I am testing it all the time

You will also notice in my next post in about 20 seconds that I am building up an OPML file that is actually worth testing it with.

200 listings on some content seems to be overkill, when it is something everyone is talking about.

If it is something not being talked about, with the exact terms or tagging, I am not getting much in the way of related content.

I am not sure whether that is the fault of the software, or the way many SEO blogs don’t understand and use tagging.

Once I have some data I will certainly get back to you.

There was also a little bit of delay, because for some reason it wasn’t picking up data – I think you guys were arawe of that, because after a couple of relatively fast updates things fixed themselves.

I am sure top bloggers are doing great being in the default lists, that seems to happen with every service.

As an example I seem to remember John Batelle has 10,000 Rojo subscribers listed, and I had just one last time I checked my Feedburner stats.

We’re committed to making blogrovr an increasingly useful best friend for people reading blogs, to help you find out all you really want to know from those you care about, as well as a way for blog authors to reach out to a wide and interested audience. Some of our tech top choices are getting an additional 5-6k readers from readers opting into our recommended tech bundle, for example.

I hope you try us again, and we’re always open and reactive to suggestions for improving your experience.

Yours,
Marc

Good point, and it’s a deal! We just added one more zero, indeed: try us out, and give me more of your feedback.

For the record, it’s even better than that: we never had any limitation on how many blogs Rovr fetches for you: you could always, and still can, feed us as many feeds as you want, not just 100 or 1,000.

The only limitation (just now bumped to 1,000) is on how many entries we’ll ingest when you submit an OPML file: we only take in 1,000 entries at a time. Why? We do quite a bit of validation on incoming feeds, and that can become quite lengthy: we didn’t want to go away for 2 hours and let our users worry we’d lost their list!

The last thing we want is be perceived as elitist, and you are absolutely correct: the whole point is for you to give us your list of favorite blogs, then forget about us until we find a post that covers the page you’re on.

@Andrew:

Argh, what a shameful, basic bug! My apologies to you and just about half the population with an email address. Thanks for pointing this out, actually. We just fixed the offending piece of Javascript (make sure you do a full refresh of the page!), and your email address should now be good enough for us! Sorry about that.

I first of all tried with a larger opml file, and it imported only the first 100 items.

I then cut the opml in half, and only entered the second section for import.

The system didn’t import the new OPML addresses.

It wasn’t a case of pagination, on the second page I still have the few sites that were assigned by my browsing habits (which wasn’t very accurate, I am not sure where you get that data from)

You definitely seem to have a hard limit of 100 user submitted items via OPML and splitting the opml into chunks doesn’t help.

Take care,
Paula

Andrew, I don’t think we even use your email address, so that must not have been the problem. Both of you are welcome to write me at marc at activeweave.com to help get set up if you like. cheers,
marc meyer, ceo activeweave