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  1. up arrow behaviour

    Strange behaviour of up and down arrow makes mixed arrow/scrollwheel navigation a bit confusing.

    The up arrow seems to not move to the "next unopened item" in the list, but to the "first item in the list that is visible in the current viewable area".

    Let's say I am scrolling a long list of items: some are visible on screen, some titles are up (outside of the viewable list), some are down: if I open a post, its title wil be aligned to the top of viewable area.
    If then I scroll the page a bit up, revealing headlines of…

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  2. Maintain the location in the list the selected feeds after all the items have been read

    Use shift+n a couple times to select a feed.
    Use shift+o to open the feed.
    Use n until you have read all the items.
    Now press shift+n again

    EXPECTED
    The sibling feed of the feed you just finished reading is selected. That is the feed that would be below the feed you just read, is selected.

    RESULTS
    The feed at the top of the list is selected.

    NOTES
    This is the Google reader behavior

    6 votes
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  3. Fix "Clicking on a post scrolls to it" (again)

    I appreciate that the "Clicking on a post scrolls to it" feature was improved, but the behavior is still not what I expect (i.e.: not the way Google Reader works, anyway).

    Right now, the implementation seems to be "if a post's title is lower than the top of the reading pane and the post is clicked, scroll to it". This is a problem because I can be reading a post that is in the middle of the reading pane, select text, and boom it slides up, which is clearly unwanted. Also, it only works one way: when clicking on the…

    30 votes
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  4. Feed Count in Browser Title Bar/Tab should reflect count of current folder

    easier to read than sidebar white on grey methinks....

    1 vote
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  5. On mobile web interface, scroll to top of opened item

    When I click to open a new item on the mobile safari version of the old reader, it closes the previously open item, collapsing it, and opens the new item, expanding it. Where the item's first line of text shows up, however, is completely random. When you open an article, the page should go directly to the top of that new article. The current behavior is maddening.

    5 votes
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  6. Emulate Google Reader "compact view"

    Google reader had a function call "compact view" and it compresses the headlines into a more e-mail like format.

    12 votes
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  7. Number of unread articles in favicon.

    I like my feed-reader pinned, and of course faviconised.

    46 votes
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  8. Have a "Next New" bookmarklet

    I use Google Reader's "Next" button, that you can find under the goodies section. Once in my bookmark bar, I can click it to take me to the latest updates- on the actual blog or site. I love giving the sites hits and just visiting them.

    34 votes
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  9. Mark as all as read by date option

    In Google reader, until it's unfortunate demise, you can "mark all as read" but choose "items older than x." When sometimes you come online after days away from your feeds (vacation, a great weekend, long work binges, etc.) that is an incredibly useful feature.

    10 votes
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  10. Add website icons instead of the green tite of the feeds name

    Add website icons instead of the green tite of the feeds name

    2 votes
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  11. Show subscriber count and posts per week

    One nice feature of Google Reader is you can tell how popular a feed is (or whether you've clicked the wrong one by accident) based on subscriber count. Also, if you show posts per week, I know I won't subscribe to one that inundates me with articles. Thanks.

    8 votes
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  12. Newsrob with The Old Reader

    Collaborate with Newsrob to integrare The Old Reader API with that Android app.

    18 votes
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  13. Package your app as a Firefox OS app

    And releases it in the Firefox OS marketplace - currently it lacks a good feed reader and since you are already web based it should be pretty easy to get an app of the ground using some responsive designing and then you can iterate on it from there.

    6 votes
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  15. Integration with Flipboard for iOS

    Flipboard is the best feed reading app for iOS, which currently syncs with Google Reader (including marking posts as read, etc) - please could you do a deal with them to make theoldreader work too?

    52 votes
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  16. 38 votes
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  17. Add "Mark Previous as Read" feature

    This is a feature in Google's Android app, but NOT their web interface (????). But it is OH SO helpful.

    Say you have 900 unread items, but only time to scan over 300 and read 15. With this, you can scroll through the listing, check out interesting titles, skip the rest, then hit "mark previous as read" when you have to leave. Next time you come back, you start right where you left off.

    It is, in my own opinion, a much more "powerful" feature than "Mark All as Read."

    20 votes
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  18. Implement statistics

    Implement statistics as it helps to manage feeds and keep track of The Old Reader use.

    40 votes
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  19. Move the comment button

    Right now, the comment button is too close to "unshare", and it's possible to misclick on unshare by mistake.
    If you could put "comment" somewhere else, maybe on the same level, to the right of unshare, it would be nice.
    http://theoldreader.yuku.com/topic/73/UI-comment-and-unshare

    1 vote
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  20. Bing alerts

    More of an issue I haven't been able to find a solution for. It seems that when I try to grab an RSS feed from Bing News "Subscribe by RSS" and add that one subscription to The Old Reader "Add a Subscription", The Old Reader won't accept the subscription - I can't add to my subscription list at all. I'm not sure if this is a problem other folks have run into, but would love any insight/solutions.

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