Comments on: New Google Reader for iPhone Loses Features

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:37:30 +0000

Thanks Mihai! That’s awesome!

Now, how about restoring the link to the name of the feed at the bottom of an item, so I can go straight to that feed? I’m going to post a picture/describe it soon, but this is another functionality that was there before but lost in the recent update.

And while you’re at it, how about making the name of the tag on an item page a link so you can click directly to it? I’ve always wanted that!

Thanks again for being so responsive, Mihai. That’s one reason I love you guys!

By: Mihai Parparita

Mihai Parparita — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:25:34 +0000

Hi Josh,

Our thinking was that users would prefer the pure alphabetical sorting on the iPhone since scrolling is so much easier there than on regular mobile browsers. However, based on the feedback from you and other users, we’ve decided to put things back the way they were. This change should be live in production, let me know if you run into any issues.

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

By: Matt G

Matt G — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:13:40 +0000

I saw that last night also. I like the LnF better, that’s for sure. The “Subscriptions” feature change is a bummer. I must be really lame cause I don’t use “Tags” at all.

By: kornel

kornel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:12:04 +0000

Josh,
I think touching the time display on the top of the screen will automatically scroll back up to the top. Makes it a bit easier.

By: Thomas Han

Thomas Han — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:40:00 +0000

Josh - thx for the discovering. I found out about it via your twitter last night and check it out as well. That was the first thing I noticed too, I know have to scroll thru all my “tags/folders” to get to the unread sections. urgh!

I also noticed that you do the same thing I do by prefixing tags with special character like “-” to bump them up to top of the list, hee hee