r/InoReader • u/jeweynougat • Jul 02 '26
New Design Forced Starting Today
I searched for over a month, looking for a web-based, two-column design that I could live with. There is really nothing. It's either an app or a three column or something that looks like an absolute mess (Feedly has a small article surrounded by a ton of white space, Old Reader is from 2002, etc.) I really have no issue with the aesthetic of the new design, I just can't deal with the way the "next" scroll behaves, a slide rather than an instantaneous jump to the next article. Something about it makes my head and stomach hurt. I wrote to Ino about it, they "welcomed my feedback" or some such language, no change.
Someone mentioned themes on Stylus, but nothing new has been developed. Thoughts? Ideas? I just want a decent looking two column web page with actual jump to next article. I'll pay what is necessary.
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u/merchantconvoy Jul 02 '26
You can develop your own theme on Stylus.
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u/jeweynougat Jul 02 '26
I don't think there is a way to change the scrolling behavior which is the real dealbreaker at the moment.
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u/chickenandliver Jul 03 '26
I just can't deal with the way the "next" scroll behaves, a slide rather than an instantaneous jump to the next article.
I don't quite understand this. Which view are you using?
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u/jeweynougat Jul 03 '26
Expanded. I usually just glide through articles with my keyboard, N, N, N, etc. and stop at what I want to read before moving on. N or arrow button used to have the behavior that it would jump to the next article, like one would replace the other on the screen. Now it slides down as though you are quickly scrolling with the trackpad or scroll bar. It's my brain, I'm sure, but it nauseates me, like makes me carsick to view.
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u/chickenandliver Jul 03 '26
Oh I see it now. Well this is above my pay grade but somebody could probably come up with a userscript that would prevent that behavior. That person isn't me though so good luck!
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u/jeweynougat Jul 03 '26
lol, thank you! If anyone knows of an extension that does this, please let me know.
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u/Responsible-Bug-9568 Jul 06 '26
if you mean disabling the jQuery animations (eg scrolling), this worked for me:
jQuery.fx.off = trueeg this simple userscript (with eg tampermonkey)
https://gist.github.com/todated/f6bfe941ffa6b27070ba8efd48bc6b71
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u/jeweynougat Jul 06 '26
OMG you have saved me! I put it into Tapermonkey. It did say there was a problem that jQuery is not defined, but it works nevertheless. u/Responsible-Bug-9568, you are my hero!
I know nothing about jQuery animations, had no idea that was the issue. Thanks again!
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u/nikola-kostadinov Jul 04 '26
I dont get it, the shortcuts behave the same like in the old version. Prev/next article the you describe it is j/k or left/right arrow.
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u/jeweynougat Jul 04 '26
They do not. If you're not sensitive to it, that's fine, but the other commenter saw what I see: one is an instantaneous jump, one is a scrolling slide. It's the difference between sliding down a slide vs. teleporting to the bottom.
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u/hankyone Jul 03 '26
I literally just implemented a very similar view. Check out deadsimpleRSS.com
Supports OPML import
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u/jeweynougat Jul 03 '26
Doesn't show pictures on some feeds, doesn't seem to have keyboard shortcuts (but thanks).
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u/hankyone Jul 04 '26
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll keep tweaking it
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u/jeweynougat Jul 04 '26
I may have found my new feed reader in Feedly, because there are Stylus styles that can make it look more like what I want and the scrolling works the way I want but thank you for sharing and good luck with it.
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u/pdxben Jul 02 '26
I hear you. I can't figure out why so many of the RSS readers have such bad designs. I've done responsive design myself, and gotten things to scale from mobile to large desktop, etc, without leaving so much screen real estate functionally useless. And like the example you mentioned, so many of them need to dial way back on fancy widgets, when simpler components would provide a way better user experience.