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Is it me, or has google’s reader just had a [so far] unannounced, subtle yet highly user friendly UI change to both the subscription pane and articles list?

It’s happened in the last few hours and the enhancements really, do, honestly, make a massive difference - particularly when you compare to the older UI design:

The changes aren’t exactly ground-breaking.. but they have improved work-flow as I go through the feeds - the changes to where ‘refresh’ buttons are placed (including it’s addition into the feeds list) in particularly are well received by this author.

This is also a slight navigational improvement that really shows the reader is still being fine tuned by the development crew. Here’s a view of the older design:

This is one of the reasons I continue to use google reader over and above pretty much any other web based option. It’s the little changes, the tweaks and the UI enhancements, even on a tiny scale, that just keep causing the product to improve.

Anyone else noticed this so far? Thoughts? It’s seriously working out for me - as I am forever rolling between the “all” and “new” items lists and it’s just a little more of a seamless process.

.. the more they stay the same.
To get a feel for RSS subscription levels for smackoo, I decided to roll the feed through
feedburner.
I have done this
in the past as well, with
mixed success. It seems while times have changed, feedburners tendency to be
as fast as glacial ice movement has not.
That is not […]

The move of files and data to the new domain is now complete. While the redirect will remain for the next month or two, please update your links and or your rss feed reader of choice to the reflect the following:

rss - http://www.smackfoo.com/feed/ or

atom - http://www.smackfoo.com/feed/atom/

link - is now http://www.smackfoo.com/

Any links to […]

For those searching for a good ajax powered news reader, I can highly recommend NewsAlloy.