Google Reader & Google Apps for Your Domain don’t play nice
Posted February 2nd, 2007 in Technology
We’ve been using Google Apps for Your Domain to handle elsewares.com email for months now, and we love it. And I spend a lot of time using Google Reader, which rocks. But there are a few bugs that have popped up while using these at the same time.
1) I can access Google Reader via google.com/reader/view or reader.google.com/hosted/elsewares.com - but these urls seem to access different accounts I didn’t even know I had. Feeds I subscribe to via one account sometimes don’t show up in the other one. And sometimes they do. So it’s all very confusing. Google Reader is not part of the Google Apps for Your Domain service (or it isn’t yet) so I don’t know what the deal is here.
I had a few really interesting posts “starred” in Reader. Now they’re gone, no matter how I log in. I don’t remember what they were exactly, and it drives me crazy that I’ll never know.
2) If I click on a mailto: link in Google Reader, I get this error:
I can’t be the only person having this issue with Google Apps, can I?
I know that I use two gmail accounts and google reader and I have lots of strange issues. I’m assuming that google reader uses the same cookie that gmail, google docs, and blogger use. So, when you go to google reader, and then in a different tab or window, log into a different gmail account, even on a separate domain, your session with google reader is lost. Which, it doesn’t realize until it tries to update your read feeds, or save a favorited post.
You might just try keeping reader open in a totally separate browser. Use safari or IE if you’re normally using firefox, etc.
I signed up for a google account using my gafyd email account. It is a little bit of a hack, but it seems to work well. I got the suggestion off of google groups.
The caviot is if you change your password with your gafyd account, be sure to change the password for the corresponding google account, otherwise it is really confusing.