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  1. Provide ongoing search within subscription feeds

    I have 10-15 items in Craigslist that I continually am on alert for potential purchase/trade. Microsoft Outlook offers a static search feature w/ RSS feeds, where reader does the searching automatically daily/hourly once the search criterion defined. This would be a huge selling point for monthly subscription plans, IE: 1-20 @ $3/mo plan, etc. Thanks for the consideration!

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  2. Better interface and theme

    Hi guys,
    Are you planning a new theme and interface because I really think the actual one need some refreshment ! It has not been updated since a long time and I feel less and less confortable with it.
    You should think about updating it, feel free to inspire yourself from inoreader and feedly. I don't want the same theme as your concurrent but a theme/interface more pleasant to use :-) Hope you understand.

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  3. Send Email Open in New Tab

    The email link is wonderful with one issue. I host my own server with a Roundcube webmail interface. RoundCube allows you to integrated with the browser as an email client. When using the email button, it launches as a compose message in RoundCube. Unfortunately, it replaces the current tab in Firefox. Would it be possible to add a flag to Email configuration that would force it to not replace the current tab. I.e. Launch email in new tab. The compose message is wrapped in HTML. Email as plain text would be nice.

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  4. 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  5. I would like to be able to read Instapaper articles from within Old Reader (so I can use Spritz to read them).

    I understand that you can send articles to Instapaper (if you are a Premium member) but I would also like to be able to read Instapaper articles from within Old Reader.

    This is mainly so I can use Spritz to read them.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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!

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  8. 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.

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  9. Filters

    filters. Filters. FILTERS!! Preferably regular expressions.
    At least for the premium account.

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  10. A way to "undo" Mark All As Read.

    I've accidentally hit it too many times. I know people complained about the "are you sure?" dialogue box-- which blows my mind, since I'd LIKE an "are you sure?" pop up-- but maybe a way to ctrl-z it would solve the same problem?

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  11. 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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  12. 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.

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  13. RTL interface localization

    Interface localization for RTL languages like Persian

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  14. 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.

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  15. increase the line-height of blockquotes

    Text within a blockquote is unpleasant to read and makes my eyeballs tingle.

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  16. 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.

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  17. 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…

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  18. 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…

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  19. 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:inputType

    Thanks for all your work on theoldreader.com. Once I…

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  20. 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.

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