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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

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Post by vilhelm_s »

thewordis wrote: post #116
vilhelm_s wrote: post #115

Dear Google, here is what my screen looks like after the redesign: http://imgur.com/ppg4o Notice that about a third of it is used up by various chrome. Now, I realize that every Google employee is issued two wall-sized hi-res screens the moment they step up to their desk, and quickly forgets what it was like to work using mere 21st-century technology. And if they ever use a laptop, it is always a sleek Chromebook whi…

Hit the 'f' key to collapse all the chrome. Mouse-over to get the title bar, including navigation.

Awesome, thank you!

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by wvl »

I don't know why tristan_louis' comment is dead, but they bring up very good point, far more egregious than either the social sharing changes or the design and screen real estate issues:

The first thing that struck me is how much slower this reader is. There seems to be a refresh on every new move forward, which was less noticeable on the previous version, if at all. There also seems to be a substantially slower response time, on the order of a couple of seconds.

Reader is now painful to use, imo. I'm constantly waiting for it to catch up to my actions.

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by barrkel »

anigbrowl wrote: post #120
barrkel wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone would just point out where this grey background is, rather than downvoting me, that would actually be helpful.

On the headline for each feed posting. For example: Blogs. Posts. -------+--------- blog1 | Unread post (b on w) blog2=>| Old post. (b on g) Here you're reading blog2, there are two posts, one unread.

That's not what I see, Edward.

Upon close examination, the headline text (not background) for unread is black on white, while the headline for read is very dark grey text on white. The headline for the item being currently read is also black on white.

The contrast is almost unnoticeable (I didn't notice it before), in particular because it's text on a bright background. I'd have to adjust my monitor gamma to make the distinction obvious, at the cost of color reproduction elsewhere. There is more variance in the shades of grey of text on my monitor from viewing angles than there is from this read / unread distinction.

The text varies between #000000 (black) and #222222 (87% black). Good luck distinguishing 87% black text on a white background from 100% black.

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by anigbrowl »

barrkel wrote: post #123
anigbrowl wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the headline for each feed posting. For example: Blogs. Posts. -------+--------- blog1 | Unread post (b on w) blog2=>| Old post. (b on g) Here you're reading blog2, there are two posts, one unread.

That's not what I see, Edward. Upon close examination, the headline text (not background) for unread is black on white, while the headline for read is very dark grey text on white. The headline for the item being currently read is also black on white. The contrast is almost unnoticeable (I didn't notice it before), in particular because it's text on a bright background. I'd have to adjust my monitor gamma to make the…

Maybe they're doing a/b testing in different markets? Here's a screenshot of my reader page, the top item in the feed (timestamp 12:23pm) is unread and should look b/w, while all the items below are b/g.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RWN8fsl7HjX5SFul8mb7OJ...

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by cpeterso »

abraham wrote: post #55
cpeterso wrote: post #53

How 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/

btw, I wrote this PlusFeed bookmarklet to open the appropriate PlusFeed2 URL for the Google+ user page you are looking:

  javascript:void(open("http://plusfeed2.appspot.com/"+location.href.match(/^https?:\/\/plus\.google\.com\/(\d{21})\/?.*$/)[1]));

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by po »

anigbrowl wrote: post #124
barrkel wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not what I see, Edward. Upon close examination, the headline text (not background) for unread is black on white, while the headline for read is very dark grey text on white. The headline for the item being currently read is also black on white. The contrast is almost unnoticeable (I didn't notice it before), in particular because it's text on a bright background. I'd have to adjust my monitor gamma to make the…

Maybe they're doing a/b testing in different markets? Here's a screenshot of my reader page, the top item in the feed (timestamp 12:23pm) is unread and should look b/w, while all the items below are b/g. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RWN8fsl7HjX5SFul8mb7OJ...

Ah Ha! Here's the confusion: You're in list view and I think those of us who are unhappy are using the 'expanded view'. Under the expanded view, you used to be able to see the difference between posts and now you cannot. I had been using expanded view for so long I had forgotten that list view even existed.

So, yeah. The 'read state' of Google Reader is half-baked in expanded view.

Re: New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

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Post by thesethings »

gchucky wrote: post #83
thesethings wrote: post #37

The 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 just read an article ( http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/10/sharebros-... ) about a service called Hivemined that some people are currently putting together. I'm hoping that since the impetus for building this new service is the destruction of Reader, it will actually be a worthy replacement. Fingers crossed...

Thanks for posting this. Can't believe I missed it. Seems this guy is riding a wave of outrage/Internet meme fun.
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