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  1. Remove Facebook

    I added support/allowed access to my facebook account, but now I want to remove all linkage to that. All I see is the option to remove it from my profile. I want, however, to remove all traces of facebook from my reader.

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  2. follow instagram

    you should be able to enter an instagram url and follow that feed. like tumbler

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  3. make logging in easier and possible with the keyboard only (without mouse click).

    It would be great if I could store a link to theoldreader.com that already includes the email address I wanted to use for logging in. For example Google reader supported links like reader.google.com/?email=my@address.com, in which case the email address was automatically filled in and the password field focused.
    Also a similar effect could be achieved if at least there was a keyboard shortcut or direct link to the login page (eliminating the need to grab the mouse and click after entering the url).

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  4. please sort feeds by name

    holdover from google reader - please sort feeds by name, dragging them takes ages one by one. thanks!

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  5. Menu option to move a feed into another category

    When you have hundreds of feeds, drag and drop isn't really a sensible option to organise feeds, especially when you imported them from Google - Can you please have a menu option like Reader did to pop a feed into a different category?

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  6. support for mobile devices

    Hi guys!

    Can't login using my Opera Mini from my Nokia E72. Could you please fetch this bug? I'm mostly read my feeds from smartphone and don't think I'm the only one.

    thnx in advance!

    Kind regards.
    DS

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  7. Keyboard-controlled interface for subscription management

    TheOldReader is not completely designed following the WAI WCAG 2.0 and WAI-ARIA for rich internet applications. Please consider including keyboard-controlled interface, and not mouse-only, with descriptive labels, for having the subscription management also accessible to blind users: adding folders, moving feeds to folders, deleting feeds/folders, searching feeds to add. It is important do not consider it as a low-priority.

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  8. social network

    Add Feed from Facebook friends statuses (status comments), Twitter folowers tweets, G+ circles, and (using OUauth) other top social networks

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  9. When I share an article, I want to share also the comments ( even if i'm not a friend of the person who put in the comment )

    This feature permit to make new friendship with the tool by discover new commenter.

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  10. Hide who my followers are.

    Need to be able to hide who my followers are for safety reasons. Same reason that G+ got into so much trouble at first.

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  11. not mangle links in articles

    I would prefer that you not modify links in articles. I want to be able to open a link in the background, but no matter how I click a link (left, middle, right) I am only able to open it in a foreground link.

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  12. Mark item as read when opening it via keyboard shortcut

    If I open an item in a new tab/window, I don't want to also have to mark it as read. If I open it, it's obviously for reading. The keyboard shortcuts make it easy enough to mark something as unread if a user wants to open something without marking it as read, but the default should assume that "opening" == "reading".

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  13. Ensure website layout is accessible for screen readers

    Use header tags and alt text where necessary to ensure a great experience for blind computer users

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  14. Refresh button and 'r' key not working the same

    The 'r' key does not refresh my feeds. If I press 'r', the screen fades for a moment, then returns, but does not update the feed. If I then immediately click the 'Refresh' button, I get several new items in the feed. This happens in many feeds, but one example is: http://rss.briefing.com/Investor/RSS/StoryStocks.xml. Please fix

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  15. Find As You Type (type ahead find) Firefox

    If you have Find As You Type (1) turned on in Firefox some keyboard shortcuts are broken.

    I think most, if not all the g + something don't work.
    Some work and don't activate Find As You Type ex: j, k
    Some work but active Find As You Type: 1, 2

    You can try the same thing in Google Reader and their keyboard shortcuts (both single and multi-key) work without activating Find As You Type. So I believe there's a way to make a web app work with it?

    (1) http://www.mozilla.org/access/type-ahead/

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  16. Publicly share/export folders

    I am a web developer that has been using Google Reader as an RSS feed aggregator, that then provides specific aggregated feeds to display on websites. To give an example, I have aggregated about 30 different feeds providing news about the media in Greece. I then take the single, aggregated folder from Google Reader, and using a script on my website, all of the articles from that folder are displayed, in a customized format that matches the design and layout of the site.

    I'm not a professional, so some of the technical terminology and understanding may elude me, but through…

    9 votes
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  17. support feeds with broken hostnames

    Old Reader doesn't currently support feeds with technically broken hostnames like username-.tumblr.com/rss while Google Reader and several other readers do.

    I'd really love to see Old Reader as a complete replacement for Google Reader and for that I think at a minimum you need to be able to support all the same feeds.

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  18. Do not reset cursor in "show unread only"

    When current feed disappears from the menu, do not reset the cursor. Instead, jump to the next feed or avoid hiding the feed until you move off of it.

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  19. don't dock items at the top while scrolling

    When I scroll items using the j/k or shift-j/shift-k keyboard shortcuts, I find that the next item is moved all of a sudden to the top to become the first one in the list. I find this bit distracting. In Google Reader, the item used to stay where it was and simple keep moving downwards.

    It's hard to explain the actual behaviour, but the difference is immediately recognizable if one were to scroll using keyboard in both The Old Reader and Google Reader

    7 votes
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  20. Hi dear Please add the ability to display feeds in Arabic and Farsi View texts from right to left

    Hi dear
    Please add the ability to display feeds in Arabic and Farsi
    View texts from right to left

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