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  1. search by article's url

    I want to mark (star, like) article I read in my (amazon kindle) reader
    I have title and url, but (in case of my favorite server) they're quite often changing article titles, so in case when in tor is article not found I must open its web page (url), copy (part of its) title and search again = being able to search for url directly in tor it will be easier for me

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  2. Let me find my contacts via Twitter, instead of just FB or Google.

    Simply because most other services let you use Twitter contacts, and I'm sure I have more followers than FB friends using the service.

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  3. Widget to display a list of feeds I'm subscribed to

    I've searched but can't see this suggested elsewhere; apologies if this is a duplicate.

    Google Reader used to have a widget that you could use in, say wordpress, to provide a list of the feeds/blogs you were following, which could be done at a folder level.

    The reason why I'd like this functionality is because I follow a number of IT-related blogs that I'd like to list on my own blog. Whilst I have just hardcoded it, it would be very nice if it could be dynamic and pick up new blogs that I add over in TOR automatically.

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  4. can feeds refreshed automatically after 1 min

    can feeds refreshed automatically after 1 min

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  5. Be compatible with hint-mode by making all clickable interfaces anchor tags

    tl;dr: Make <div class="pull-left list-header no-left-label">...</div> into an <a> tag.

    In keyboard-focused browser interfaces, such as

    • Vimperator
    • cVim
    • vimFx
    • Vimium
    • qutebrowser

    one can highlight and select links easily without the mouse. Typically, one presses 'f' (follow link) and all the links currently visible get little yellow boxes next to them. Press the keys in the box and you follow the link.

    Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKyUQZBZRK8

    Links are found by selecting all the 'a' elements on the page. Link hinting typically cannot detect if an arbitrary element has had an onClick event handler added due to browser security features.

    To support link hinting,…

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  6. integrate RSVP - rapid serial visual presentation - into your product

    A number of apps using RSVP to increase reading speed for screens are available, integrating one or more with the old reader would improve its functionality

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  7. keep the link to What's Trending without having to register

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  8. Search only in unread posts

    Search only in unread posts:
    I want a checkbox "Search only in unread posts" next to the search button.
    I often need a search which only searches in my unread posts.

    Thanks, Jan

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  9. Fix feed

    I have 419 active YouTube subscriptions. Why I check YouTube daily for New vids some of the subscribers and videos are not even being shown in the feed. I got this account to show all YouTube vids because YouTube won't. And now I don't even know what's right

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  10. Support Microsoft Surface in your App for windows mobile

    The Old Reader web version doesn't display properly in chrome for this platform, the preview window clips the right margin on any story longer than a line.

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  11. UWP Windows 10 app

    please make an official Windows 10 UWP app. The other 3rd party apps appear not to be under further development...

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  12. "Sort by popularity" and/or relevance

    Going through a feed you haven't read for a few days can be painful, as hundreds or even thousands of posts may have piled up in the meantime.

    Today, your options are going through everything or just marking it read and restarting.

    I want a middle way, where you can sort the feed by popularity (# of starred, # of people who've clicked through, I'm sure you have a lot of metrics that can be combined to form 'popularity' ).

    That way, you'll hopefully get more of the best posts you've missed in easy reach, and when you feel you've…

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  13. loose the huge add on leftside lower

    bad add placement loose it

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  14. test the old reader with firefox on android

    The currenrt behavior of buttons and links is extremely sluggish. It somtimes takes more than one second to get visible feedback. I can never be sure whether the "click" worked or not. Too much ajax I guess.
    I am using the most recent firefox. And yes, the mobile firefox is aterrible browser implementation with serious performance issues, but who wants privacy intruders like chrome?

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  15. Filter in feeds

    I used Yahoo Pipes (it was removed this week) to filter items within a feed; it would be so much better if The Old Reader could do this directly.

    What it did was it read a Google Sheet which had a column of filter terms; only feed items with those terms would be displayed on the feed the pipe created.

    It would be a lot quicker and more user friendly if The Old Reader could read this sheet (or have its own way to save filter terms) and then filter feeds based on it.

    I really hope this functionality will…

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  16. More "Share" RSS Feed !!!

    The only RSS Feed is "share button" I would really love more RSS Feed for instance for "like" and "star" and may be more ...

    Why ? I "share" every Article usefull and create a Post on Wordpress/Twitter/Facebook

    But I only have one stream :-( so I can't split topics...

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  17. make the internet “a more thoughtful, engaging and self-aware environment.”

    I saw this line on a Zen Pencils comic. It was about Robert Ebert's blog, which I have not read yet. But it struck me as something that I pine for a lot.

    Is there anything in your technical prowess that you could do to bring "thoughtful, engaging and self-aware" content to your readers?

    Popular social networking sites have utterly failed at delivering this in my view. I don't know how it can be done better, but i see hope in the particular kind of people that support TOR ... people that see value in RSS feeds.

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  18. Allow us to sort in random order.

    Instead of just "normal" and "reverse," it would be nice to be able to randomize the order in which items are displayed.

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  19. Convert any site into a RSS Feed

    Before I make a subscription to the Old Reader, I have one question. Is it possible to use Old Reader to generate RSS feed from any source of website? I'd like to subscribe the Old Reader service forever if it can! Thanks !

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  20. Mark post as read in all feeds

    There are some feeds that have the same post, and hence it is cumbersome to have it displayed over and over (for example new publication on arxiv.org). It would be very useful if a post that is marked as read is marked as read in all the feeds where it appears.

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