strange ui and flakey function

i have a ton of feeds im trying to land somewhere and figured i would give this a try. well i got them all loaded and it blew up a few times in the process but i figured i would keep going forward and try to make this work. got everything loaded up and started reading feeds. well, i really dont get the interface. theres this band at the bottom of the window of the articles that you are reading that is gray and takes up a third or quarter of the reading area. HUH? no way to turn this odd thing off and its an annoyance. well i read 15 or so articles then i got a beachball and it had to be force-quit. oh well, i guess this is not going to work.

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