Feature requests
632 results found
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Provide option to make list view (even) more compact, to help with high-volume feeds.
Big feeds like Zero Hedge or Hacker News pump out hundreds of posts per day -- RSS readers with an ultracompact list view make scanning these much easier. If The Old Reader had an ultracompact option, that'd be immensely helpful (less scrolling).
1 vote -
"Mark all as read" shouldn't mark articles not yet displayed
When you hit "mark all as read" there may be new articles that haven't yet appeared in the list (i.e. will appear after a refresh of the list). Currently these pending articles are marked as read - but they shouldn't be (the user doesn't know how many there are and what they're about).
Google Reader would only mark as read articles actually in the list. This is the right behaviour.
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Move the comment button
Right now, the comment button is too close to "unshare", and it's possible to misclick on unshare by mistake.
If you could put "comment" somewhere else, maybe on the same level, to the right of unshare, it would be nice.
http://theoldreader.yuku.com/topic/73/UI-comment-and-unshare1 vote -
Bing alerts
More of an issue I haven't been able to find a solution for. It seems that when I try to grab an RSS feed from Bing News "Subscribe by RSS" and add that one subscription to The Old Reader "Add a Subscription", The Old Reader won't accept the subscription - I can't add to my subscription list at all. I'm not sure if this is a problem other folks have run into, but would love any insight/solutions.
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Size the subscription bar contents better
This might be a bug report rather than a feature request. In Firefox 20.0 or Safari 5.1.9 on a Mac or Firefox 20.0.1 on Windows, the subscription bar on the left abbreviates subscription names too much.
For example, one of my subscriptions has the title "Office of the Privacy Commissioner", but in the subscription bar, it is shown as "Office of t..." followed by about a quarter of the width as blanks.
If I shrink the text or increase the size of the window, I see more, but I still have a great big blank section on the right side…
6 votes -
The sort order date for a single feed or single group
For example, the feed from the forum I want to read from the old to the new record, something to keep the discussion within the band.
But newsfeed about space I want to read the newest entries first, and move on to the older.
Now sort mode is set for all subscriptions and not only one.3 votes -
Option to open a specific folder directly when going to the home page
I have one main folder with news which I regularly read. The other folders don't have as much priority and I skim through those when I got some extra time. The "Home" section doesn't have any value for me, I'm not even looking at it, it's the list of news items that count and is the first thing I go to.
It would be great if an option was introduced to take you to the specified folder directly as soon as you go to "theoldreader.com" and are logged in.
7 votes -
"Go to tag/subscription/friend" keyboard shortcuts
Few very useful shortcuts are still missing (compared to Google Reader). Quoting GR help:
g then u go to subscription allows you to navigate to a subscription by entering the subscription name
g then t go to tag allows you to navigate to a tag by entering the tag name
g then f go to friend allows you to navigate to a friend's shared items by entering the friend's name
12 votes -
Buttons above AND below posts, instead of just below.
Here's the idea- how about the same buttons that appear under the posts (share, like...) also appear above it? It's sure would be useful for when I'm browsing my feeds at work (or other place, where my browsing time is limitted), I see something that interests me, and would like to like it for later (so I could return to it when I have the time). As for now it requires a massive amount of scrolling if the post happens to be a long one.
6 votes -
alphabetizing
Is it possible to alphabetize feeds manually or automatically?
I noticed one can drag them but that's a lot of work ... sometimes.
Hope to hear from you,regards,
Roel
10 votes -
Allow clicking on a post without scrolling to it in List View
"Clicking a post scrolls to it" option should work both in Full View and List View.
14 votes -
Easily subscribe to eBay Search feeds.
You can easily subscribe to any eBay search by simply adding “&_rss=1” at the end of it. If you could add the option to do this automatically that would be handy!
6 votes -
Minor bug
Minor bug here, when you having the setting enabled that allows you to scroll through a post to mark it as read, on mobile view, u cannot scroll through the final post leaving you unable to mark the last post as read unless you click the "mark all as read" button
4 votes -
FInd out why the pull-down menu is corrupting the Home page?
I appreciate that as a recent Old Reader convert I am liable to make many mistakes, but I notice that for me, using Google Chrome Beta as my browser under Windows 8-64bit, I am finding the pull down menu overlays and corrupts the text at the top right of the Home screen, and from then on. I am using the native theme.
1 vote -
Maintain the location in the list the selected feeds after all the items have been read
Use shift+n a couple times to select a feed.
Use shift+o to open the feed.
Use n until you have read all the items.
Now press shift+n againEXPECTED
The sibling feed of the feed you just finished reading is selected. That is the feed that would be below the feed you just read, is selected.RESULTS
The feed at the top of the list is selected.NOTES
This is the Google reader behavior6 votes -
Fix dead feeds
Under dead feeds, there are 5 feeds which say they have been updated 9 months ago, 3 months ago, etc. However, I also have feeds which were only updated 3 years ago which are not showing up under dead feeds. Seems like this feature is not working correctly.
8 votes -
On mobile web interface, scroll to top of opened item
When I click to open a new item on the mobile safari version of the old reader, it closes the previously open item, collapsing it, and opens the new item, expanding it. Where the item's first line of text shows up, however, is completely random. When you open an article, the page should go directly to the top of that new article. The current behavior is maddening.
5 votes -
Allow share of individual items into specific shared folders
Pretty please with pizza on top? I am a power GR user, Amd run one of Writers Digest Best 101 Websites for Writers. One of my regular features is that I curate content for other writers. I do this by integrating BufferApp into Google Reader and using it to Tweet selected items. After that, I assign a specific folder to the post. I have the feeds from those folders shared into the blog sidebars, and I use those feeds to generate my weekly round-up of important posts people should read.
So, several questions, wish list items.
1) Share individual posts…
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Add website icons instead of the green tite of the feeds name
Add website icons instead of the green tite of the feeds name
2 votes -
Ad the possibility to select a default folder when opening the old Reader
Ad the possibility to select a default folder when opening the old Reader
4 votes
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