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

Post by parfe » Mon, Oct 31, 2011, 10:40 PM UTC

phillmv wrote: post #12

GBKS wrote: post #10

The new design is definitely cleaner and consistent with other Google products, but it is not a design focused on providing a great reading experience (as the product name "Reader" suggests). It is basically the Gmail layout and interaction model, just different content. I wish Google had taken an approach that deeply focused on the content first (as Flipboard does).

KEEPING IN MIND that I generally hate people who whine every time every thing changes, as someone who is fairly invested in Google Reader, it pains me that this has been a UI step backwards. It's lot less usable; defaulting every link to black, like the rest of the interface, makes scanning for links really painful, and there's still a good 130px of useless interface chrome that is taking up space for no good reason.…

Post by KTamas » Mon, Oct 31, 2011, 10:50 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #42

thesethings wrote: post #37

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 l…

Well, create a Tag, get that Tag's feed from its Details and Statistics page, then your friends can subscribe to it as any other feed.

Post by hokkos » Mon, Oct 31, 2011, 10:51 PM UTC

andybak wrote: post #39

efraim wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Isn't that public sharing only?

Post by thesethings » Mon, Oct 31, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

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.

Post by hosh » Mon, Oct 31, 2011, 10:56 PM UTC

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.