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More Google Reader hate - NONE of the blog posts I've been scrolling past all day were marked as read! (I just had to restart Firefox and Reader has me at the same point I was this morning. What a useless piece of shit.)
So...any alternatives? Is Bloglines still around?
Google Reader is actually working fine for me (in terms of loading and marking things read), but my primary machine is a netbook and the "improved" layout wastes a lot of space. Scrolly, scrolly, scrolly.
Actually a lot of Google products are kinda problematic on my Netbook - often important buttons are on pop-up windows, and they fall off the bottom of my screen, and I can't move the window or scroll to look at them. Which seems like an obvious fail they should have dealt with, no?
Is Bloglines still around?
They died. Any other online blog readers out there?
what about feedly? I used to use them. I might go back.
I just tried the soon-to-be-new Gmail, actually, and hated it for all the wasted space. Apparently it will be headed in that direction soon, but I got to fill out a feedback form when I switched back to the old style.
I don't mind it for Google Docs, and switched that one over to the new interface a while ago, but it definitely isn't great for gmail/reader.
right. I don't have a problem with it for google voice either. But Reader and Gmail? Hell no.
If they insist on this, I'll wait for google chrome extensions to re-skin the services.
I just found a user style that works pretty decently, applied with Stylish. I don't know if Stylish works in Chrome, but it's good in Firefox. It basically just shrinks the whitespace at the top. [link]
FYI, I have been using feedly this evening and I really like it. You can vary how the articles are displayed, so that flexibility alone wins points for me.
Is Bloglines still around?
I think they are. I seem to remember that, right before they were supposed to pull the plug, I got an email from them saying they were going to keep it going after all. But I'd already migrated to Google Reader.
The one thing I like better about the new reader is it's easier for me to scroll down on my iPad. I always had issues on the old version.