toblix Posted May 12, 2011 Anyone else use Netvibes? I've been using it as sort of a second monitor dashboard for years, and it's been pretty good overall. They've made a lot of changes and added functionality I don't care about, but I don't mind since none of them has come in the way of letting me have a huge list of feeds that are updated live. None of them has come in the way of letting me have a huge list of feeds that are updated live, that is... until now. For some god damn reason they've decided to save the planet by at seemingly random times fading the whole thing to black and show a huge message telling me how they're saving the planet by throttling the communications with the server. The sentiment is probably fine (though it may just even out the increased power usage of fading millions of screens to black, I'm no mathematician) but now it's suddenly useless to me. Instead of letting me glance at it from time to time to check for updates, I now have to click like an idiot and wait for it to refresh. I guess what I'm asking is, do any of you use something similar to Netvibes (web based feed aggregation) but that isn't completely useless? edit: I've been doing a little searching around and it turns out the whole energy saving mode might be so controversial they'll have to disable it or make it optional. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thompson Posted May 13, 2011 edit: I've been doing a little searching around and it turns out the whole energy saving mode might be so controversial they'll have to disable it or make it optional. Reminds me of Blackle, there was a lot of arguing about whether it really saves any energy. I tend to believe that it does not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
