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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
#62The 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…
I can't agree more. At least they allow us to download our data as JSON file. I used the sharing feature a lot . I just downloaded my shared-items.json file and it is 56.3MB large! I already tried Tiny Tiny RSS and NewsBlur but I don't really like them. There's rssLounge left, I'll try it tomorrow if I have enough time. Does anyone knows another one of these opensource webapp feed aggragator? For now, I'll continue s…
Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing
#63It looks cleaner, but overall it's less readable. The old Google Reader featured distinct boxes for each news article. But now Google got rid of this so the articles all sort of glue together and the only way to distinguish articles is by the focus effect and the headings. Also I'm not sure what prompted Google to move the star button from the left of the heading to the right. Titles are variable-length so it doesn't…
Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing
#64Took 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.
Yeah, I had a few people complaining in my twitter timeline and I thought, "Everyone always bitches when something new gets rolled out. It can't be that bad, come on." I logged in and I wasn't impressed but it was he lack of read vs. unread that pushed me over the edge.
Here's the main kicker of that: What's the point of marking the unread count on the left hand sidebar if there's no way to see which ones in the main view? This is what makes me think it's half-baked. They half-removed a feature.
Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing
#65The new system (integration with +) is rational and a superset of the old system, as far as I can tell.
I also choose to consider this as a precursor to many rational changes/extensions to Google Reader.
Let me be clear: I am sooo glad that I can finally direct Google Reader shared items to specific groups, so I don't have to spam everyone who follows me with every single item, which pretty much guaranteed that 80% of my feed was irrelevant/stupid/boring to any given person.
Now all I need are public, topical feeds that are subscribable/discoverable. RSS, in other words.
Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing
#66The 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…
We are working on startup: http://intigi.com . You can subscribe to your RSS or Twitter feeds and then filter the feeds by your interests (i.e., using keywords). In terms of social features, you can make any interest public and share it with others. You can also follow or fork any of the public interests (like Github). We are in early stages with the social features (and overall product) and would really appreciate a…
Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing
#67How do I turn my friends' Google+ posts into RSS that can be consumed by Google Reader? Google+ does not seem to advertise RSS feeds. Someone wrote an AppEngine service [1] to transcode Google+ to RSS, but they shut it down after Google raised the AppEngine feeds. [1] http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/13/google-plus-rss-feeds/
A Googler on the G+ developer group said that atom support is planned. Until then there is: http://plusfeed2.appspot.com/
Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing
#68I was part of a community of people I liked, and now, after I clicked a button, that was gone. I miss those people already. I don't recall anything on the text that clearly said "oh yeah, stuff will be gone, including your friends, and we meant to do that."
If I want to share now, I have to do so publicly with the Internet or click a "share" button way in the upper right and then build up groups. There does not seem to be an easy way to get my friends back and to get them into a reader feed. I apparently have to look at my G+ feed if a friend sends me an item. I do not seem to have any convenient way to filter out those useful posts from all the spam of G+.
I had easy access to search a list of things that I had found interesting over the years, and now, I guess I'm going to have to find another program to even look at that. I do appreciate that it was not outright destroyed, so thanks for that kindness.
Visually, I'm baffled. Apparently, grey and slightly darker grey are now visually effective colors for distinguishing things. I can, of course, adjust to this but overall it does not instill me with confidence.
I am, obviously, now looking for a way back to what I had this morning. If someone figures that out, I'll thank them. If it's something that needs support, I'll support it.
Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are working on startup: http://intigi.com . You can subscribe to your RSS or Twitter feeds and then filter the feeds by your interests (i.e., using keywords). In terms of social features, you can make any interest public and share it with others. You can also follow or fork any of the public interests (like Github). We are in early stages with the social features (and overall product) and would really appreciate a…
I have no problem with the new Reader, but this sounds cool, signing up and trying it out :)