Hacker News Reader

Comment by magicalist | Hacker News Reader

I'm a long time, heavy user of Reader, but as a disclaimer: my usage consists of the letters j, k, m, and v, so I'll admit that I don't care at all about the lost social features, and my short cuts and usage patterns remain unchanged.

This article seems no different than any other of the reader articles submitted in the last few days (especially the one by the other former googler that worked on reader).

If his offer were serious because he really really cared about the product, he would have sent an email.

If his offer were serious because he really really cared about other users, he would have posted some user scripts (which lots of others have already done).

View on HN

First, a user script is a poor solution because it reaches a small minority of people, is limited in the functionality it can add, and would frequently not survive updates. It's a band-aid, and a poor one at that.

Second, what makes you think I didn't send an email?

I heard from a reliable source that there were contractors behind the new design. If that's true, I'm stunned. They didn't put an employee on this project?

I know the tech lead isn't a contractor (unsure what the relationship is between tech lead and designer, though)

His offer is serious because he used to work on Google Reader.

(especially the one by the other former googler that worked on reader).

Don't forget the "f" key. Even more frequently used under the new design.

(fullscreen for those who are wondering - removes most of the wasteland of whitespace up top)

Life-changing feature.

I'm a fellow j,k,m,v,f user, and my biggest complaint about the redesign is that it seems so much slower than before. Pressing j used to go to the next item almost immediately, now it's "press j... wait for it... next item... repeat." Makes rapidly going through unread items really irritating. Seems to be the same with the mousewheel too.

Maybe it's a browser/OS problem or something (Ubuntu 11.10, Chromium 15). I haven't heard anyone else mentioning this, but I can't be the only one...

Odd; it may be an illusion, but it actually seems faster here (Firefox 7 on Debian and Ubuntu). Not that it was slow, but now it's pretty much instantaneous.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com