Google Reader is starting to suck.
12th April 2011
Right now I have 28 ‘starred’ items that cannot be unstarred — I can click on the star, and it goes away, but when I do a refresh, there they all are again, big as life.
My ‘home’ screen claims that I have 212 unread messages, while the ‘message’ screen denies that I have any unread mail at all.
And, of course, there is no effective feedback mechanism by which to tell Google that there’s a problem. (Oh, Google has ‘Help Forums’, but they appear to exist mainly to allow Google users a way to blow off steam — there are complaints about the ‘cannot unstar’ problem over six months old, and there is no indication that anyone at Google is even listening, much less working on it.)
UPDATE: My lurking unread messages that don’t actually exist have shrunk to 189. Perhaps it’s like a bathtub that only drains when nobody is looking. My ‘starred’ items are indestructible, however. Perhaps I ought to notify the Pentagon….