Some feedback: WordPress reader on desktop

Navigation in reader

• There are no visible cues hinting at ability to navigate from one expanded post to the next (or previous).
• Navigating back to the post list (using back button), and then to next post makes it slow, and click heavy.
• Keyboard shortcuts work, but there are again no visible cues indicating even their presence.

Keyboard shortcuts

• No visible hints that any keyboard shortcuts exist
  • Keyboard shortcut discoverability is solely by trial and error, or ‘Google’
  • Traditionally, pressing ‘?’ (in, say, GMail or Pocket) brings up relevant shortcuts modal. Doesn’t work in reader.
  • One suggested hint could be to place a keyboard icon next to the help (?) icon, at the bottom, in the left navigation bar.
• Navigation shortcuts
  • j/k navigate to next/previous post as expected. However, the more ‘lay’ user-friendly left-arrow/right-arrow versions don’t.
  • esc key works the same as browser’s back button – navigating back through history stack (i.e. going back to last viewed post).
    • A better (expected) implementation would be to jump out of expanded-post view to the posts list view, ideally scrolled to the last viewed post.
• Like keyboard shortcut, l, works as expected. Adding f as an additional activator would be useful – a lot of platforms use favourite as an alternative to like, and some users may be more behaviourally trained to press f instead of l