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Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by dsr_ »

rmccue wrote: post #55
ChuckMcM wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me too, I am definitely in the market for a new RSS reader now.

What are you looking for in a reader? I develop one called Lilina, which aims to be pluggable and themeable, so I'd love to know what sort of things I should be focusing on. (If you'd like to check it out, http://getlilina.org/ )

Here's my problem, and I recognize that it is my problem, not yours.

As soon as I see that something was written in PHP, my prejudices announce that it is probably badly written and full of security holes.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by morsch »

ianterrell wrote: post #3

Dear 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.

If you are 1) using Firefox and 2) a client-side RSS reader isn't a deal breaker, I would heartily recommend Brief%. It's a Firefox extension and, when I was looking around for RSS readers a year or two ago, it was the only one I found comfortable. It finally converted me to an RSS addict. Google Reader was all right, but I preferred a non-cloud solution, partly because I could manually refresh feeds and be certain they were up-to-date.

No social features, and no straightforward way to sync across computers/devices, so it's not at all a replacement for Google Reader in its entirety.

% https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by kasbah »

rmccue wrote: post #55
ChuckMcM wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me too, I am definitely in the market for a new RSS reader now.

What are you looking for in a reader? I develop one called Lilina, which aims to be pluggable and themeable, so I'd love to know what sort of things I should be focusing on. (If you'd like to check it out, http://getlilina.org/ )

I like it! It is nice and simple. I hope you keep it that way. I think it will be replacing my Google Reader. Two features that would make it perfect for me:

- Get rid of the sidebar completely and just allow to navigate through feeds with j and k keys.

- Ability to save posts for later.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by watty »

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…

Agreed, I like the new design and LOVE the new gmail design. I don't see anything to complain about once they add whitespace customization (like gmail).

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by ajryan »

wyclif wrote: post #42
magicalist wrote: post #4

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…

Don't forget the "f" key. Even more frequently used under the new design.

(fullscreen for those who are wondering - removes most of the wasteland of whitespace up top)

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by microcentury »

It really is astonishing how much bile and vitriol can be caused by a UI change. I guess it's a subset of the general dislike of change most people have. And it's also amazing how absolutely certain some people are that their own view is the right one.

I'm not a fan of the new UI yet, but I suspect in a few weeks I will have forgotten what the old one was like.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by jbigelow76 »

armaanahluwalia wrote: post #41
ttonelli wrote: post #34

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I couldn't take it anymore. After living for a while with the Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, which allowed me to simply hide some of the stupid white space, this last change made Reader essentially unusable. Today I switched to Bloglines, and I can keep using j, k, etc. I have to thank Google, however, for making my switch so easy with their export utility...

I don't know if this is considered blatent advertising or not. But I worked pretty hard on getting my chrome extension replacement for google reader done. I would love it if people would check it out. I made it because I couldn't stand the UI for Google Reader in the first place. I'm open to adding features like short cut keys ( fairly easy to implement) Please check it out at http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH

Was going to give it a whirl until I saw it was a Chrome extension. I use Chrome but thus far resisted any content formatting extensions. Extensions feel a little too ActiveX control-ish for me.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by AdamGibbins »

conesus wrote: post #57
DiabloD3 wrote: post #16

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The lack of padding is what makes it really bad. Its now entirely too cluttered. I quit using Google Reader, and I'm trying NewsBlur although its far from perfect, its a clear step up.

What could be improved about NewsBlur?

#1 thing stopping me from switching is the lack of stable reliable Android app with syncing and offline support.
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