Feature requests
559 results found
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Un-bold the headline after you click on it.
In Reader, when you click on a story and read it, the headline becomes un-bolded and marked read. in TheOldReader, even after I click on a headline, it stays bolded.
116 votes -
Show when a feed was last refreshed
Some of my feeds are not geting updated (even after waiting for more than a day). It's nice to have the ability to manually refresh a feed, but I don't want to hit refresh on ALL my feeds.
So, for each of my feeds I'd like to know when was th last refresh timestamp.
44 votes -
Receive RSS feeds per email (weekly, daily...)
Google reader let the opportunity to subscribe to email alerts. Adding the features would be a blast : receiving all the news directly in one's inbox is a huge comfort.
22 votes -
middle clicking a collapsed item's title to open the source link
Some of my feeds have items when clicked on only show a title and no or limited content. It would be great if there was an option to middle click on collapsed items and have them act as a link so that it may be viewed in a new tab. This would save a whole step of having to uncollapse it and click on the title and would allow quick opening of multiple items that are like this.
19 votes -
Save to Pinboard.in
Ideally, you would be able to just save the post and mark it for reading later both are avilable via their API.
17 votes -
Add option for image previews in list mode / tile mode
One possible aesthetic improvement would be to display a scaled down image from each post in a slightly more spread-out version of the list view. Or better yet (imo) add an additional option for a tile / mosaic mode, similar to some other much-touted Google Reader alternatives. You might be deliberately avoiding the tile design bandwagon, but I at least think images help greatly in making a long line of posts more pleasant to navigate and go through.
6 votes -
Make sure you have a business model which is profitable and if that includes advertising, so be it.
None of us want a repeat of what we have gone through with the Google Reader fiasco this past week. Google failed to capitalize on their system by not bothering to directly generate revenue from what they were doing. I am not convinced you can exist without a profitable business model so if that means you need to incorporate advertising on your pages, please do so. Advertising could certainly and easily be tuned to the type of feeds we are using so I see the potential as enormous. Given your now massive user base, the potential for income for you…
8 votes -
Add the possibility to manage Twitter feeds too
I just noticed my twitter feeds didn't import, which is a pity. I'm liking The Old Reader as alternative for when the Google one dies...except for that. I like to follow some public people that way because I can easily see their replies to others. I know Twitter doesn't have the RSS button anymore, but feeds are still working (although the url that must be used changed a while ago).
18 votes -
Number of unread articles in favicon.
I like my feed-reader pinned, and of course faviconised.
46 votes -
folder refresh button
would be great a folder refresh button, like the one used to refresh single feeds
222 votes -
Add different viewing/formatting panels.
Introduce view options that give say a txt only options or one that is formatted for news feeds (e.g. removes websites advertising and menus, etc), one that displays the original page in the original formatting, etc
3 votes -
Close current item when clicking its title (and toggle visibility with <ENTER>)
When I read posts (in Google Reader) I sometimes "zoom" out by closing the one post I'm currently on. I'd like to have this feature in theoldreader as well. Thanks!
2 votes -
Home more like Google Reader
Google reader's Home folder shows only the latest post from each feed and not all of them (which is handy for feeds that have several new posts a day) and gives priority to feeds I read a lot. That's one of the features I used the most on Google reader and it will be really nice to have it.
23 votes -
Disable custom scrollbars
I prefer the default system scrollbars in Firefox to the floating green scrollbar in TOR, especially since it is not displayed always and lacks the up and down arrows. I would disable this in my browser settings if I could, but I think the site would function better without the current, custom scrollbars.
7 votes -
Help for people overwhelmed by to many articles at once
I use the "All Items" screen to read articles, and while it works, I get overwhelmed easy when I have hundred of articles to look thru and see which I want to read or not. When in list view where you only see the title of the article can you added a option to see only like 10 articles at a time and when you click next to the next group the last 10 are marked as read. Maybe even a option to mark articles into a holding area, so after I quickly skim thru several hundred articles, I can…
1 vote -
Configure set focus on comment box when shared
I don't usually like put comments in my shares. It would be great if the focus in the comment box is configurable. So i can share and continue pressing 'j' to read more articles.
6 votes -
Allow us to connect multiple FB/Google accounts
I'd like to be able to connect (for example) both my work Google account and my home Google account.
20 votes -
Support Media RSS feeds with multiple file enclosures such as Blip.TV and other video podcasts.
Several sites have Media RSS feeds with multiple file enclosures -- for instance the same video in several different formats. Right now, only a single file is shown. Adding support for Media RSS feeds would make TheOldReader a lot more useful for folks who subscribe to video podcasts and other media-rich feeds.
4 votes -
Pause (or turn off) feed updates
I'd like to be able to pause (or turn off) the updating of a feed. I have a number of job search feeds that pipe in search results from Monster, Careerbuilder, etc. into TOR. This took a long time to set up and I don't want to lose it, but I have a job now so I don't need the feeds to update and clutter up my list of feeds. In essence, I would keep track of the feed even if I don't want the content from it right now. This would also be to your benefit by reducing the…
24 votes -
Don't hide scroll bars
On a PC without a fancy scroll function it is rather hard to scroll up and down the subscription list. You need to move the mouse to where you think the scroll bar is and then look up and down the screen for a small blob of green. Ideally the scroll bar should not be hidden no matter where the pointer is, and the rest of the bar to be a slightly different colour to the background. As we all know just because Google have started doing it does not make it right.
165 votes
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