Feature requests
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Support Media RSS feeds with multiple file enclosures such as Blip.TV and other video podcasts.
Several sites have Media RSS feeds with multiple file enclosures -- for instance the same video in several different formats. Right now, only a single file is shown. Adding support for Media RSS feeds would make TheOldReader a lot more useful for folks who subscribe to video podcasts and other media-rich feeds.
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Improved documentation to help guide the tons of new users that must have flocked here after the demise of Google Reader was announced.
The Knowledge Base is pretty short on answers, even for a product that is fairly intuitive. Please, someone should be posting Q&As on the Web site every day in this period of high attention, and the signed-in view should have a "Help" button somewhere.
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1 vote
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let me choose a different Google account after I already selected one.
I have 2 google accounts and I logged in to the old reader with the wrong one. I signed out and ctried to sign back in, but it wouldn't let me choose from my accounts again. Instea, it automatically signed me in with the wrong one.
I had to erase several cookies from the old reader until I was able to choose accounts again. Knowing what cookies are, knowing how to erase them and recognizing that this problem was cookie related isn't very widely known among casual internet users.
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Please add "skip to the next post" button at the top of every item in mobile interface
Just like google reader has. While using desktop version, a "n" shortcut is handy for that but you can't use it on mobile unfortunately. But it is even more important to be able to jump to another item since scrolling is so much slower.
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Make it possible to hide/remove the action buttons below each post
I just want the maximum available space for the article
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Move the mp3 player...
Hey Guys!
Thanks for adding the mp3 player so fast!!!!
Hate to ask a follow up, but if the mp3 player was on the left hand side of the screen, I could play a podcast while still reading and browsing. Right now, I have to start playing the mp3 and then open a new tab, so I can still go through my feeds.Thanks again!
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Multi-Column View
Having a multi-column view to quickly scroll through feeds was something I loved in the Sage extension for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sage/). It was sorely lacking in Google Reader until I found a user style for it (http://userstyles.org/styles/21444/google-reader-multicolumn-expanded-view). Having at least two, but ideally as many columns as defined by user preference, as an option in Old Reader would make quickly skimming large feeds a lot easier.
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Fetch and show the post's (author's) tags from the source
This is something I saw on newsblur and it's very helpful in deciding whether or not to open the full-text of a post when its title is not enough.
So the line for the list view will look like:
[post title][tag 1]...[tag n]2 votes -
Open post when clicking anywhere on the post div
When you click somewhere else than the actual characters on a .post div in a feed, the post is marked as read instead of opening. I find this very counter intuitive
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visual distinction between post titles and content in list view
In list (collapsed) view, when you open a post, its title blends in with the post body. This makes it a poor clicking target, and also makes it harder to distinguish where the post body ends and title of another post begins.
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Add an easter-egg option for Pac-Man sound effects!
If you did this, I would soooo <3 ya'll forever!!
The intro music when you load up the app.. the Pac-Man sound for when you click a new post or a page is loading.. the stage clear level when you clear a feed.. omg the possibilities~!! :D
Inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswzriFIf_k
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"Only my items"
Basically, it should be "All items" without "Following".
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Take DPI into consideration before collapsing content below sidebar
On a Nexus 7 the content is shown beneath the list of feeds when held in portrait mode despite a horizontal resolution of 800px.
On a desktop with a regular monitor, no collapsing occurs when resizing the browser window to 800px wide.
I am assuming this is due to chrome reporting a lower horizontal resolution to your css media queries due to the higher display density. I have observed that your stylesheets already take dpi into account for your logo, so I am merely suggesting that you do the same for your layout.
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The Old Reader's public feed items should have the <source> attribute
The public feeds (.rss) should have the <source> attribute (well, for better attributing, e.g. when using these links to post on Twitter, Facebook, whatever.
Like this:
<source tor:stream-id="feed/http://lifehacker.com/index.xml">
<id>
tag:theoldreader.com,2013:reader/feed/http://lifehacker.com/index.xml
</id>
<title type="html">Lifehacker</title>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://lifehacker.com" type="text/html"/>
</source>Thanks for your consideration :)
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Add different viewing/formatting panels.
Introduce view options that give say a txt only options or one that is formatted for news feeds (e.g. removes websites advertising and menus, etc), one that displays the original page in the original formatting, etc
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Help for people overwhelmed by to many articles at once
I use the "All Items" screen to read articles, and while it works, I get overwhelmed easy when I have hundred of articles to look thru and see which I want to read or not. When in list view where you only see the title of the article can you added a option to see only like 10 articles at a time and when you click next to the next group the last 10 are marked as read. Maybe even a option to mark articles into a holding area, so after I quickly skim thru several hundred articles, I can…
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minimize google account access levels requested for login
If i look in my google profile, at the list of services authorized to access my account, most if not all sites that uses open ID for login only require 'Sign in using your google account'.
Your site requires more - 'Google+ You'.
If you truly only need openid login (you have marked http://theoldreader.uservoice.com/forums/187017-feature-requests/suggestions/3743312-allow-me-to-authenticate-via-google-without-giving as completed, after all) please only require that level of access. It is good that you stopped requiring access to contacts, but not enough.3 votes -
use a bold typeface for folders. And not a grey colour either. You know, just to make them stand out a little bit more....
At the moment, folders heading just kinda recede in the background.... It would be nice for that not to happen.
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"Mark all from source as read" Near feed title on items when browsing All items or Unread folder
When I'm scrolling unread items in the All items section or in a folder of feeds I'd like the option to mark all from a certain source as read aside from the "Mark all as read" button which marks all feeds in the folder as read... This would save time by not needing to expand the folder, search the list, open the individual feed, mark all as read, then go back to the overall folder view...
1 vote
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