Rojo Updates Look and Feel: Reviewed

Posted on September 19, 2006, under Development.

So after a day or two of using the new Rojo, I must say I really do not like it. It really seems buggy, and temporarily I am going back to Bloglines.

First, they really changes the UI to the point where they removed features, which is a no, no. If you are going to upload a UI, OK; but never remove any features even if you think there is only one user using them. I used to be able to view all of my feed on one page, and just scroll through all of the stories. This was great, I didn’t have to go down into each tag and view things separately. Now I can still view all my tags on one page, but I can no longer mark them as read. In order to mark stories as read, I have to view the stories by tags.

Second, it’s buggy. The new Rojo appears to load the stories via AJAX dynamically. Well sometimes I get a blank page and have to refresh to get things to appear, or in some instances I have to log out and clear my cookies. I do not know what’s going on, but it appears that things are not going the way they were planned.

I really like Rojo and prefer it over the stale Bloglines, but I can’t miss my news just because someone decided to fix something that wasn’t broken.

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