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This seems to be a recurring theme with Dave Winer - he thinks everyone should want to view the news the same way, in a newspaper view type of mode. In BottomFeeder, there are a number of was to view new stuff. You can switch to "all new" mode, and that itself has two modes - a list of all the new items in a 2 pane mode, or the tree of feeds/items in a 3 pane mode. I started with just the 2 pane mode, but added the second view due to user demand. Personally, I like reading the new stuff in 2 pane mode - but people's tastes differ.

Likewise, I added a newspaper view awhile back, and you can slam BF into that mode - selecting a folder in that mode will place all the new items in a scrolling newspaper view. It pages, because larger HTML views are somewhat unwieldy. What this amounts to is that Bf allows users to customize the way they view new stuff - it doesn't provide a single way. I would have preferred staying with a single way, but my users had other ideas :)