Google Reader rollback

Last night before bed, I checked reader to see if there was anything pressing… there wasn’t. However, I noticed a few changes to the reader itself:

• the ajax loading block was no longer in the middle of the screen, but was at the top, similar to their other orange notifications
• there was a way to open/close the sidebar (by clicking rather than pressing “u”)
• the feed counts bumped up an order of magnitude, and would display the actual count up to 1,000 (so instead of 100+ it would show 192, but over 1,000 would show 1,000+, which is much better)
• it felt at least 2x as fast

I didn’t thoroughly check for more features, those were just the apparent one’s. I figured I’d give it a more in-depth run this morning, but it’s back to normal now. Personally, I think they had to rollback. I say this because my photography feeds reported 1,000+ unread and I know I don’t have over 1,000 unread posts just for photography. Either way, I’m guessing a few minor updates are just around the corner.