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Google Reader wins for me

September 6th, 2007 by

Phil

Let’s see, they convert everything to Atom and have just added the only two features I was missing: search and “hide feed list” (I do a lot of feed reading on a tablet).

It even goes offline, has a mobile version and some great keyboard shortcuts, including a nice SHIFT+/. How can you go wrong?

I’ve been on GR for months. This is just more to love.
Posted by leff on September 6th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
It is good, but duplicate entries and Atom <id/> anyone?
Posted by James Abley on September 7th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Yeah, it’s not good. I left a comment on your blog which I’ll duplicate here for my own records:

If you compare

http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://intertwingly.net/blog/index.atom

with

http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://planet.intertwingly.net/atom.xml

You’ll see that although the original IDs are maintained in the gr:original-d attribute, the ID itself is different, and Google Reader specific. You’d hope that this would be reversed at some point.
Posted by Phil Wilson on September 7th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Well, all the required information is preserved for a fix, so hopefully they can do that in the not too distant future.
Posted by James Abley on September 7th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Indeed, Google reader r0×0rz my b0X0rz. I have noticed it to be much more responsive with the latest updates now too, and the new message counts seem to stay in sync better.
Posted by Bert Lamb on September 12th, 2007 at 8:38 pm