More proof that RSS is on its way out, and the apocalypse is nigh: Google has
seemingly replaced the top link to its RSS reader product, Google Reader, with
a link to ‘Photos’ (Picasa) at the top of the Gmail web interface. To be clear,
the link is still there, it’s just hidden behind the ‘More ▼’ link now.
Boy, that place has really started falling apart since Larry Page took over as
CEO.
Sure, it’s a minor UI change, but that isn’t stopping users from going nuts
about it on Twitter.
A couple of choice tweets:
Another user posits: “Where the F**k is my link to Google Reader in Gmail?!??!
I’m sure they can see in Analytics that I use it every single day…”
And therein lies the problem, I think. You can customize Gmail to a degree, and
– particularly for a free product – that’s really awesome, but you can’t yet
change the order of the top menu items – and that’s what’s getting users riled
up.
Maybe Google will listen to this vocal subset of users, maybe they won’t. But I
think it may be better if we don’t wait to see what happens, and instead a
TechCrunch-reading developer immediately starts coding a browser extension that
puts the damn ‘Reader’ link back. Go!
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