Feature requests
632 results found
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Allow sorting of posts by title (invaluable for web forum topic feeds)
I follow a lot of web forum topics via RSS, as it's so much easier than visiting each website every day to see what replies have been posted to each topic.
It's much easier to read these feeds if I can sort the posts in the same way that emails would show up in my inbox -- namely, the original topic post first, followed by replies. NetNewsWire v3 is the only app I have that currently allows me to do this (screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1802478/nnw-forum-feeds.png), but I'd love to move away from it to a service like yours that would that…
7 votes -
Collapse article you're not interested ASAP wherever you want, even in the middle of an article
When you're in the middle of article, and you show no interests on it. You want to collapse the article, back to the list view to overall rest of article, but when you try to click top-middle position to collapse it, you realize you've to scroll page up, so you can collapse it with its title. Or you've to scroll page down, expand next title and collapse it again to have an overall view. And these useless scroll up/down, expand/collapse is really crazy.
3 votes -
Fix the bug that jumps to the top sometimes when hitting Shift+Space.
Scenario: Reading through feeds, hitting j and k to go through them, sometimes I start reading one instead of hitting f or v, to do so, I usually press space to drop down. This works fine. When I want to go back up one section I press Shift+Space. This sometimes works, and other times it will bring me up, not to the top of the article, but to the top of the whole feed list.
This happens in Chrome on Mac while reading All Items. Its just an annoyance, but would love to see it fixed.
1 vote -
Mark Articles older than X as read
Basically this is identical to what Google Reader had. It had options like 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, etc, it will take all those articles older than the specified period and mark them as unread, but also marks the articles newer than that period as unread.
Great for reversing accidental "Mark all as read".
29 votes -
Active article (for j/k keys) should be independent of scrolling
Let's say there are 10 articles on display in list view.
I click on 5 and read it.
I scroll up to view the headlines of all the articles.
I press 'j' to move to the next article (the 6th article).
The Old Reader goes to article 3, because I scrolled up.
Please make this like Google Reader, where 'next' means 'next'.
9 votes -
"Mark all as read" shouldn't mark articles I've just marked as unread
I imported my feeds list from Google Reader some time before it closed and continued to read feeds there. And now I switched to The Old Reader, so now I have a lot of "unread" articles. So I'm opening feed by feed and list articles until I reach seen items. I've marked some of them as unread to read them some time later because I've seen them in GReader but also didn't come to actually read them. And once I've reached items I've read in GReader I clicked Mark all as read because there left 100+ items below. But It…
2 votes -
Make a mobile view compatible with Opera Mini.
As Opera Mini doesn't support javascript properly, it's horrible to use The Old Reader on an older phone. It's not even possible to open a feed item.
7 votes -
Make the "Mark as read" button look different if the post is marked read
Currently, to tell whether a post is read or unread, one needs to read the text of the button to find the "un" inserted. This can also lead to not noticing when you've accidentally marked an item as read (by clicking the text).
My suggestion is to make the button change color, or change the checkbox to an empty checkbox, or change the background of the feed item (preferable, unless the click text to mark read is made optional), so it's easier to tell whether the item is marked read.
1 vote -
Make the Titles a different color than the article text
Just so it's easier to see where a post ends when you're scrolling past it. I believe the ones in Google Reader were blue. You could do green!
2 votes -
Don't scroll whole list on folder selection
Select a folder in the middle and then use Shift+J/K to select another. All list scrolled. And hard to find out the target after list scrolled.
Scrolling whole list is dizzy. Just move the color bar beside the folder name and scroll list only when article is outside the window.
1 vote -
"Following" should show as a folder in the API
I am using gReader, and unless it's a failure of their implementation (which is possible), there isn't a way to view anything from people I'm following. I should be able to access each of the people I'm following as separate feeds under a "Following" folder (or "tag" as gReader calls them).
3 votes -
New themes!
I suggest you to put on some new good-looking themes, to make the site more pleasant and readable, like feedly! That's what Google Reader lacked of too...
And also, please shrink the subscriptions bar on the left, it's way too big.
Thanks!18 votes -
speed up the UI when rearranging feeds
The UI hangs when I am rearranding a feed (e.g. dragging and dropping a feed into a folder or between folders). I have to keep the mouse pressed until it shows signs of moving.
2 votes -
Fix the bug with the space bar
After I select a feed, pressing the space bar opens the first unread, and then the next, and so on. This also leads to the open folder on the left panel to close.
1 vote -
Add an option to fit images to width on a feed-by-feed basis.
Add an option to fit images to width on a feed-by-feed basis.
This would avoid the need to either squint at tiny images (e.g. comics) or use an excessive page zoom (which may interfere with other feeds).
3 votes -
Add a setting for 24h clock
I'm not American, so I want the timestmaps to display e.g. 17:34, not 5:34 PM.
5 votes -
collasp and expand for left side bar a la google reader
collapse and expand for left side bar a la google reader
7 votes -
17 votes
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do not remember me (my email and password) automatically when I register, but rather offer it as an option (“Keep me signed in” checkbox).
I’m a news junky and in order for me not to get constantly distracted by checking news, my wife lets me to check the reader at night, entering with her password, which I don’t know (we have only one computer). This is impossible with the current TOR because it remembers me/her instantly, and whenever I enter theoldreader.com, I am immediately led to my account with all the subscriptions.
3 votes -
Improve Multilingual Search
Currently searching functionality in Japanese does not work properly.
For example, Search with the keyword '東京'(Tokyo), the search result shows the feeds which contain any of '東' or '京'.
Please improve this functionality to get correct search result.
1 vote
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