2011
Former Google Developer Offers to Help Fix Google Reader - Forbes
Affordances have gone awry, the relative implied importance of use cases (such as subscribing) have fallen out of balance, and visual grouping of related items has been whitewashed away.
My offer to Google Reader « fox @ fury
by 1 otherWhile those products are important, they don’t meet the same needs that Google Reader was designed to, and Reader should not fall by the wayside, a victim to fashion.