Thank you everyone for the survey results. They're illuminating. There were requests for help documentation which I will address in the future. For the moment, I do have this blog and I know a lot more of you are reading it now.
There is understandable confusion about the side swiping order of feeds. It's actually really simple: it's the same order as the feed list. If a folder is expanded in the list then you'll swipe through each individual feed. If your folders are collapsed then you'll jump folder to folder. You can see this if you play with it in landscape orientation. Expand and collapse folders and the swipe order will always match what you see in the list.
Swiping between feeds doesn't appear to be a feature that is used by as many people as I expected. I consider that a failing on my part to expose and explain it because it's really awesome. I like to use the app in portrait orientation and rarely even look at my feed list. I order my list at Google Reader so that the stuff I care about is up top. When I use River of News I have it in portrait and I start with the first folder and scroll, swipe, scroll, swipe. I'm always looking at the content, not fussing with the UI. And isn't that the goal?
Really love that feature. I use it all the time.
ReplyDeleteI use the portrait orientation too and the swiping is a very nice feature!
ReplyDeleteI must admit I always use the "everything" feed, so don't tend to swipe left and right. I ought to discipline myself into reading site specific feeds and swiping.
ReplyDeletePortrait and left/right swipe rules!
ReplyDeleteThis way I am using all real estate. There is only one issue with video. If you start in portrait, set video to full screen and then rotate the full screen video goes behind the text. The only way to get out this is leaving the app and restart.
Landscape here
ReplyDeleteDouble click for next story and left swipe for next feed guides me easily through my daily news :)