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Comment by ttonelli | Hacker News Reader

I couldn't take it anymore. After living for a while with the Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, which allowed me to simply hide some of the stupid white space, this last change made Reader essentially unusable.

Today I switched to Bloglines, and I can keep using j, k, etc.

I have to thank Google, however, for making my switch so easy with their export utility...

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I don't know if this is considered blatent advertising or not. But I worked pretty hard on getting my chrome extension replacement for google reader done. I would love it if people would check it out. I made it because I couldn't stand the UI for Google Reader in the first place. I'm open to adding features like short cut keys ( fairly easy to implement) Please check it out at http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH

No way to import?

I'm currently using JSON to hold feeds but creating a JSON string from OPML should be lemon squeezy... Great idea. Thank you.

Was going to give it a whirl until I saw it was a Chrome extension. I use Chrome but thus far resisted any content formatting extensions. Extensions feel a little too ActiveX control-ish for me.

Well I'm not sure how I can convince you other than to say it is quite like running another web page on your browser. Quite literally. Chrome extensions are built using HTML, CSS and Javascript just like anything else on the web.

The reason I think this extension makes sense is purely because users should have control over the way in which they read and see content. I'm not a big fan of restrictions being imposed on us just because some designer somewhere thought that's the way it should be. I've built in an editor that let's you create your own viewing interface. Give it a shot!

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