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Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by DanBC »

Sami_Lehtinen wrote: post #128
seldo wrote: post #33

I appreciate his position but I have trouble taking advice on UI from somebody whose blog is eye-burning neon green text on a black background and has been since 1995. We know you're l33t, Jamie, you are a living legend. Can I get a readable color scheme already?

I think you got just a very bad monitor, if it doesn't have a green / amber switch. Simply go and buy a better one. Btw. Blog is completely missing the lovely slow phosphor trailing effect, it could be added with js. I was great that you were able to read text from monitor about 5 seconds after powering it off. - After quick Googling, I couldn't find pre-existing javascript to do it. It would be nice to make one.

It might be nice to replicate the 8 x 8 pixels (on a 640 x 200 screen) of the CGA 80 x 25 characters text mode.

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Post by mhaymo »

mehrzad wrote: post #24
voltagex_ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I installed the feedly extension and it proceeded to trash every page I viewed by inserting itself at the bottom. Even in plain Javascript files I was viewing

Yeah it's a weird default that is quickly disabled but the point is moot now that we have a full web client of Feedly.

Thanks for the info, might check it out again this weekend then.

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Post by easyfrag »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #11

I'm fine with Reeder switching to Feedbin, but why couldn't the author update the desktop all at the same time as the iOS client? This means there is a gap where Reeder on the desktop just won't work correctly.

The iPad version of Reeder also doesn't have Feedbin support yet.

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Post by bcj »

Nican wrote: post #141

I am surprised nobody mentioned CommaFeed yet; How are people using CommaFeed holding out?

I'm liking it well enough. It's mobile interface isn't good and I haven't tried updating it yet, but it is certainly holding up adequately.

While I haven't done any tinkering with it yet, I enjoy knowing that I can make whatever changes to it I like.

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Post by jsherer »

hawkharris wrote: post #32

Many startups are trying to consolidate news and social media posts — to become, basically, a one-stop shop for users. I understand that this offers greater convenience, but it also overlooks something people enjoy about the Internet. People like having different websites and services to check, with notifications unique to each one. It's kind of like spreading out your Christmas presents instead of tearing them open…

I agree. This is my approach for http://mnmlrdr.com/ — no social integration because a lot of people are only interested in reading their feeds, not talking about it in their reader app.

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Post by zeckalpha »

eli wrote: post #150
Semaphor wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite, Newsblur, has pretty much everything GReader had. And by now he even managed to do away with the performance problems.

You don't find it buggy? For example, right now it claims several of my feeds are 404 and it won't let me fix them -- I have to delete and re-add them.

I find exactly which feeds are 404 varies, so I believe it is an upstream issue in the feed itself.

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Post by seanp2k2 »

It's hilarious when these days, Google is the one sticking to their guns despite public outcry (Reader) and Microsoft is listening to their users in some regard (Xbox One DRM). I really feel like Google is missing the forest for the very intricately engineered trees.

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Post by tterrace »

Swipe to navigate is a terrible design antipattern. I can always tell when I'm reading a blog on blogspot because it'll dump me to the adjacent article when I'm scrolling or trying to zoom in on an image. I dumped chrome on ios because they didn't get it right either.

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Post by rocky1138 »

pbsdp wrote: post #49
rocky1138 wrote: post #42

"All I want is a version of Reeder that stores my .newsrc on Dropbox." Get coding. This sort of angst is the inspiration behind a ton of open source projects.

Did you seriously just try to give jwz 'get coding' open source advice?

Yup. The advice is sound regardless of who it is. In fact, if he's as good as we think, we should get something good out of it!
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