Hmmm...

[danalwyn]

Looking at the new Google Reader (actually, I've been looking at it for about a week or two), I've come to realize what it is that I don't like about the new Google look.

I think it's that Google, being rich as sin, must buy all their developers giant new monitors, monitors that are so giant that the fact that there is enough white space on the page that you could fit the entire works of Shakespeare in it doesn't bother them. For the rest of us, the crushing post-modern blankness means that the only actual information on the page has to fit into a space that is increasingly tighter and tighter, making it more and more difficult to read. Because some of us still use things like Google Reader for, well, you know, reading.

The problem with the Googleplex seems to be that the more time you spend there, the less likely you are to remember that your products are used by people outside of the bubble...

Comments

[silverjackal]

This explains why the texts have suddenly become tiny! I assumed that work had changed some sort of monitor setting without notifying me...

[danalwyn]

Strange, my text is actually pretty large, but there are huge gaps of blank space between each line, so that now they can only fit a dozen articles in one page.

To make it worse, the top toolbar seems to now occupy about a third of the page, which is slightly ridiculous seeing as how it doesn't do anything.

[avendya]

I have now gotten both of those exciting new & worse layouts for Reader. On my desktop (19 in screen but fairly low resolution for the size), I have a gigantic top bar and large text, and on my laptop, I have tiny text. I'm using Google Chrome on both machines. I can't say I'm thrilled with either layout, though.

[danalwyn]

On my laptop, which is a 13 inch, I can fit eleven entries in the new Reader format on the screen. This takes up about two thirds of the entire screen.

I think on mine (Chrome 15.0.874 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard) the text size has stayed about the same, but they've essentially double-spaced the lines. The text size for my "Subscriptions" menu on the left-hand side is definitely different, because all my folders no longer fit on the screen. It looks like I have one that was optimized for a 22-24 inch screen, except that it should know from the resolution that it's on a laptop.

It looks like not only have they made it bad though, they've made it bad for everyone in different ways...

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