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2 years ago More changes ---
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There's a link to the user's name in the subtext of the title on the feedlist page which ridiculously pointed to the user's twitter profile page. I changed it to point to the user's news page.
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On most pages I don't mind the big bold page title at the top. But on the News page I find it really jarring. I want to know what you think. So here's how we're going to do that. I added a new setting in the Testing panel of the Settings dialog that says whether or not you want the big title at the top of the page showing. The smaller subtext remains, and to my surprise in all cases it seems to do a pretty good job of explaining what's on the page. Give it a try for a while and see how it feels. It's weird, but I want to see if I get used to it or it gives me more ideas.
I'm doing a review of the entire user interface of the product, looking for things that have "always" bothered me, and doing something about it.
Here are a few changes from today's list:
Added all the info in the feed info popup to the feed info page. Three things: number of secs it took to read the feed last time it was checked, how many times it has been checked, and the number of items that have been found.
In the feedlist page, the wedge that expands to show the last five stories from the feed is now bigger. Easier to see and click on. It's a big feature, the icon was too small.
When you choose a user from the Tools menu instead of getting the user's news page, you get the feedlist page. This is consistent with the focus of the product on "this side" on feeds, not news. The public side, that does not require a login, is all about the news with little tastes of feeds. (the OPML icon, the link to the feed in the river).
FeedLand is for sharing feeds with friends. There is nothing in that niche that I know of. This is where the UI of FeedLand is most developed. The FeedList page is the big page, by far (always has been, this isn't new).