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New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by barrkel »

andybak wrote: post #21

Took me a while to realise that you had to click the share button in the far top right to share the currently viewed item. The physical separation between the item you're sharing and the screen element you have to click to share it strikes me as rather counter-intuitive.

Woah. I kept looking for this share button you were talking about - I completely blanked on the actual Google header bar, which at this point I've mentally "edited out" on Google sites. My first thought was that that button would do something stupid - that it would share "Google Reader", not the currently viewed post.

My problem with the new Reader is the lack of visual indication of read vs unread items.

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by efraim »

andybak wrote: post #21

Took me a while to realise that you had to click the share button in the far top right to share the currently viewed item. The physical separation between the item you're sharing and the screen element you have to click to share it strikes me as rather counter-intuitive.

You can press +1 and then share to google+ in the lower left corner.

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by udfalkso »

Back in 2007 I built a social RSS reader called Feed Each Other (http://feedeachother.com). It was actually pretty good, but I had to give up on it because I ran out of money, Google Reader was slowly stealing all my features, and I found it very hard to convince people to switch from GR.

It had stuff like:

- "Circles" aka, letting you group your contacts however you like and see what each group shared with you and share stuff with all your contacts or just certain groups.

- Feed and user discovery and recommendations. "People who read X also read:" and "Look who subscribes to this feed" type of thing.

- Keyboard shortcuts, auto discovery, opml import/export etc. All the usual feed reader stuff.

Check out this old intro video I made for it (social/interesting parts start around 1:40). The design in the video is out-dated though, it ended up looking like this, http://feedeachother.com/screenshot_500.png. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Ltwh4AO_w&feature=youtu...

Maybe I should turn it back on? Any takers?

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by edderly »

seltzered_ wrote: post #28
edderly wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More bars than Dublin...I agree, the waste of space is annoying. I can't even think of the last time I wanted to search my RSS feeds and it's taking up a chunk of space. On a 13inch Macbook add the Mac App bar, Chrome (tabs + search-url + bookmarks toolbar) a third of the readable area is covered with "bars".

same setup, i used the minimalist reader plugin to make life easier: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pgpppbiipcfcldpgcj... NOTE: I haven't checked to see if this plugin still works on the new google reader design.

Thankyou! It does appear to work.

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by squealingrat »

sahaj wrote: post #27
hosh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sharing works. Sharing just does not work without publicly +1 the reader item. (This is a big -1 for me).

As the current top comment notes: You click the "Share..." button on the G+ (black)bar.

True, but the issue there is that it now takes about 4 mouse clicks that used to be a single shortcut. To set this link blog (squealingrat.org/new) up all I needed to do was feed my Google Reader shared items into the Wordpress blog.

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by thesethings »

The no-sharing/discovery thing has hit me hard.

If anybody out there has a social RSS reader start-up, feel free to reply to this and advertise your service. I will drag my friends to it along with me.

(Yes, I use Twitter, Instapaper, news aggregate sites, etc. Yes social software has changed how i would otherwise discover links/news. But I still need an RSS reader, and the passive sharing in old Google Reader is a layer of social that one takes for granted in almost any app. I get why they took it out (they think they're helping G+), but it doesn't work for me.)

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by andybak »

efraim wrote: post #32
andybak wrote: post #21

Took me a while to realise that you had to click the share button in the far top right to share the currently viewed item. The physical separation between the item you're sharing and the screen element you have to click to share it strikes me as rather counter-intuitive.

You can press +1 and then share to google+ in the lower left corner.

Isn't that public sharing only?

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by icebraining »

squealingrat wrote: post #4

Sigh. I like the redesign (it's about time!) but I hate that they're turning off sharing. I use that to run my link blog, and now I'll have to figure out another workaround.

Well, you can create a new Tag, then go to "Details and Statistics" in the arrow right next to the Tag and get the feed URL for it. Then you can import that to your blog, and every item you put in that Tag will appear.
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