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The best gets better (once you find the hidden features)
I love the look and feel of the update in the phone format, especially the infinite-scroll. That must have taken a bunch of work! However, I was used to clearing a page of news articles five(ish?) items at a time and initially hated the new interface because it only let me clear items individually in magazine view.
Now that I discovered “long pressing” a news article and the “mark above as read” feature, I’m absolutely in love! Feedly took my weird, hacky way of reading/clearing and made it super efficient; I just scroll/browse articles and clear/long press from time to time. This fits the mental map of how I use the app perfectly and I’m amazed they added this feature.
The one improvement I’d make is to onboard the “mark above as read” feature more organically. When Feedly sees that I’ve marked a few items in a row as “read”, teach me about the “mark above as read” feature. I only discovered it out of frustration/disappointment that my old way of clearing articles was gone. There’s too much to learn in a big “onboarding” walkthrough.
I was initially very disappointed in the app, but now that I know all the features, I’m absolutely thrilled at the visual refresh and usability improvements. Keep up the great work folks!Show lessBumblybreak
Big fan for years, now looking elsewhere
I’ve been an avid Feedly user. I loved the fact that there were great experiences on both desktop and mobile. I loved the mobile app with its quick gestures that allowed me to quickly scan and mark things as read either a screen at a time or individually. To my surprise the new app changes things dramatically. Gone are the quick swiping days now I have to individually swipe each item or scroll down to the bottom for the elusive “mark all as read” something about this new experience feels old and it’s definitely cumbersome. All in all, I don’t see much difference between this app and countless others now. Ingenuity I guess didn’t matter. Now the hunt into something that might surprise me. Don’t worry I’ll still keep the app until something better comes my way or Feedly finds its way back home.Show lessbetoinbeta
Update is a step backwards
I’ve used Feedly ever since Google shut down Reader and some of the new UI updates are frustrating. First, I can no longer press and hold to add to read later. I don’t want or need the extra steps to add it to folders, that just makes for extra unnecessary steps. The second is not having an option to jump straight to the Safari browser. Some webpages I just know aren’t going to work for me in the browser in the app. An example that comes to mind is the free apps of the day that BGR puts out. Clicking on links to the App Store is better done through Safari so I don’t have to reload the page each time. The last thing that really bugs me admittedly doesn’t hurt the functionality but I very much dislike the pictures being on the right. It just doesn’t look right. I prefer the pictures on the left with the text preview on the right.Show lessRedneckButlerBoy
bad semi-offline experience in subway
Had a very unpleasant user experience in places where you have intermitting wireless connection like subway, underground, etc. You’re not able to “mark an unread” and often get a blank screen with timeout, it then will forget your progress and you have to scroll all over again and again.
While this was also not ideal with previous app(now classic) but much better. In this implementation this is hardly ever usable in such conditions. And this is a place where you do not have much options left for self entertainment except lets say mostly reading but still have to spend a substantial amount of time a day.
Also would like to see “keep as unread” as a button while swiping articles and do not exit to list view when you hit “keep as unread” at the bottom, so you can continue swiping or even swipe to next article automatically.Show lessheiscook
Developer Response
Hello, we're very sorry for breaking the landscape mode, we're working on bringing this back in the next update.The new UI is fine but...
Contrary to recent criticism, the new UI is fine. There are settings which allow for some personalization or, go back to something close to the old version. Feedly is a good app.
A big change is that features that were once free are now a charge which is also ok, they deserve to make money for their efforts. The problem is the cost. I use Pocket and Feedly allowed me to save articles to Pocket with one touch. To have that same functionality they are now asking me to pay $72 per year. That’s a lot for one feature considering with a few swipes I can share to Pocket for free. Please reconsider your pricing structure. Also, I would have preferred to contact you privately about this but you do not provide any support information in your app. If support is only available to subscribers then say so in the app.Show lesscbkosc
Why?!? A huge step backwards.
