Comments on: Technorati Favorites – Interesting New Message

By: Hunter Jackson

Hunter Jackson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:27:58 +0000

I have not, nor did I ever use the technorati favorites. is it still offline, did they modify it or what?

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:12:11 +0000

I am really hopeful with the change in management at Technorati that things might improve soon, because I too have been very frustrated with Technorati recently.

In fact they seemed to keep losing my favourites, I have more than 200 there, and from time to time I visit and it tells me I have no favourites. Considering the amount of time I took visiting all my favourite blogs and making them into favourites, I found this hugely insulting. :(

This is a better message at least, it’s reassuring to know they aren’t lost but it should have been done ages ago – it would have saved me a few panic moments at least. But as I type this I do have favourites there, so I’m not sure why this seems to be an intermittent thing.

My favourites may come and go as far as Technorati is concerned, but they are still my favourites in my heart, I guess!

Snoskred

By: John Hunter

John Hunter — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:40:37 +0000

Technorati has great features. However, too often, those features fail to perform as well as they should. I still find them the best blog search for many searches (sometime Google is ok). I hope Technorati is able to improve the performance so that features can work more effectively than have been.

By: Sigrid Peterson

Sigrid Peterson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:49:52 +0000

I too used OPML to uplink a list of Technorati favorites in the wake of Maki’s and others’ Technorati trains. Two out of 880 blogs ever favorited me back.

I am now gradually reducing the list to the 200 that Technorati now says it can handle. I can get access and load my favorites–and delete them, or delete and bookmark ones I like or might like–by doing the following:

On my home computer, which is perpetually signed in to Technorati, I type in http://www.technorati.com/faves/ . My history list will show http://www.technorati.com/faves/myusername/. Using the history list doesn’t work, and all the messages you mention come up. No adding or deleting is allowed, etc.
Clearing the URI back to faves/ sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t.

There are two kinds of “favorites” pages. One is a simple listing, and one is a virtual RSS Reader of the favorited blogs. The method I use requires working one’s way through the favorited blogs, reader style. That is actually a nice Technorati feature that means one doesn’t obliviously delete a blog that would be fascinating, like yours.

Using this method I have gone from 880 faves from the OPML I uploaded, to 518 or so, a little more than half way. I’m deleting your blog from my favorites, and putting it in my bookmarks, because there are so many posts in your blog and others that I like that they clog the first seven pages of my virtual reader. I want the felgercarb to bubble up, so I can delete it heartlessly. ;-}

I run a niche blog that deals with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Please feel free to link to me or favorite me (if you can), whether through conscience or interest.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:34:15 +0000

Technorati did not show my favorites for much longer period of time than on month. I say it close to three months now. After the favorite exchange “rush” created by Maki’s experiment and using the OPML trick for a shortcut I planned to clean up the favorites, but never was able to. It is nice to know that they are working on fixing the bug.

By: Mark Laymon

Mark Laymon — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:59:38 +0000

I am also unable to remove dead sites or add new sites to my account. The WTF pages are down too

By: Guadagnare

Guadagnare — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:41:46 +0000

I look forward to see it back.

I will try to add you in the meantime.

If you see nuovibusiness.com, could you reciprocate once is back working.

Thanks
Francesco