Currently I have to use "#12C" to make links blue so that I can actually read the posts! Reader UI is not consistent in that both G+ and Google uses some blue for the links and heading where as reader just uses black.
My offer to Google Reader
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#22All I will say about the redesign is: Jesus christ so much WHITE. My eyes BURN. BUUUURN.
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#23Dear God in Heaven please let them take him up on it. Now that I'm a few days into the new redesign my workflow has become 1. Read RSS feeds. 2. Research RSS feed readers.
Me too, I am definitely in the market for a new RSS reader now.
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#24I'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…
His offer is serious because he used to work on Google Reader.
(especially the one by the other former googler that worked on reader).
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#25Maybe 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…
I notice your account is ten minutes old. Is this an astroturf? A PR troll? ...Can you really tell me it got easier to share now that it's G+ and not Reader? One man's "community [they were] already involved in" is another man's "disconnected community." Speak for yourself I had a carefully cultivated list of cranks, miscreants, and technologic misanthropes who found some very interesting content and had some very in…
I notice your account is ten minutes old. Is this an astroturf? A PR troll?
Don't be rude. Dissing people for having newish accounts breaks the guidelines.
...Can you really tell me it got easier to share now that it's G+ and not Reader?
Yes. It works fine for a lot of people, and observing this does not invalidate your complaints.
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#26I was pretty excited about Google moving sharing to Google+ as I like Google+ and I think making it easy to share will be crucial to success. That being said, I hate the new Google Reader. I used it primarily as sharing tool, and the new sharing makes that more difficult. I think two fixes would make this better: 1) Being able to share easily with different circles. While I might be okay sharing publicly something in…
Re 1: You can choose which circle to share to in the share dialog. It is just like creating a normal post on the G+ homepage.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
24in Monitor. I could see how it might not scale down well, maybe they need to introduce the UI scaling features that Gmail has that might help with a lot of peoples issues. The userscripts I tried basically just removed a lot of margins and padding around content, so maybe those might suit you on a small display?
If I remember correctly, Google engineers are given the choice of one 30" monitor or a two 24" monitors, which is what the new Google Reader was presumably built on and perhaps optimized for. However, given the fact that laptops dominate computer sales nowadays, I'm downright amazed they didn't test it further on small screens.
If you listen very carefully, you can almost hear "We realize that Google Reader is not for everyone ..."
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#28I will put my current projects on hold to ensure that Google Reader keeps its place as the premier news reader, and raises the bar of what a social newsreader can be.
That's very nice, but I think 'git checkout -f PRE_POOCH_SCREW' would probably work just as well.
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#29I'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…
First, a user script is a poor solution because it reaches a small minority of people, is limited in the functionality it can add, and would frequently not survive updates. It's a band-aid, and a poor one at that.
Second, what makes you think I didn't send an email?
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#30The new Google Docs was just as bad, but at least they gave us the option of using the classic design.