Feature requests
559 results found
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Proper scroll bar
Your interface is a usability nightmare. That green scroll bar only becomes visible on hover, so I spend much of my time hovering up and down trying to find it, and then it's so small it's hugely difficult to click on. What's worse, why isn't there a way to scroll with the keyboard?!
THE INTERFACE IS UNUSABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 vote -
I reject to read this post buton
It takes 30 seconds to mark a post as read, even though you are not interested and want it out of the queue.
it takes 5 minutes to mark 10 post as read, even though the title shows crearly that THEY ARE NOT INTERESTING TO YOU.3 votes -
Add an option to display the favicon of a feed instead of feed title in reading list
I find the favicons easier to distinguish than the uniformly green block feed titles, and you obviously have them available, because they're displayed in the list of feeds. Thanks!
1 vote -
Have an option for' mark read to here'
many RSS readers allow you to hide what you've already scrolled thru so you can close it at any point & go back. Here we have to read all the way thru & then mark 'all as read'.
4 votes -
RTL interface localization
Interface localization for RTL languages like Persian
7 votes -
Fix drag-and-drop in Firefox
Using the latest Firefox on Mac OS X, when I drag-and-drop feeds into folders they never seem to hit the right folder. The moved feed always seems to appear in the folder previous.
3 votes -
Show randomly picked starred entries on the homepage.
Right now, starred posts are only there if you go looking for them. Adding more stuff might make the homepage a bit overcrowded though.
2 votes -
Accept Bitcoin for prepaid subscriptions
Allow me to pay for X months of subscription with Bitcoin.
21 votes -
Specify prefered MIME type in Accept header when fetching feeds
Currently The Old Reader fetches feeds with an "Accept: /" HTTP header.
Some servers return content in different formats on a single URL depending on the Accept HTTP header. The current value of The Old Reader's header say that it doesn't care about the format. If the server's default format is not RSS or Atom, this makes it impossible to subscribe to such a feed in The Old Reader.
The Old Reader should specify in the Accept HTTP header that it prefers the "application/atom+xml" and "application/rss+xml" over other MIME types.
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Search feed titles
It would be nice if search could also display a list of feed names that matched the criteria, to allow me to get to a particular feed easily.
Currently, if I need to copy a feed URL and it has no unread posts, then I have to go to: Settings > Untick unread only > Save > Scroll to find the feed I want > Copy URL > Settings > Retick unread only > Save.
2 votes -
Really need a mobile app before I'm willing to pay a subscription fee.
Really need a mobile app before I'm willing to pay a subscription fee.
4 votes -
iOS app
Make a native iOS app, not just an API. I love the look and feel of the website and would love to have that in a native app.
Even just an app that's a client for the website would be better. I just want it separate from my browser.
11 votes -
Pinned items
Pinned items remain in the feed even after using 'Mark all as read'
It is different to Starred items as you aren't forced to view your pinned items confusingly all mixed together, they remain in their feed until manually unpinned.
3 votes -
increase the line-height of blockquotes
Text within a blockquote is unpleasant to read and makes my eyeballs tingle.
1 vote -
Impose Time Limit for Suggestions
If a suggestion does not achieve, say, 10 votes in a month, it falls.
If it doesn't achieve 50 votes in, say, 3 months it falls.The rationale for this is that there are so many suggestions that few people (if any) will give them the attention they may or may not deserve.
6 votes -
Buy premium account as a gift
Well, this is it, I'd like to have an option to pay someone else's premium account as a gift to the person.
4 votes -
Small UX issue while navigating with "n" key at end of a feed
When using scrollbar you will see the "No posts below this line. Probably you have read them all." when you reach the end of the feed.
But when using "n" key to navigate from article to article, you won't never know that you reached it. Nothing to inform/warn you.
It happens to me when I'm reading a feed where the last post does not fit in the screen (it may contain images or a lot of text, that prevent you to see the bottom of the article), you won't see the "end of feed" message.
Then you will try to…
3 votes -
Fix infinite scroll preloader behaviour
You are using infinite scroll, it's great.
Which means, you load X element, then when we are close to the end of the loaded elements, you are preloading the next X elements, and so on.
But if you are using "n" key to navigate into a feed, you may face the following issue.
Let say that you want to read a feed that contains a lot of articles thats contain a lot of text or images
You may consider that few of them are interesting, then by reading the title you will know that you don't need to read the…
3 votes -
Prevent the username field from auto-completing on Android during login
When I login with Chrome on Android 4.4.2, I use my email address as my username:
Username: foobar@example.com
But, when I type the period as part of dot com, Android thinks I am writing a sentence and proceeds to autocorrect the email address, typically replacing it with something like:
Username: foo bar @ example.
Yes, a backspace immediately after the period will undo the autocorrect, but I typically am looking at the keyboard and I don't notice the mistake until it is too late.
Perhaps this link can help? textNoSuggestions?
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:inputTypeThanks for all your work on theoldreader.com. Once I…
3 votes -
Add Subscription directly to a folder
It would be nice to be able to add a new subscription directly to folders you already have.
Either via some shortcut like '###<foldername>' at the end of the URL or surface it as a dropdown in the Add Subscription UI.
3 votes
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