Reader niggles

Bah! Been messing about with Google Reader today, and found two pretty big niggles.

The first one, is that the reader tries to eat up ALL of the feed! I've no idea if it does this every time, or (knowing, Google's love of privacy policies) stores it all their side and gives you the updated version. Either way, it just makes no sense! Information is all good an' all, but why do I need to have year old forum posts there? All it does for me is worry about how much bandwidth I'm stinging AL's server for every time I just want to catch up on the latest forum posts.

The second one, is their share option. I've also got into del.icio.us this week, so can see the value of social bookmarking, but I don't want my real bloody name so associated with my google account and little way to change that (other than changing my name in the account). Is only first name, but still.

I've no problem with a beta tag, but yet again, I except these things all shiny when released. If not, at least some give me some control over how the service works for me.