Comments on: The Breaking Of The Feedreaders

By: urbansheep

urbansheep — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:23:18 +0000

Peter, actually, what you need to do is to switch Google Reader to “List view” (top right tab), and this suddenly solves some of your problems:
- you get to scan the list of posts;
- you can read posts one by one;
- you can “mark all as read” (button on the top of the list) to get rid of the stuff you’re sure you don’t care about.

And while “feed unbolding” might seem logical, it isn’t — it’s a leftover habit after bloglines which couldn’t track what you’ve read and what not. It gives way for a lot of a suffering when you open a feed with LOTS of updates and your browser crashes or you just have to go for some reason. You miss all the stuff that is shown in the open feed in bloglines.

So just ix your Google reader.
And its list view’s much quicker than expanded view too.
Give it a try. Seriously.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:28:21 +0000

Harald: you’re not getting what I mean. I don’t WANT to scroll down all items. When I select a feed, I want ALL items immediately to be unread. That’s how Bloglines works, that makes sense to me. Making me scroll down lotsa items just doesn’t make ANY sense to me whatsoever.

By: Harald Felgner

Harald Felgner — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:57:23 +0000

Hi Peter, works fine in Google Reader as soon as you check “In expanded view, mark items as read when you scroll past them.” in the settings, first tab. Additionally use j and k to jump up and down a post at a time.

By: Javier Cañada

Javier Cañada — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:39:39 +0000

Allowing the eye to scan and select where to put the attention is CRUCIAL.

I am working on something even simpler than bloglines (it gets rid of the folder structure). It’s not targeted to us massive feed consumers but to people who regularly want to check the newspaper and a few other websites. You may want to check out a prototype here:

http://www.programavostok.com/blog/algunos-avances-en-el-diseno-del-lector-de-feeds

In a few weeks we’ll be testing it. I’ll let you know in case you want to switch ;-)