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Good Noows: A well designed news reader

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Re: Good Noows: A well designed news reader

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Post by NathanKP »

Bad things happen to the layout if the screen's vertical dimension is not large enough. The semi-transparent screenshots at the bottom move up over the text.

Also, I didn't like the bar at the bottom of the screen. If feels strange and also gets in the way. Personally I feel that the design could still use some fine tuning.

Re: Good Noows: A well designed news reader

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Post by cjoh »

Kind of a wacky set of default sources for the political section. The only independent blog offered in their list of political sources is BigGovernment.com which is a great source of nonsense (let me be clear -- this isn't a partisan complaint. DailyKos is also a source of nonsense). Puzzled as to why they'd even include it.

Re: Good Noows: A well designed news reader

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Post by RossM »

NathanKP wrote: post #2

Bad things happen to the layout if the screen's vertical dimension is not large enough. The semi-transparent screenshots at the bottom move up over the text. Also, I didn't like the bar at the bottom of the screen. If feels strange and also gets in the way. Personally I feel that the design could still use some fine tuning.

The bar at the bottom is meebo's in-site-chat script, it can probably be blocked.

Re: Good Noows: A well designed news reader

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Post by mithaler »

Two things:

1) I need OPML import. Before that's there, all I can really do is play with the interface to see if I like it; I imagine this will be the case for anyone who already uses a lot of RSS feeds. (Other users new to the concept, on the other hand, would be fine getting started with the sample feeds given.)

2) The Meebo toolbar needs to go. I get that social networking is a major focus, but adding an IM client to the interface is not helpful for anyone but iPad users (and even that's doubtful). If you must have it, I suggest detecting the user agent and removing it for anyone but them, or at least giving the option to disable it entirely in the options (instead of just "hiding" it).

Otherwise, it's a great start and I'd love to see where it's going. :)

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