Feature requests
632 results found
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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:
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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.
1 vote -
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 -
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 -
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…1 vote -
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 -
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 -
3 votes
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Allow users to buy extra votes.
I like the old reader and I am willing to put my money where my mouth is when asking for new features. Let me buy extra votes so that it can go some way to funding the new features.
1 vote -
disable rss feeds temporarily
I have rss feeds for work i would like to disable when i'm home, so it would be great if we could stop the feeds temporarily
9 votes -
Make font size user-adjustable
I have somewhat poor vision, and often bump font sizes up in Chrome using the CTRL+= shortcut. Unfortunately, on The Old Reader this makes the sidebars and top navbar unnecessarily huge (http://d.pr/i/JcoK). For some reason, this also causes the j,k keyboard shortcuts to function strangely (two or three keystrokes necessary to go to the next story).
Can we have a simple preference to set the font size?
65 votes -
On mobile view : on bottom page add button or link "go top of page".
On mobile view : on bottom page add button or link "go top of page".
2 votes
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