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  1. 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.

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  2. 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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  3. Add website icons instead of the green tite of the feeds name

    Add website icons instead of the green tite of the feeds name

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  4. 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

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  5. Embedded Audio

    First off, I love The Old Reader. I was a Google Reader user and--of all the possible replacements--The Old Reader is my favorite. My only hesitation is that it seems to be stripping content from some of my feeds.

    As an example, the feed below should have an AAC file embeded in each post:

    http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/imix/imixid=646113515/sf=143441/xml?v0=9984

    The feed shows up in The Old Reader fine--albeit without the AAC files. If you enter the same RSS feed into Google Reader or Feedly, the AAC files show up fine.

    Do you know why this is? Can you make it so that the files…

    9 votes
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  6. Fixed sidebar width

    The sidebar, with the list of subscriptions, should remain at a fixed width (as in google reader), and not change width when the browser changes width.

    If you have your browser windows wide, the sidebar gets too wide, and it's just wasted space, that could be used for the posts instead.

    3 votes
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  7. Requesting that all keyboard shortcuts be accessible on one side of the keyboard.

    I didn't realize that I used this on Google's reader, but all the shortcuts I use are on the right hand portion of the keyboard. Thus, you don't have to be perched over your keyboard when browsing the reader. Can I request that all shortcuts be executable with only one hand? Currently, I'm missing having the toggle-view shortcut, which is mapped to 'x' instead of Google's 'o'.

    Thanks for the awesome free web app!

    7 votes
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  8. deliver GOOGLE ALERTS to the old reader

    please show how to add a new GOOGLE ALERThttp://www.google.com/alerts to the old reader instead of the google reader or email

    11 votes
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  9. Ability to Star (or Mark) items while still collapsed

    I have to open a post to mark it (using key 'l'). I would like a way to mark it for later reading while just reading the headline while the list is collapsed.

    6 votes
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  10. Package your app as a Firefox OS app

    And releases it in the Firefox OS marketplace - currently it lacks a good feed reader and since you are already web based it should be pretty easy to get an app of the ground using some responsive designing and then you can iterate on it from there.

    6 votes
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  11. Google reader + IFTTT

    This was a big deal for a lot of users. I want to automate an action off the back of a The Old Reader RSS update (or even tag update). Will this ever be possible or will I need another alternative to Google reader?

    1 vote
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  12. Duplicate posts in trending section

    Please guys, would it be possible to get rid of duplicate posts in trending section? I find it a bit annoying. Thank you!

    7 votes
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  13. Opt to limit number of saved items below standard 1,000.

    An option to change the number of maximum saved items to specific or pre-determined values such as 200, 500, 750. Saves you space and gives the user the option to cut down on out-dated news. Personally I have no need or desire to read through 1,000 old articles and only really care for the more recent data.

    3 votes
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  14. Limits on age and number of feeds

    Allow setting limits on how old a feed can be to be shown and the maximum number of feeds to be shown.

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  15. Allow all/more likes on a post to be visible

    If I recall correctly, Google Reader used to have the "and ## others liked this" string as a clickable object to list out all of the people who liked a post. If that's not feasible (due to the possibility of loading 1000 names), maybe allow one click to load up to some acceptable number of names, and subtract that number from the "undisplayed likes" count.

    Mainly, I just want to be able to see the people who liked a post that are either following me or that I'm following.

    3 votes
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  16. Allow retweeted links to be clickable in Twitter subscriptions

    Currently if you follow Twitter feeds links appear as text and are not clickable. (:

    3 votes
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  17. up arrow behaviour

    Strange behaviour of up and down arrow makes mixed arrow/scrollwheel navigation a bit confusing.

    The up arrow seems to not move to the "next unopened item" in the list, but to the "first item in the list that is visible in the current viewable area".

    Let's say I am scrolling a long list of items: some are visible on screen, some titles are up (outside of the viewable list), some are down: if I open a post, its title wil be aligned to the top of viewable area.
    If then I scroll the page a bit up, revealing headlines of…

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  18. make windows phone browsers work

    Currently when going to the old reader on windows phone you get an exact look like using a desktop browser. More specifically: feed list on the left and on the right the stories. However if you have a long list of feeds in your menu you can't scroll all the way down so it's not usable.

    On Android you get it nicely under each other (which isn't optimized but at least works).

    I guess recognizing mobile IE and giving it the same rendering as Chrome on Android should do the trick.

    Thanks,

    Jorn

    34 votes
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  19. Show subscriber count and posts per week

    One nice feature of Google Reader is you can tell how popular a feed is (or whether you've clicked the wrong one by accident) based on subscriber count. Also, if you show posts per week, I know I won't subscribe to one that inundates me with articles. Thanks.

    8 votes
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