I have been a heavy user of MyYahoo! for RSS feeds. If it worked, which it did for a very long time, it would be great. Lots of configurations to satisfy the user.

I had seven subscriptions to organize my feeds: news, computing, Classial music and Public Radio, etc, etc.

But some of my subscriptions started getting a message like “Oops – come back later”. Those are not the exact words.

So, some months ago, I went to them and told them. Most of my messages were ignored. But, finally they said it was my problem, too many feeds and too much configuration in any one subscription. They basically told me to simplify my requirements and also to use the available tabs to break things up – for them. So, first, I tried their suggestions. They did not work.

But, hey, the product should be useful. No matter how many feeds per subscription I have and no matter how much configuration I use, their product should just work.

Just problem after problem.

If I can not get my feeds, then no matter how much I like the product, it is useless to me.

So, I have switched to Google Reader. I am configured for only new feeds and no more than one week. This is not the same level of configuration I could get with MyYahoo!

But it works.

If I had those problems with MyYahoo!, then so did many others. I do not do anything that is unique.

They have no forum for users to discuss problems.

I even did a post to my weblog, thinking maybe they have alerts set. No luck.

I am very happy with Google Reader; but I would be happier with MyYahoo!.