Feature requests
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Interface / UI speed
Seems to me that the interface could be fake-speeded up quite easily. Examples:
1) If I mark all articles in a feed as read, the interface seems to be waiting for a response from TOR's server. But that's not necessary from a user's (and usability) point of view. Just hide that feed and that feed's articles on the user's computer locally. THEN send a message to TOR's server.
2) Moving feeds seems to similarly be waiting for TOR server responses. Suggestion: Save all changes on the user's machine locally first, then collect all the changes and send them to TOR's…
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Allow folders to be placed in Subscription folder.
And allow folders and feeds to be placed in any order in subscription folder.
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Import *.opml files into a folder
At present, I click Import. I then have almost one hundred entries under Subscriptions. Could Import place its output in a folder instead? E. g., Cat Videos, instead of having one hundred cat videos that have to be placed one-by-one into a New Folder. Thanks
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when i fold an item, stop the playback if there are videos playing. otherwise, great app!!
title says it all. ;)
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Add subscription in batches
I would love to see a function which allows me to add multiple subscriptions, e.g. one for each line in a textarea field.
I know that there is an import function but I've a collection of RSS feeds in a text document which I now either have to add one at the time or convert into an OPML file and then import it, both is quite time consuming.
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Use Smaller Font in Feed Title
The feed title at the top of the right-hand pane is in a very large bold font, and does not scroll with the article. ie. it is always on the screen, and advertises what you are reading about to anyone within 20 feet.
I always liked that Google Reader's subtlety. It had the same title but in a moderate sized font and scrollable.
3 votes -
Inline install prompt for Chrome extension
The website should detect if a user has Chrome and doesn't yet have the extension/app, and prompt to install them.
Implementation guidelines: https://developers.google.com/chrome/web-store/docs/inline_installation
2 votes -
Remembering folder setting
It would be good if OldReader remembers folder setting such as which one was opened, which one was closed in previous login. Right now, it opens all folders up on login.
5 votes -
"Keep unread" checkbox
Please add a "keep unread" checkbox to each feed item. If selected, the item should be kept unread even if "Mark all as read" is used or "Scrolling through posts marks them as read" is active and the item is scrolled through.
This is a feature Google Reader unfortunately never had, but the old version of Bloglines had it and it was missed by many users when old style Bloglines was no more. It would be a great addition to The Old Reader.
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Mobile website unstable and breaks too easily
I can barely use TOR from my Android phone (4.1.2) from the Browser AND Firefox for Android 21.
After a server error or randomly when performing any action, I will be either stuck on the Home screen, or I will be logged out.
I do not experience this from Win 7 Firefox 21... well maybe rarely.
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Allow me to chose my language on http://theoldreader.com/
I hate when the system "think" that it better know what I need.
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highlight the mobile web on your website.
I'm a Google Reader refugee and I really like what I see in The Old Reader!
Many people are looking for a mobile app and don't seem to realize that the mobile web version is excellent!
I suggest you highlight this for new users as a way to satisfy those folks. Just add a shortcut button that goes to the web page and presto, no need for a native app.
Many people seem to want an app for everything, when many apps just a the browser internally.
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Search for multiple words in articles
When I search for articles with multiple words, it does an "or" search (ie: it searches for articles with any of the words, when I want to find all of the words). I've tried using boolean eg, searching for word1 AND word2 AND word3, and it does not return any results. Would be great if there was an easy way to search for all words in an article.
28 votes -
Add a style to current/active item
Unless I'm missing something, there is nothing to distinguish the current/selected item from any other unread item (the left border goes away). Something to distinguish it would be nice - or even just add an active class to that item so I can do it with my user css :)
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List view width adjustments
The current list view has 3 parts, specified as:
120px, 58%, 66pxThis mixture of % and fixed pixels corrupts the display on small screens, and wastes space on large screen.
Please remove the "4 hours ago" on the right side, and this allows for a nice: 20% (feed title) 80% (article title) layout.
This keeps all titles properly justified, and using all available space, at all screen sizes.
(This also fixes: "Wrap text in list view", and many others)
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Fix for Opera 12.15
It works very slow on my Opera 12.15 (Win XP).
1 vote -
Show read subscriptions
If I enable the option to hide read subscriptions, and I want to access that subscription to find a certain post, there is no way to select it without disabling that option.
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Sharing a collection of articles in a magazine like formate.
I need to have a feature that allow users to share a few articles in a magazine formate. I want to tag them as "Week-1 June-13" or like "Diabetes", "Childbirth". Then if my followers want they can just click on any tag and find these articles that I have tagged. This just simple tagging. I used to do it on Google Reader through exporting the feeds to Google Blogger and then share it with my subscribers (people who want me to select articles every week for them from around 150 feeds)
3 votes -
new display option: sort feeds by article count (max at top)
new display option: sort feeds by article count (max at top)
6 votes -
MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS you don't support old browsers like IE 8!!!!
I just spent all this time setting up an account and importing my Google Reader data---only to find the Old Reader is unusable because my browser is outdated. Grrrr! Very annoying! You can do better than that. I have visited other reader websites that told me up front what they did and didn't support.
4 votes
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