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Things that annoy me about Google Reader

After a couple of weeks trying out Google Reader these are the things I am finding annoying:

1. Can't count past 100.


2. Sidebar occasionally gets out of sync with main pane and doesn't update properly.


3. Can't view starred items by category/feed - it is a global list.


4. The scrolling-marks-items-as-read has a bug when you read a long feed, then click on a short feed: the main pane stays scrolled down, and any short items will be marked as read.


5. Clicking on the "Mark all as read" link for a feed makes the items disappear, whereas clicking on the "Mark as read" for an individual item just makes it scroll to the next.


6. Doesn't handle certain & characters in feed titles properly.


7. It can be slow, most noticably when scrolling a long list of items - slowly scroll through 20, when you hit the last one it slowly starts to load the next 20. Maybe it could start at 10 so by the time I get to the 20th item it would have them already?


8. If an item consists of a single link, and I click that link, you can mark the item as having been read, instead of forcing me to separately specify it as read. Really, I won't mind.


9. Not providing a specific time associated with each item.


10. I wish I could have the built-in mp3 player for enclosures open in a popup window, so I could play something and keep browsing around to other feeds/groups. To be fair, Bloglines has this problem, too.

Annoying enough to go back to Bloglines yet? No. Maybe I am still a little too bloglines-influenced in my usage pattern so I keep encoutering bumps in google reader.

UPDATE: Of course, after I finally post this list, some of these have already been fixed. Time to find more, I guess...