Now that my own reviews show up in my feed, as well as the recent lengthening of the number of items that appear in the feed before having to click "show more", the feed is a very solid four. If it had some sort of memory so that when you hit back it could actually take you back to where you were and what temporary filter settings you had checked, it would get five stars.

UPDATE: The feed/river or whatever you want to call it definitely runs smoother these days, and has been improved significantly. However, as I expressed in my review of commenting, I think that maybe comments should no longer be visible in the river. I think it's partially responsible for things getting stuck on one topic for too long, and I think it helps prolong arguments that end up going nowhere anyway.

One partucular feature kinda sucks. It's the "Follow me" button. While signed in, I clicked on it to see what would happen and I added myself...but there's no button to undo it.

Conversely, I went to my page while not signed it and it said the I wasn't friends with myself yet.

This made me sad...

One thing V3 made me do is to trust more regulars, I don't want to have to click on the "Everyone Feed" too often. Most of the adds were over due anyway.

We have posted on the blog some tips for how to get the most out of your feeds:

http://rateitall.blogspot.com/2009/01/todays-lesson-configuring-your-feed.html

I'm ok with My Feed. I don't much prefer the "view more" button that just reveals a longer list however.

As for Home, I still feel a little werid to see all the recent reviews right away as soon as I come to RIA. I mean, it's nice and yes that's where I always hang out anyway, but maybe I have problem adjusting to the idea that Home isn't just an introduction page to promote the site. Must be a sign of aging.

Once I figured out how to filter out the comments, the list items, the ratings without comments, and reduce what I see down to friends of friends of friends, thereby getting rid, apparently, of the myspace vermin, the feed seems fine. With this one exception. Why don't I see my own reviews in the feed?

I liked the old one better, but maybe this just has to grow on me. I don't care for the layout and it seems like things that took one click to get to before now take three.

I don't think my page is working right. I can't load a thing.

UPDATE: Who thinks this is funny? As an unpleasant side effect I haven't made a penny on Adsense today! *wails, gnashes teeth*