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  1. open topics using Google Mobilizer (http://www.google.com/gwt/x) in a 'cut-down' mobile interface for smart phones / tablets

    4 votes
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  2. Small changes in design and layout

    Small changes in design and layout

    I realy like Old Reader, closest to GR for me, so I have something to suggest for even better user experience (at least in my opinion)

    original
    http://i.imgur.com/gLqjdU0.png

    explanation:
    1) I think this section is useless, selected feed easily can be seen in subscriptions tree. Plus this dark bubbles kinda distract a little bit.
    2) If we remove (1) we can lift up (2) buttons and it's give us extra vertical space (which is important in 1080p age :)
    3) This icon looks like list items is blended together, don't know if it's bug…

    1 vote
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  3. Sort posts by the time of update

    Sort posts by the time of appearance in the reader. Currently - if I understand it correctly - the posts are sorted by the time of publication. Due to the delays in the feed updates, it often happens that updated posts don't appear on top of the list and I miss them.

    5 votes
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  4. View unread + liked posts

    I often use the star/like feature to mark read posts that I want to refer back to. I would like the option to see all the posts that are relevant to me (that means unread as well as liked) when viewing a feed.

    The liked posts view is unfortunately pretty worthless to me as it shows me all liked posts. Without the context of the feed there are just too many posts here for me to find anything or get any sort of overview.

    9 votes
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  5. Dont show feeds on All Items when they are in a closed/colapsed folder.

    When you close a folder from feeds, they sould not be seen on the All Items.

    It's a good way to see multiple feeds, keeping those that you don't want to see at the moment away.

    7 votes
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  6. increase the size of the reading pane

    I am really thrilled with the idea of something to take over for Google Reader and am glad you guys took on the project.
    On a 13" widescreen laptop with Chrome filling the entirety of vertical space and the majority of horizontal space, the reading pane is fairly small. Between the large Masthead/search bar and then the feed-specific information bar, it takes a lot of scrolling to read through an article. I'd love for the ability to customize space or at least offer a full browser window reading pane option with shortcut, like GReader.

    Thank you!

    3 votes
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  7. Configure set focus on comment box when shared

    I don't usually like put comments in my shares. It would be great if the focus in the comment box is configurable. So i can share and continue pressing 'j' to read more articles.

    6 votes
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  8. offer an option to donate to TOR via old-fashioned U.S. mail. I do not use any of the social network sites - senior citizen.

    2 votes
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  9. implement basic syntax highlighting for pre, code and/or samp tags

    I subscribe to a growing number of programming-related blogs, and posts with larger pieces of code become much less comfortable to read than on the origin website. I think (even very basic) syntax highlighting would remedy this.

    3 votes
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  10. same feed in two different folders

    5 votes
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  11. add an option to display similar feeds

    In Google reader, next to the feed title, there the option arrow related to this feed. Among those options, one I find really usefull displays the similar feeds (similar or related content) and subscribe to this feed.

    Such an option would be nice in The Old Reader

    3 votes
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  12. Sort (and sync) by date

    I've just imported from Reader, but I'm having to comb through 2000+ updates from 4 years ago. Limiting the period in which to sync would be helpful.

    1 vote
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  13. Полоса прокрутки

    У вас полоса прокрутки не в самом краю находится. Из-за этого, когда по привычке кидаешь мышку в правый край до упора, полоса прокрутки остаётся в миллиметре слева, и по ней нужно специально целится. А поскольку она ещё и тоненькая, то целится становится не так и просто

    13 votes
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  14. Do not strip background colours of feeds

    For example for the RSS feed of wikipedia's recent changes, the changes to each wiki article are highlighted through the use of colours.
    See:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom

    However, background colors are stripped to conform with the theme of the old reader, but making it difficult to see what has actually changed.

    Please add the setting to disable this.

    13 votes
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  15. List view in mobile - open posts at top of post

    On my iPhone when viewing in list view, it seems to open the post sometimes at the bottom of the post, sometimes the middle, rarely (but not never) the top. Consistency at the top would be better

    1 vote
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  16. a tab for seeing the original post

    This helps a lot for feeds that don't include the full-text in the feed. Or don't post things like user comments in the feed. Instead of clicking on the post to open it in a new window/tab it'd be nice if once can just click on tab under the post to switch from "feed view" to "original view".

    9 votes
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  17. "No post below this line..." not appearing in feed panel on mobile device at end of list

    On my Nexus 7, using Android Firefox, the message:

    "No posts below this line. Probably you have read them all."

    does not appear when I have scrolled to the end of the feed list.

    This makes it difficult for me to judge whether I have really read all the posts in the feed or I should wait for TheOldReader to fetch more feed items.

    4 votes
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  18. Multiple sharing channels

    GR featured channels/folders/tags you could make public via RSS.

    E.g. you could have channels named "science news" and "health" which you would be able to syndicate further to sites like FB.

    (It would be AWESOME to have it here. This feature was the only thing keeping me on GR.)

    13 votes
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  19. Aphabetical Sorting Within A Folder

    Please allow users to sort their subscription (not only folders) in alphabetical order.

    Example: Folder News has 100 feeds. If subscription #1 posts an article starting with "Nasa discovers ..." at 1:03 PM, the subscription # 2 posts same article at 3:45 PM, we dont want to read the same article twice.

    Alphabetical sorting will save us time to not read same thing twice.

    Thanks in advance

    7 votes
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  20. tidy display of posts with pictures

    Posts with pictures at the top align the first line of the text to the right of the image and then there's a big gap before the text continues below the image. It would be awesome if you could prevent this from happening somehow.

    1 vote
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