Request: Moving the reader's view to the centre (macOS)

[Niko-ux]

I'd like to suggest moving the article view to the centre of the app, as its position on the right-hand side is unnatural and uncomfortable when reading. The purpose of the app is the articles we read on it. They should not be somewhere off to the side. Similarly, when we read a book, we don't have it somewhere on the right or left, because it's what we have in the middle that focuses our attention. In the case of this application, our attention is drawn away from the article by the list of articles.

I noticed that instead of reading an article in the app, I open it in the browser for convenience.

Apart from this one shortcoming, I love your app, and thank you in advance for taking what I have written into consideration.

[vincode-io]

Are you suggesting that flow of selecting an article be changed from left to right to something like left-right-left?

[Niko-ux]

I've considered several things, but at this point I think the least complicated solution would be as shown in the graphic.

[brentsimmons]

Do you know of any other apps — any other newsreader or similar (email app, maybe) — that does something similar? It would be great to see some prior art.

[Niko-ux]

That's kind of my thought, but I found another interesting solution that we come across when we go to a news site (such as the NYTimes). We don't just see text with icons, but with pictures. This was applied by Newsify (although this app does a poor job of fetching text).

In the first part, we are looking for the article, and this is then the most important part (for now). The text doesn't display by default because we haven't found it yet.

When we find an article, then it becomes the most important & final part, and nothing distracts us from it. In addition, there are options for font and background management (similar to Safari in reader mode). We don't need more than two windows.