Google Reader is Broken
I’m not sure if there’s some functionality change that I missed or if it really is broken, but something is really wrong with Google Reader. And it’s been broken for weeks.
Here’s the problem: I go to Reader, and click on All Items. It tells me there are 95 items. I scroll through them, or click “n” to move to the next item for each item, and while I am seeing some unread items, I’m also seeing a lot of items I have previously read.
To read all my 95 read items, I have to look at maybe 300-400 items.
If this problem was affecting a lot of people I’d expect to see a big thread on the Something is Broken help forum, but there’s nothing there.
Is anyone else seeing this behaviour? It’s making me consider looking for another way to read newsfeeds.
March 13th, 2010 at 8:34 am
It’s not broken [ http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69973 ]:
Navigation
j/k item down/up selects the next/previous item in the list
space/shift-space page down/up moves the page down/up
n/p scan down/up in list view, selects the next item without opening it
March 13th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Having the same thing happening here!
March 13th, 2010 at 9:19 am
I’ve noticed this too, and I have a feeling it’s related to web sites that use Feedburner to deliver RSS feeds. Not sure but it seems to be on the originating site side, not on the Google Reader side
March 13th, 2010 at 9:42 am
If you select Show All items – “all items” then select “new items” it refreshes and shows only new items.