I really like the redesign but I was sad to see that a few of my biggest pet peeves about the site are still very much alive.
- The most important one: It boggles my mind that the current/active article is less-bold than unread articles. The eye is drawn to bold! That’s why it’s bold! Why do you make it harder to read the current article?
- Another way in which I find it difficult to track the current article happens when there are several short articles on the screen and for reasons beyond my understanding NewsBlur hasn’t loaded more articles, so when I press ‘j’ to navigate to the next article and I keep my eyes looking at the same spot nothing happens. Instead the next article becomes less bold and I become confused. I very much like the way Google Reader handle(s/d) this which is to move the current article to the top spot always.
- What is that list at the bottom right that no longer has a Hide button? I never want to see it, but I can’t turn it off permanently. Why did you take away the hide button?
- It seems like I often have to hit ‘r’ to get more articles even when NewsBlur knows I have more unread articles, I’m not sure why.
- I realize this is a long-shot, but it would be amazing if you allowed us to toggle keyboard shortcuts. I never ever want to use whatever the arrow key is mapped to for NewsBlur, but I do want to use it for HoverZoom and NewsBlur wins and frustrates me every time because whatever the arrow keys do is nothing I ever want NB to do.
Not very pleased that I have to sign up for a second account to give you feedback on a service I pay for.