The new version of Google Reader has received a lot of criticism for the removed sharing capabilities. My problem is another one. I cannot read in Reader.
I routinely zoom in in most web pages, so fonts get bigger, so I actually can read text. However, when I do that in the new Google Reader, the items to read are shoved off into a small area in the bottom right corner of the screen, and they become almost impossible to read.
I can no longer remove the navigation pane to the left, and the top part of the screen has expanded with nice looking big buttons I never use. The top part took up 133 pixels before. Now it has increased by 65 useless percent to 197 pixels.
Why can I not collapse the uninteresting things on the screen? I can quickly show/hide all panels in Adobe CS5 with a simple TAB. I can show/hide the ribbon in Microsoft Word with ctrl+F1 in 2007 for Windows or ⌘+⌥+R in 2011 for Mac.
And in Google Reader (or indeed Google Doc) there is no way I can remove the clutter. Why? Oh, why? Google may not be evil, but it is cruel.
I routinely zoom in in most web pages, so fonts get bigger, so I actually can read text. However, when I do that in the new Google Reader, the items to read are shoved off into a small area in the bottom right corner of the screen, and they become almost impossible to read.
I can no longer remove the navigation pane to the left, and the top part of the screen has expanded with nice looking big buttons I never use. The top part took up 133 pixels before. Now it has increased by 65 useless percent to 197 pixels.
Why can I not collapse the uninteresting things on the screen? I can quickly show/hide all panels in Adobe CS5 with a simple TAB. I can show/hide the ribbon in Microsoft Word with ctrl+F1 in 2007 for Windows or ⌘+⌥+R in 2011 for Mac.
And in Google Reader (or indeed Google Doc) there is no way I can remove the clutter. Why? Oh, why? Google may not be evil, but it is cruel.
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