Thank you, whomever at WordPress rolled back the new Reader UI for browsers that debuted yesterday.
While I can see some of the benefits, I don’t think that UI was tested ahead of time. The fonts were far too small, the whitespace far too big and it made readability a bit of an eyestrain. And dropping (without warning) likes and comments to the bottom of the tab made me have to hunt too hard for those features. Again, far too much whitespace, forcing the user to hunt for the standard features we grew accustomed to using.
Other elements were welcome additions — if you could find them (read time is helpful, for instance). And it did not work on mobile browsers. At all. Panels overlapped, preventing any useability whatsoever.
But this fixation across all tech with UI that uses ever-decreasing font sizes and is otherwise either too spacious or to crowded… Eww.
So thank you WP team for rolling that back. There are good ideas in that, but it was poorly implemented. My eyes are much happier.
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