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Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by icebraining »

ktf wrote: post #95
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…

I'm a fellow j,k,m,v,f user, and my biggest complaint about the redesign is that it seems so much slower than before. Pressing j used to go to the next item almost immediately, now it's "press j... wait for it... next item... repeat." Makes rapidly going through unread items really irritating. Seems to be the same with the mousewheel too. Maybe it's a browser/OS problem or something (Ubuntu 11.10, Chromium 15). I hav…

Odd; it may be an illusion, but it actually seems faster here (Firefox 7 on Debian and Ubuntu). Not that it was slow, but now it's pretty much instantaneous.

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by icebraining »

Swizec wrote: post #12

For me the only problem with the new Reader is that too much space is wasted on the header thing and controls at the top. Before the redesign my articles would come up to almost the top of the browser window, now the top is uncomfortably low on my screen. I love everything else from the redesign, it's cleaner and generally takes up less space but the design should be more about the content and less about Reader.

I use the Google Reader IMHO[1] style. It's clean and doesn't take a lot of space.

[1]: http://userstyles.org/styles/55659/google-reader-imho

Re: My offer to Google Reader

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Post by kfury »

dylangs1030 wrote: post #59
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…

Figure it this way: instead of Kevin Fox being pretentious, he's making a public statement. Could he have sent Google a professional email? Yes (and I suspect he did, actually). More importantly, he is making a public statement as an ex-Googler, and thus as an authority on Google engineering, that sympathizes with the negative feedback from the user base. If the users are not sending a powerful enough message, here i…

Thank you for this comment. I really appreciate it.
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