The original mobile Reader interface is clearly much better than the
new iPhone one -- quicker to load/refresh, and it reformats 'original
versions' and linked-to pages into a mobile-friendly format. This was
the best thing about it.
However I can't view it any more on my iPhone.
When I go to http://www.google.com/reader/m I get redirected against
my will to /reader/i -- please tell me there's a workaround! Otherwise
mobile Reader has been pretty much ruined for me.
Not all of us have 3G iPhones (http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/ joyarchives/1125.html), so the reduced loading time via the original
interface was really important. But more importantly, it made pages
MUCH easier to read, and this is still true on the 3G version.
I really hope it's not that Google have come under pressure from
advertisers who didn't like seeing their ads getting stripped out.
As posted in another thread, if this is not promptly changed I'll be
ditching Google Reader for good. This is awful how very little
reading I get done on my iPhone now. If Google doesn't give us page
reformatting options back, I am sure another decent reader will become
available in the App Store at some point and I will make the switch.
One way or another (3G or not) the interface as it stands is useless
to me now.
> As posted in another thread, if this is not promptly changed I'll be
> ditching Google Reader for good. This is awful how very little
> reading I get done on my iPhone now. If Google doesn't give us page
> reformatting options back, I am sure another decent reader will become
> available in the App Store at some point and I will make the switch.
Does it still work on other phones? If so, maybe jailbreaking the
iPhone and changing the user agent would work. But that seems like
overkill...
It doesn't seem that there's a way to change the user agent even after
jailbreaking. I searched around and saw a suggestion of using a proxy
like Anonymouse.org but I haven't tried that yet and I'm not sure that
would work well with the ping-happy Reader.
> > As posted in another thread, if this is not promptly changed I'll be
> > ditching Google Reader for good. This is awful how very little
> > reading I get done on my iPhone now. If Google doesn't give us page
> > reformatting options back, I am sure another decent reader will become
> > available in the App Store at some point and I will make the switch.
> Does it still work on other phones? If so, maybe jailbreaking the
> iPhone and changing the user agent would work. But that seems like
> overkill...
problems are from last weekend, but still no answer from google reader
team :(
why google reader team didn't announced such big change? why this
changes without warning?
I'm big google reader user since I get iPhone, because it was easy
with google reader and GWT read all my watched feeds, but now it's
horrible SLOWER and when I want to see whole article it displays
original page (why?) without previous GWT formatting and even without
option to set it like it was before.
Please someone from Google Reader Team to answer this.
do people from the google reader team actually read this thread? if so
are they too overwhelmed with email to reply? if not, it would be
really great to get even just a quick message like "yes, we see your
issue and are working on it" or "sorry, WYSIWYG, forever." at least
then we could all move on. ug.
> The original mobile Reader interface is clearly much better than the
> new iPhone one -- quicker to load/refresh, and it reformats 'original
> versions' and linked-to pages into a mobile-friendly format. This was
> the best thing about it.
> However I can't view it any more on my iPhone.
> When I go tohttp://www.google.com/reader/mI get redirected against
> my will to /reader/i -- please tell me there's a workaround! Otherwise
> mobile Reader has been pretty much ruined for me.
> Not all of us have 3G iPhones (http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/ > joyarchives/1125.html), so the reduced loading time via the original
> interface was really important. But more importantly, it made pages
> MUCH easier to read, and this is still true on the 3G version.
> I really hope it's not that Google have come under pressure from
> advertisers who didn't like seeing their ads getting stripped out.
I am using Nokia e61 phone and recently it started to show iPhone
version of Google Reader (even if I go to reader/m). For me it made
mobile version of Google Reader almost completely unusable:
- it takes longer to load (it is about 200k)
- browser uses too much memory, so I can not start other applications
at the same time
- it is almost impossible to view more than 30 items - browser becomes
slow
- items are not marked as read even after I read them
So please let me use the old version. It was much more usable on my
phone.
> The original mobile Reader interface is clearly much better than the
> new iPhone one -- quicker to load/refresh, and it reformats 'original
> versions' and linked-to pages into a mobile-friendly format. This was
> the best thing about it.
> However I can't view it any more on my iPhone.
> When I go tohttp://www.google.com/reader/mI get redirected against
> my will to /reader/i -- please tell me there's a workaround! Otherwise
> mobile Reader has been pretty much ruined for me.
> Not all of us have 3G iPhones (http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/ > joyarchives/1125.html), so the reduced loading time via the original
> interface was really important. But more importantly, it made pages
> MUCH easier to read, and this is still true on the 3G version.
> I really hope it's not that Google have come under pressure from
> advertisers who didn't like seeing their ads getting stripped out.
Thanks for your feedback on the recent changes to Google Reader for
your iPhone. Could you all confirm that you are using the latest
version of your iPhone's firmware? The latest update offered by Apple
improves performance significantly and using Google Reader should not
cause poor performance, even on EDGE iPhones.
I'd also like to let you know that we hear your feedback loud and
clear regarding allowing the original, HTML version of Reader on your
iPhone as an option. I'll post an update to this situation shortly. In
the meantime, please let me know if updating to the latest version of
your iPhone's firmware doesn't solve the issue.
