Grazr feed reader

June 21st, 2006 - 11:31 | 2 comments

I’ve been toying with replacing some of my (in need of updating) blogroll with the javascript feed reader from Grazr.com. It has a decent interface, and is fast enough not to be annoying. I’m trying it with Bloggers4Labour links on my front page, and it seems to fit into the sidebar ok. I don’t know what happens if grazr.com is down, though - if it’s anything like other javascript includes it may stall the whole page.

Here’s a slightly larger version, with a subset of my own FeedLounge subscriptions. I can’t find a way to sort an OPML file alphabetically, so it’s in a weird order that’s indicative of nothing
edit: two minutes after posting, it appears to have stopped…hmmm
edit 2: is happy now

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2 Responses to “Grazr feed reader”

1 Adam Green Jun 21st, 2006 at 1:51 pm

Thanks for trying out Grazr. We too are concerned about the issue of a stalled Grazr.com server slowing down web pages with the Grazr widget. To address this we are reworking the architecture of the Grazr widget to “fail quietly,” meaning to have little or no impact on a web page if the server can’t be reached, other than not appearing. We aren’t completely there, but we are serious about this goal. We are also building out a more robust server infrastructure with multiple machines in different parts of the country and various DNS techniques to provide the highest level of availability possible.

- Adam Green
CEO, Grazr Corp.
2 Andrew Jun 21st, 2006 at 11:51 pm

That sounds great. Thanks for the quick response!

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