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I read about your awesome Firefox extension that works with Google Reader. Yay!

I went to your site and installed the extension. There's a cryptic box that I have to magically guess what to enter, unless I have a couple of minutes to burn watching the instructional video. (Since when did it become ok to replace a simple text box label "Email" with a 2 minute video?) It's ok, I finally figured it out and put in my email. It claims to have done something, but check my email and I don't get anything. That's ok, though, even though I didn't get any visual indication that something changed whatsoever on your page, the Get Extension link is magically enabled.

Finally! I click it and install the extension. Excitedly, I go to Google Reader. Ha ha!, a pop up says. You can't read your feeds, you silly fool. First you have to sign up for an account with AideRSS. Hrm. Ok. So I sign up.

Ok, now I'll be able to use this functionality. Back to Google Reader, the pop up comes up again, I click to activate. Another cryptic text box with no explanation as to what I should be putting in, or where I'm supposed to get an invite key. Browsing the web for other disgruntled users--of which there are many--I learn that the last 15 minutes of my life screwing around with this thing and signing up for accounts I didn't want were all for naught. You're going to send me an invite key when you're good and goddamned ready and not a minute before.

In the meantime, I suppose it's incumbent upon me to uninstall your lame-assed extension lest it hold my Google Reader account hostage until you deign to bestow one of your invites upon me.

Now I'll tell you how I, or any other person not brain-dead, would've designed this. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO INSTALL AN EXTENSION YOU CANNOT USE. Give me clear instructions how to request an invite, and when I get that invite, along with the invite code, give me a link to the page where I can get the extension and install it. Without the code, as I've come to realize, this whole thing is just one big masturbation session.

Thanks AideRSS!