I use Feedly daily and have truly loved the app but these new UI changes are a HUGE step backwards. Amongst other problems the new layout renders a process that used to be more dynamic incredibly boring. On a phone it might not be so bad and probably makes a lot of sense, but the limitations on an iPad are pretty miserable. The randomness of layout and variation of image sizes used to give more of a magazine like reading experience and now what’s being presented has all the charisma of the results of a Google search. PLEASE undo this or give more options to return to what it was prior. Haven't given up on the app yet given how long I’ve truly enjoyed it BUT can’t imagine continuing to use it for too long in this form.
Originally gave this a single star but am raising my rating slightly. I still don’t like the bulk of the changes in this new version but I do appreciate that the developer has given us the option to use what I think is a preferable UI in another app now called 'classic'. That said, I wish the new app had been something one opted into with the old one simply renamed rather than throwing users into something so different via an 'upgrade' like this. Moves like that always make me a little distrustful of developers and less likely to opt into in app purchases, etc. That said, the ability to download 'classic' addresses that distrust a bit.Show lessCAS3000
Favorites lost subfolders on redesign
The redesign made it harder to read favorite feeds - it did away with subfolders.
For example: I have a few news feeds favorited, and I also have a few feeds from sites I maintain, which each publish a post or two each week. I need to be on top of those. With the redesign, there's no way for me to see individual feeds in the favorites new posts count - it gets buried in with the other feeds. I don't want to see that I have 43 new posts in my favorites. I'd rather still see that I have two things that need attention and a bunch of other stuff that can wait.
Features are nice, but it's better to do one thing and do it well. Why the move towards doing more things less well?Show lessOscar Newport
Don’t like the new “endless” page format
I like the new look and features of Feedly, that is except this one. The endless page... where the story listing never ends. A quick flick of the thumb and .... oops....went to far... missed a story there... slide back down with the thumb... there it is.
Reading well involves predictable eye tracking. A quick glance at a predictable page layout meant you could actually comprehend what you quickly glanced at. With endless scrolling, lines of text on the screen are never in predictable places when you’re scanning for headlines and story leads. Comprehension and quick glances (at headlines ad story leads) are now mutually exclusive. It’s a bad reading setup.
Hire a reading specialist before reformatting digital magazines. I deleted News 360 for this same reason. This one goes too. Thank goodness for Flipboard.Show lessNinlab55
Why the changes!!!!
Edit: didn’t see that there is now a Feedly classic, as well. I’ll check it out. This one still deserves 3 stars ... for now. May update later.
Why all the changes!!! It was almost perfect as it was!!! Now all my setting are wrong after the latest update, and I can’t get it back to the feed order that I had before the update. I can’t swipe left on the page and have all the articles showing be marked read. This new format will take some getting used to, if I even bother. Not cool...
Also: why don’t you have the option to make the change from day to night mode automatically, after sundown, or when the current screen brightness drips below a certain percent.Show lessGamera!
Issues right off the bat.
After toggling through settings, I’ve made the most recent update serviceable but I did want to address some things that I found very disappointing.
-The new fonts are thin and much harder to look at. Please bring back Slab Serif and San Francisco options, even if you like your new one. Your new fonts are bad.
-Scrolling, which can be disabled, isn’t ideal and I’m not fond of the cut off presentation at the bottom of the screen. It also makes the mark as read option more annoying to use, as the bottom of the scroll won’t auto mark because it stops dead.
-After I enabled page flipping, it still has that cut off headline at the bottom and it also doesn’t do a complete page flip. The next page has the last article from the previous page. This is poor design.
-Make Read Later simple again. It’s no longer a bookmark affair, now I have to sort everything I want to pass.
-Thank you for keeping Feedly Classic as a downloadable option. I have to ask though, what is better about this version? What has been improved besides animation? It feels like a step back and a dumbing down of a great product.Show lessPete Mayhem
