14/Jul/2006:02:41:27 -0700] "GET //feed/ HTTP/1.1" 200 79791 "-" "myEarthlinkReader/1.0 (http://reader.earthlink.net/; 1 subscribers)" VLOG=-
px.ns1.net 209.179.163.114 - - [14/Jul/2006:02:41:28 -0700] "GET //feed/ HTTP/1.1" 200 79791 "-" "Java/1.5.0_06" VLOG=-

[update] I think it’s working very slowly.  It must need more time.
“We already know about 32 sources, so we’ve added them to Your Sources. There were 54 sources that were new to us, so we’ve sent our little robots out over the internet to go fetch articles for you. Give them about 10-15 minutes to retrieve everything, and you’ll have all 86 sources from your OPML file available.”

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