"it's like progress, but without the getting better part."

[usuallyhats]

I use Google Reader a lot. A LOT. And I really liked it, until I loaded it this morning and saw the new interface, which squishes all the actual content down into one corner and spaces out the headlines so that they’re a right pain to scroll through. Argh. So now I am in the market for recommendations: I just want a browser based feed reader that has a fairly sparse interface and allows me to sort feeds into folders and display them with the oldest items first, but I am beginning to feel like I am asking for the moon on a stick. I’ve been looking at various alternatives all morning, but they all do things I don’t like, e.g. insisting on showing me what’s popular (I get enough of that from facebook) or only display new items since my last visit (!). All suggestions gratefully received; I am tearing my hair out here, and feel like I am probably going to end up sticking with Google Reader as the least worst option. D:

(In other things-that-are-annoying-me news, it would be a bad idea to trim a few inches off my own hair with scissors, right? Right.)

Comments

[paranoidangel]

It annoyed me too. I mostly use Google Reader on my netbook, which has a 1024x768 screen. So much more space is taken up now by things I'm not using.

[usuallyhats]

I usually have it open in a fairly small window and the actual content is so squished. D:

[silveronthetree.livejournal.com]

I knew that they were changing things but I was so irritated when I opened Google Reader last night and saw the new interface. It is so spaced out and they seem to have removed all the options for altering the layout. I've got used to it now but ugh, why do they change things that work perfectly well?

(I can't help you on this one. I used to trim my hair all the time when it was getting too split-endy but it was long enough that it wouldn't really show.)

[usuallyhats]

It's so frustrating! I keep trying to click and drag on the lines to make the top sections smaller in the futile hope that it will work. :/

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It's enough to make me scream!

[usuallyhats]

Me too! D:

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I trim my fringe when it needs it, and my hairdresser doesn't notice because I'm practised. :-) However if you want to trim around the back, get a friend to do it. I used to do that for friends; if they did it themselves it was hard to get straight at the back.

They've changed GMail as well. :-P

[usuallyhats]

I trim my fringe too! Well, it's not really a fringe, just a random shorter bit for me to hide behind when I'm in that sort of mood. :D

I don't have the new Gmail yet! A little "switch to the new look" box keeps appearing but I am firmly telling it "no". I don't react well to change... :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They said I'd have to change eventually so I shrugged and did. I don't mind it now I've put the dusk theme in. I like being able to add different coloured stars and other symbols.