Feature requests
636 results found
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Keep all unread posts, not only the newest ones when not using Reader for a while
When one is offline during holidays they might want to see all the news from the period of time, not only the newest ones. Keep all the unread posts.
101 votes -
Don't hide scroll bars
On a PC without a fancy scroll function it is rather hard to scroll up and down the subscription list. You need to move the mouse to where you think the scroll bar is and then look up and down the screen for a small blob of green. Ideally the scroll bar should not be hidden no matter where the pointer is, and the rest of the bar to be a slightly different colour to the background. As we all know just because Google have started doing it does not make it right.
165 votes -
Refresh button and 'r' key not working the same
The 'r' key does not refresh my feeds. If I press 'r', the screen fades for a moment, then returns, but does not update the feed. If I then immediately click the 'Refresh' button, I get several new items in the feed. This happens in many feeds, but one example is: http://rss.briefing.com/Investor/RSS/StoryStocks.xml. Please fix
1 vote -
make windows phone browsers work
Currently when going to the old reader on windows phone you get an exact look like using a desktop browser. More specifically: feed list on the left and on the right the stories. However if you have a long list of feeds in your menu you can't scroll all the way down so it's not usable.
On Android you get it nicely under each other (which isn't optimized but at least works).
I guess recognizing mobile IE and giving it the same rendering as Chrome on Android should do the trick.
Thanks,
Jorn
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MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS you don't support old browsers like IE 8!!!!
I just spent all this time setting up an account and importing my Google Reader data---only to find the Old Reader is unusable because my browser is outdated. Grrrr! Very annoying! You can do better than that. I have visited other reader websites that told me up front what they did and didn't support.
4 votes -
Add subscription in batches
I would love to see a function which allows me to add multiple subscriptions, e.g. one for each line in a textarea field.
I know that there is an import function but I've a collection of RSS feeds in a text document which I now either have to add one at the time or convert into an OPML file and then import it, both is quite time consuming.
2 votes -
allow feeds to load beyond import time
my feeds are only listing items as far back as around the day i imported from google reader. scrolling down farther than may 30 or 31 displays this message: "No posts below this line. Probably you have read them all." first of all, i have not read them all, and second, even if i have, i still want to be able to go back to them. right now i have a lot of feeds with unread posts from last week that i cannot see.
1 vote -
Scroll bar in list mode too narrow
Please make the scroll bar to the right in list mode a bit wider. Now it is hard to get the mouse pointer easily to the right spot. I use a 1680x1050 screen resolution on a laptop.
Thanks for a good reader!
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Fetch Full Content
I use some chrome plugins with google reader that fetch the full content (or specific parts of the content) from the site when the RSS feed is abbreviated. I would love for this functionality to be built into the old reader (or have those plugins work with the old reader).
Super Full Feeds for Google Reader
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-full-feeds-for-goog/khbjahpecnkenngkidhioicnfpakihgoGoogle Reader Full Feed
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-reader-full-feed/ngjdkiihbphbiaeaaghhlacjnoekdcfe197 votes -
support feeds with broken hostnames
Old Reader doesn't currently support feeds with technically broken hostnames like username-.tumblr.com/rss while Google Reader and several other readers do.
I'd really love to see Old Reader as a complete replacement for Google Reader and for that I think at a minimum you need to be able to support all the same feeds.
1 vote -
Hi dear Please add the ability to display feeds in Arabic and Farsi View texts from right to left
Hi dear
Please add the ability to display feeds in Arabic and Farsi
View texts from right to left1 vote -
Have an option for people who just want to actually read their articles.
That means no gradients, rounded corners or silly fonts.
1 vote -
Un-bold the headline after you click on it.
In Reader, when you click on a story and read it, the headline becomes un-bolded and marked read. in TheOldReader, even after I click on a headline, it stays bolded.
116 votes -
Set a feed to automatically add all new articles to Pocket
I like the Pocket integration, as I often read the list of new articles in the morning, add to Pocket the ones that I want to read, and then read them offline with Pocket on my way to work. This works fine, but I noticed that for some feeds I always add all new articles to Pocket. It would be great, if I could have some kind of a setting on those feeds to make The Old Reader automatically add all the new articles to Pocket, without me having to do it manually.
13 votes -
Add subscription from a friend
I'm missing a simple feature. A simple clip to subscribe someone else's shared subscriptions, not following him
3 votes -
Blogroll/Link List HTML Generator
On my website, I have a tab for "Links" to share the sites that I enjoy reading. I published that link page with HTML that Google Reader produced based on subscriptions I had. I had reader set up in folders (News, Gossip, Recipes, Fun Stuff, Fashion, etc) and I could create HTML for each folder listing links to all my subscriptions.
Would love to see that here to replace that, so that I do not have to manually update, it just mimics what I am reading.
27 votes -
4 votes
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Give the option to change Facebook account
I am now using a different Facebook account but I can't find an option to disconnect my old one and connect my new one.
7 votes -
Smart folders
I'd love for there to be a way to define smart folders, such as "Only today's posts", "Only this week's posts", calculated by the user's current location / timezone.
2 votes -
Allow folders to be placed in Subscription folder.
And allow folders and feeds to be placed in any order in subscription folder.
3 votes
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