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My offer to Google Reader

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Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by magicalist »

I'm a long time, heavy user of Reader, but as a disclaimer: my usage consists of the letters j, k, m, and v, so I'll admit that I don't care at all about the lost social features, and my short cuts and usage patterns remain unchanged.

This article seems no different than any other of the reader articles submitted in the last few days (especially the one by the other former googler that worked on reader).

If his offer were serious because he really really cared about the product, he would have sent an email.

If his offer were serious because he really really cared about other users, he would have posted some user scripts (which lots of others have already done).

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by confusedreader »

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't really understand the huge community backlash to the Reader rework. I spend hours in reader every day, and it wasn't until they added in G+ that it actually became easy to share.The addition made it so I could share within a community I was already involved in rather then a few people in some disconnected Reader community. From my perspective they actually removed the useless and unnecessary functions that made the old reader impossible to use to actually share content. I see it as a good first step, and when G+ actually has a solid API to build upon, they can evolve Reader to use it.

Also, rabble rabble rabble too much white space rabble rabble rabble. I tried some of the community created userscripts to see if the "UI improvements" people were making actually helped and in the large part they don't as the people writing them don't seem to understand UI design.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by porterhaney »

I miss most the confined, small but important social network I had within G.reader. I wish, in addition to a better UX the follow/subscribe to others function was imported into the circles concept and reintegrated into G.reader.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by cavalcade »

Wow this is a bit naive and egotistical. I HATE the new google reader but to think that it takes ONE man outside of Google to fix their product is downright silly. The redesign was made in the context of Google's near-future plans to ignore that is ridiculous. A more constructive move is to provide a short checklist of things to re-consider or build/recommend a competing product. Its not like Google cant improve it more soon to find a good middle-ground.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by rkudeshi »

confusedreader wrote: post #5

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't really understand the huge community backlash to the Reader rework. I spend hours in reader every day, and it wasn't until they added in G+ that it actually became easy to share.The addition made it so I could share within a community I was already involved in rather then a few people in some disconnected Reader community. From my perspective they actually removed the useless…

How big is your display? I'm on a 13" MBP (1280x800) and there's significantly less space allocated to reading now, which is my greatest frustration.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by sp332 »

cavalcade wrote: post #7

Wow this is a bit naive and egotistical. I HATE the new google reader but to think that it takes ONE man outside of Google to fix their product is downright silly. The redesign was made in the context of Google's near-future plans to ignore that is ridiculous. A more constructive move is to provide a short checklist of things to re-consider or build/recommend a competing product. Its not like Google cant improve it m…

I think the point is that (apparently) no one at google is paying attention to how the new features integrate with the actual experience of using the Reader. He can fix that, at least.
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