UI and UX Improvements Needed for the WordPress.com Reader

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  jannalextx · Member · Oct 9, 2014 at 10:41 pm

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  1. For the users: Give us more control over how our posts appear in the WordPress.com Reader. Allow us to dictate our choice of featured image, gallery, video or none at all, and allow us to choose our own written excerpt. Allow our MORE tags to indicate there’s more to read.

  2. For our readers: The user experience with the Reader is woefully inadequate in functionality, compared to many readers (take Feedly, for example). Add commonly used features such as categorizing, saving, bookmarking, sharing, sorting. Give users a choice of other displays: as lists and as columns of images with headlines. The current method of long scroll (the way it is now), is the least user-friendly, though it may be preferable on mobile.

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