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The new design is definitely cleaner and consistent with other Google products, but it is not a design focused on providing a great reading experience (as the p
by GBKS 15y ago
The new design is definitely cleaner and consistent with other Google products, but it is not a design focused on providing a great reading experience (as the product name "Reader" suggests). It is basically the Gmail layout and interaction model, just different content. I wish Google had taken an approach that deeply focused on the content first (as Flipboard does).
- phillmv 15y agoKEEPING IN MIND that I generally hate people who whine every time every thing changes, as someone who is fairly invested in Google Reader, it pains me that this has been a UI step backwards. It's lot less usable; defaulting every link to black, like the rest of the interface, makes scanning for links really painful, and there's still a good 130px of useless interface chrome that is taking up space for no good reason. Blargh! Looks like I'm going to be loading some custom stylesheets very soon.
- parfe 15y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ I haven't set up a style for google reader (yet) but Stylish extension for Firefox does a good job letting me customize sites. I don't use it on every site, but places I view regularly I tweak. I have a style for news.yc http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085416 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085416
- delackner 15y agoThank you! After installing Stylish they had a style already prepared to fix reader: http://userstyles.org/styles/55550/google-reader-g-edition-more-vertical-space http://userstyles.org/styles/55550/google-reader-g-edition-m...
- ktsmith 15y agoThis was exactly what I was looking for. I did make one addition to mark the read items. .read > .card { border: 1px solid #f357a1 !important; } Adds a pinkish border around the cards of read items.