Google Reader had redesigned the interface of Google Reader recently. The new interface on is good and I like the clean look that Google is adapting across Google’s products.
Adding a new folder to Google Reader
Till now everything was fine. Today I wanted to add another RSS feed to my Google Reader and wanted to create a new folder for it. I could not find an option to create a new folder which is usually available as feed settings drop down menu.
After some rigorous searching (10 minutes) I found this discussion on Google support forums about how to add a new folder in the new Google Reader interace.
This is dumb way of adding folders as you would like to create new folders when you are subscribing to new feed which deals with a topic which you were not interested in before. This is the most non intuitive way to add new folder to RSS feeds.
I hope Google realizes fast that the RSS reader users they have are fragile as there is very little competition but as soon as a more intuitve RSS reader is launched all the users of Google Reader will flock to the new service. I hope this is corrected soon and I hope Google does not push me to to use another RSS reader in the near future.
Let me know your thoughts on this.
NB: If someone is interested in developing a web based RSS reader please contact me by adding it to the comments as I would like to explore the possibilities .
