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  1. Ablity to hide article attachments or set not to display them inline

    On some feeds, there are inline images in news body, but also same images are attached to news item as attachment. TOR displays those images in news body, as it should, but also displays same image as inline attachment to article. In result, I can see something that looks like duplicate images in articles.

    Example feed: http://gazeta.pl.feedsportal.com/c/32739/f/576334/index.rss

    8 votes
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  2. Push notifications

    It would be awesome if old reader would send push notifications to mobile phone so you would get feed news as soon as they happen (or at least as soon as reader checks them).

    Or maybe add some sort of API for it. After quick glance, I can see it can only retrieve data by polling.

    15 votes
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  3. Hide some unnecessary contents on the page, so that there will be larger space for reading.

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  4. "Keep unread" checkbox

    Please add a "keep unread" checkbox to each feed item. If selected, the item should be kept unread even if "Mark all as read" is used or "Scrolling through posts marks them as read" is active and the item is scrolled through.

    This is a feature Google Reader unfortunately never had, but the old version of Bloglines had it and it was missed by many users when old style Bloglines was no more. It would be a great addition to The Old Reader.

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  5. Allow for interface customization

    Either provide some flexible options (colors, fonts, text size, etc.) or open source it for modification. I find the default interface a bit hard on the eyes and would like to tweak, at the very least, colors and text sizes.

    8 votes
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  6. Remove URL of article in title (if title in RSS is empty) // Убрать адрес статьи из названия записи, если у записи нет своего названия в rss

    I mean this http://i.imgur.com/8MqWobT.png

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  7. 'Mark All As Read' option in Search

    I use the search function as a way to filter undesirable posts, but unfortunately the 'mark all as read' option isn't available in the search mode. It forces me to manually click on each and every article I want to delete from my feed. It's impractical and tiresome.

    Please make 'mark all as read' possible within the search function.

    8 votes
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  8. support for mobile devices

    Hi guys!

    Can't login using my Opera Mini from my Nokia E72. Could you please fetch this bug? I'm mostly read my feeds from smartphone and don't think I'm the only one.

    thnx in advance!

    Kind regards.
    DS

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  9. List View Bulk Action: Mark Some as Read

    When in List View, I would love to have little check boxes so I can do a bulk action, marking several posts as "Read" at once WITHOUT losing all the other posts. Please?

    Bloglines has this feature, but it doesn't have Search (that I've been able to find). You have Search, but no bulk action (unless I want to mark everything as read, which I don't!) If only I could find a reader that had both...

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  10. Zoom articles with + and - (change font size)

    just like in Google Reader, I'd like increase the font size just by pressing the plus button and decrease with the minus button.

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  11. How can I search/log key words like I did with Google reader/alerts?

    I cant seem to set up keyword searches on your application- just feeds to web sites? Am I missing something?

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  12. Allow sorting of posts by title (invaluable for web forum topic feeds)

    I follow a lot of web forum topics via RSS, as it's so much easier than visiting each website every day to see what replies have been posted to each topic.

    It's much easier to read these feeds if I can sort the posts in the same way that emails would show up in my inbox -- namely, the original topic post first, followed by replies. NetNewsWire v3 is the only app I have that currently allows me to do this (screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1802478/nnw-forum-feeds.png), but I'd love to move away from it to a service like yours that would that…

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  13. Show both actual timestamp and "x hours ago" for each article

    Right now, you have to hover over the "x hours ago" timestamp to see the actual time of the post. There is plenty of room to list both, so please do so. (GReader used to show both).

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  14. Native mac Client

    I would like a native Mac client, not sure if this should be requested of you or the development community.

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  15. Remove Facebook

    I added support/allowed access to my facebook account, but now I want to remove all linkage to that. All I see is the option to remove it from my profile. I want, however, to remove all traces of facebook from my reader.

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  16. bigger navigation arrows

    on ipad the up and down are very small. Can you increase teir size.

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  17. Allow nested folders

    Google Reader never supported this, but many other RSS readers do. It would be great to be able to have nested folders for mass operations (mark all as read) and better organization of feeds.

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  18. Make a mobile view compatible with Opera Mini.

    As Opera Mini doesn't support javascript properly, it's horrible to use The Old Reader on an older phone. It's not even possible to open a feed item.

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  19. Sort folders as GR did: By feed order by date, not all feeds collectively by date

    Group each feed in a folder together in the order in which it is arranged. When changing the sort order by date, retain the feed order in the folder. This is how GR did it.

    Currently, viewing the feed of a folder does not reflect the order of the folder; manually ordering the folder structure does not affect the feed order. This is not how GR did it.

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  20. Publicly share/export folders

    I am a web developer that has been using Google Reader as an RSS feed aggregator, that then provides specific aggregated feeds to display on websites. To give an example, I have aggregated about 30 different feeds providing news about the media in Greece. I then take the single, aggregated folder from Google Reader, and using a script on my website, all of the articles from that folder are displayed, in a customized format that matches the design and layout of the site.

    I'm not a professional, so some of the technical terminology and understanding may elude me, but through…

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