Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rogerbinns 4736 days ago
My problem is that G+ is unreadable. Every iteration they make it harder and harder to actually read the content. I completely gave up on their Android app for that reason. Most recently they switched the web site to arbitrary sized blocks in a 2d random layout using images wherever possible instead of truncated text. It is true that newspapers do this, but at least they have more readable content in each block. I had to switch G+ to single column view to at least make heads or tails of what is going on.

Reader was focussed on reading content and did a good job of that. Virtually every pixel on the screen was about reading content. Here is what G+ does with actual reading content highlighted in yellow http://i.imgur.com/ASKMSRv.png

Reader used to be the first tab in my first browser window. This meant I always had a tab open at Google and it was a single click to get into G+. Now I have to consciously choose to go to G+ which happens rarely.

1 comments

Totally, my new homepage is my online RSS reader of choice. I doubt I'm alone there.