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  1. Use Smaller Font in Feed Title

    The feed title at the top of the right-hand pane is in a very large bold font, and does not scroll with the article. ie. it is always on the screen, and advertises what you are reading about to anyone within 20 feet.

    I always liked that Google Reader's subtlety. It had the same title but in a moderate sized font and scrollable.

    3 votes
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  2. Inline install prompt for Chrome extension

    The website should detect if a user has Chrome and doesn't yet have the extension/app, and prompt to install them.

    Implementation guidelines: https://developers.google.com/chrome/web-store/docs/inline_installation

    2 votes
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  3. fix discrepancy between unread-posts-counter and displayed feeds

    The last few days, two of my feeds have had a (1) next to them, and thus the "all items" feed has had a (2) next to it. But none of them display any unread items. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/jeGiJnC.png

    144 votes
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  4. Mobile website unstable and breaks too easily

    I can barely use TOR from my Android phone (4.1.2) from the Browser AND Firefox for Android 21.

    After a server error or randomly when performing any action, I will be either stuck on the Home screen, or I will be logged out.

    I do not experience this from Win 7 Firefox 21... well maybe rarely.

    1 vote
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  5. Blogger

    The only thing I want with a new rss reader is to be able to post the posts I want to to blogger. If you plan to add this feature GREAT! If not, can you tell me any rss reader that does? I'd greatly appreciate it

    1 vote
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  6. Integration with a Springpad

    2 votes
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  7. highlight the mobile web on your website.

    I'm a Google Reader refugee and I really like what I see in The Old Reader!

    Many people are looking for a mobile app and don't seem to realize that the mobile web version is excellent!

    I suggest you highlight this for new users as a way to satisfy those folks. Just add a shortcut button that goes to the web page and presto, no need for a native app.

    Many people seem to want an app for everything, when many apps just a the browser internally.

    1 vote
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  8. Add a style to current/active item

    Unless I'm missing something, there is nothing to distinguish the current/selected item from any other unread item (the left border goes away). Something to distinguish it would be nice - or even just add an active class to that item so I can do it with my user css :)

    1 vote
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  9. List view width adjustments

    The current list view has 3 parts, specified as:
    120px, 58%, 66px

    This mixture of % and fixed pixels corrupts the display on small screens, and wastes space on large screen.

    Please remove the "4 hours ago" on the right side, and this allows for a nice: 20% (feed title) 80% (article title) layout.

    This keeps all titles properly justified, and using all available space, at all screen sizes.

    (This also fixes: "Wrap text in list view", and many others)

    1 vote
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  10. Fix for Opera 12.15

    It works very slow on my Opera 12.15 (Win XP).

    1 vote
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  11. Show read subscriptions

    If I enable the option to hide read subscriptions, and I want to access that subscription to find a certain post, there is no way to select it without disabling that option.

    0 votes
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  12. "Go to tag/subscription/friend" keyboard shortcuts

    Few very useful shortcuts are still missing (compared to Google Reader). Quoting GR help:

    g then u go to subscription allows you to navigate to a subscription by entering the subscription name

    g then t go to tag allows you to navigate to a tag by entering the tag name

    g then f go to friend allows you to navigate to a friend's shared items by entering the friend's name

    12 votes
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  13. alphabetizing

    Is it possible to alphabetize feeds manually or automatically?
    I noticed one can drag them but that's a lot of work ... sometimes.
    Hope to hear from you,

    regards,

    Roel

    10 votes
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  14. deliver GOOGLE ALERTS to the old reader

    please show how to add a new GOOGLE ALERThttp://www.google.com/alerts to the old reader instead of the google reader or email

    11 votes
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  15. Make "Add a subscription" window collapsible

    It takes too much space in my igHome window.
    Collapsible to one line.
    Thank you very much.

    1 vote
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  16. RSS feed for posts you've liked the way shared has an rss feed.

    There is an RSS feed for shared items. Can there be a feed for liked items too?

    37 votes
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  17. Adding Persons By Twitter search/Google News/Google Blog

    In Google reader you can add a feed by "John Brown" + " Canada" in a google reader search option. How is this done on the Oldreader or is it to come as a feature

    1 vote
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  18. Provide option to make list view (even) more compact, to help with high-volume feeds.

    Big feeds like Zero Hedge or Hacker News pump out hundreds of posts per day -- RSS readers with an ultracompact list view make scanning these much easier. If The Old Reader had an ultracompact option, that'd be immensely helpful (less scrolling).

    1 vote
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  19. Fix dead feeds

    Under dead feeds, there are 5 feeds which say they have been updated 9 months ago, 3 months ago, etc. However, I also have feeds which were only updated 3 years ago which are not showing up under dead feeds. Seems like this feature is not working correctly.

    8 votes
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  20. Extra audio support

    Google Reader, Netvibes and Feedly seem to be able to play all of my mp3 podcast feeds perfectly in Firefox.

    Theoldreader seems to do nothing when i press play.

    Having emailed support they say it's because Firefox doesn't support mp3 files (which I find odd as the other three players seem to cope fine).

    I propose that theoldreader add an extra case so that it uses the existing <audio> html tag for other browsers but embeds the audio in the same way Google etc. do for Firefox users.

    24 votes
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