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  1. Add option to highlight read/unread items differently

    As a refugee from Google Reader, a nice feature I see missing is having the whole row for an item highlighted according to read status.
    White for unread, yellow for currently selected, grey for read items.

    You have the little green indicator next to each line, but whole line highlighting will make it easier to use at a glance.

    94 votes
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  2. Show only subscriptions with new posts

    I'd like to be able to see a list of my subscriptions that shows only those feeds that have new content. Is this possible?

    1 vote
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  3. [List view] Add button to open a post in a new window

    I would appreciate it very much if there were a button available for each post in the list view such that it would allow me to open the post in a new window/browser tab. Upon clicking this button, the post should be marked as read.

    124 votes
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  4. disable rss feeds temporarily

    I have rss feeds for work i would like to disable when i'm home, so it would be great if we could stop the feeds temporarily

    9 votes
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  5. Move the 'unsubscribe' button

    The 'unsubscribe' button and 'mark all as read' button are too close to each other, and the wrong button could be pressed by mistake. Suggestion is to move the unsubscribe button to the other side of the screen, or simply elsewhere.

    NB : There was already a suggestion for this which has been marked as 'completed'. However they're still right next to each other, so submitting this again.

    26 votes
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  6. Embedded Audio

    First off, I love The Old Reader. I was a Google Reader user and--of all the possible replacements--The Old Reader is my favorite. My only hesitation is that it seems to be stripping content from some of my feeds.

    As an example, the feed below should have an AAC file embeded in each post:

    http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/imix/imixid=646113515/sf=143441/xml?v0=9984

    The feed shows up in The Old Reader fine--albeit without the AAC files. If you enter the same RSS feed into Google Reader or Feedly, the AAC files show up fine.

    Do you know why this is? Can you make it so that the files…

    9 votes
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  7. Buttons above AND below posts, instead of just below.

    Here's the idea- how about the same buttons that appear under the posts (share, like...) also appear above it? It's sure would be useful for when I'm browsing my feeds at work (or other place, where my browsing time is limitted), I see something that interests me, and would like to like it for later (so I could return to it when I have the time). As for now it requires a massive amount of scrolling if the post happens to be a long one.

    6 votes
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  8. Ability to Star (or Mark) items while still collapsed

    I have to open a post to mark it (using key 'l'). I would like a way to mark it for later reading while just reading the headline while the list is collapsed.

    6 votes
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  9. Non-.db Image Cache for offline viewing

    I'd like to see an image cache that stores images associated with a post for offline viewing. I'd also like to see this be just a standard cache instead of an .db cache which you can't easily sift through like you can a regular cache folder in Finder.

    1 vote
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  10. undo unsubscribe

    Currently when I unsubscribe from a feed, the action is final, with no way to resubscribe. I can't even go to the same feed because the link to it is promply forgotten. The website takes me to a default home page; instead it should stay on the same feed until I decide to move away or perhaps resubscribe.

    15 votes
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  11. As a user I would like to configure my start page, e.g. "All items"

    In many cases I would like to start with the "All items" page instead of the current "Home" page. So, it would be helpful to configure in the settings page the starting page one personally likes to have.

    23 votes
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  12. Duplicate Item

    I'd like a way to remove/ auto-mark as read any duplicate feed based on content

    10 votes
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  13. FInd out why the pull-down menu is corrupting the Home page?

    I appreciate that as a recent Old Reader convert I am liable to make many mistakes, but I notice that for me, using Google Chrome Beta as my browser under Windows 8-64bit, I am finding the pull down menu overlays and corrupts the text at the top right of the Home screen, and from then on. I am using the native theme.

    1 vote
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  14. allow pasting OPML data into text area

    File upload is broken in some mobile browsers, like Google Chrome. As a mitigation, we could allow users to paste the OPML data into a text area as an alternative.

    3 votes
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  15. Implement OStatus

    If you could implement OStatus (or a similar open social messaging standard) to replace the internal sharinf functionality, people doesn't need to find all their friends in TheOldReader, they can just post to their existing network...

    1 vote
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  16. "Scrolling through post marks it as read" setting per view type

    It looks like some users do not like "scrolling through post marks it as read" as a global setting and would prefer being able to configure this behavior separately per view type.

    24 votes
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  17. Keyboard shortcut to open next folder with unread items

    Many people (including myself) navigates through folders and reads them. I really would like to see a keyboard shotcut that takes me to the next folder that contains unread items (like Shift + n, but skips read folders) and then automatically opens it (Shift + o). That would save me many key strokes.

    4 votes
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  18. Ad the possibility to select a default folder when opening the old Reader

    Ad the possibility to select a default folder when opening the old Reader

    4 votes
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  19. Requesting that all keyboard shortcuts be accessible on one side of the keyboard.

    I didn't realize that I used this on Google's reader, but all the shortcuts I use are on the right hand portion of the keyboard. Thus, you don't have to be perched over your keyboard when browsing the reader. Can I request that all shortcuts be executable with only one hand? Currently, I'm missing having the toggle-view shortcut, which is mapped to 'x' instead of Google's 'o'.

    Thanks for the awesome free web app!

    7 votes
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  20. Duplicate posts in trending section

    Please guys, would it be possible to get rid of duplicate posts in trending section? I find it a bit annoying. Thank you!

    7 votes
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