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A few thoughts after a some use: I was part of a community of people I liked, and now, after I clicked a button, that was gone. I miss those people already.
by rudyfink 15y ago
A few thoughts after a some use:
I was part of a community of people I liked, and now,
after I clicked a button, that was gone. I miss those people already. I don't recall anything on the text that clearly said "oh yeah, stuff will be gone, including your friends, and we meant to do that."
If I want to share now, I have to do so publicly with the Internet or click a "share" button way in the upper right and then build up groups. There does not seem to be an easy way to get my friends back and to get them into a reader feed. I apparently have to look at my G+ feed if a friend sends me an item. I do not seem to have any convenient way to filter out those useful posts from all the spam of G+.
I had easy access to search a list of things that I had found interesting over the years, and now, I guess I'm going to have to find another program to even look at that. I do appreciate that it was not outright destroyed, so thanks for that kindness.
Visually, I'm baffled. Apparently, grey and slightly darker grey are now visually effective colors for distinguishing things. I can, of course, adjust to this but overall it does not instill me with confidence.
I am, obviously, now looking for a way back to what I had this morning. If someone figures that out, I'll thank them. If it's something that needs support, I'll support it.
- toyg 15y agoI don't know why they just didn't try to automatically convert the Readers categories of users into G+ circles, plus a button "not on G+? click here and join". Google -1 on this one. (and yeah, the new grey-on-grey style is really bad and depressing.)
- smokinn 15y agoI don't understand either. I fully expected them to add a new circle for me called "Google Reader Friends" or something but they didn't. Even better would've been in that popup saying hey look, something new! to give the option of creating that very circle. Very big and obvious oversight.
- redwood 15y agoGoogle has a lot of trouble connecting with end users, especially end users that aren't of the majority of their users (e.g. users who use more than just search and gmail). This is more confirmation.
- wyclif 15y agoApparently, grey and slightly darker grey are now visually effective colors for distinguishing things That's just classic Edward Tufte design aesthetics.
- omnibot 15y agoGoogle gave out notifications about the changes in Reader (including taking away social functions). You can still download everything you had before and it wouldn't be much work to put all those followers/followees(?) into a circle and share with just them. Although I do agree that should have been done automatically.
- antichaos 15y agoThe mobile version (http://www.google.com/reader/i/ http://www.google.com/reader/i/) is not vandalized (yet). It is now my preferred way to access Google Reader.
- indy 15y agoThe following greasemonkey script should fix the 'grey on slightly darker grey' issue: https://github.com/indy/greasemonkey-scripts/blob/master/google-reader.user.js https://github.com/indy/greasemonkey-scripts/blob/master/goo...
- losvedir 15y agoWho were these friends? I've always been very confused by the interface, and would sometimes see little notes "2 people liked this", but I had no idea who they were! Were they email contacts? Did I accidentally friend some people on a Reader-specific social network at some point?