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  1. "Only my items"

    Basically, it should be "All items" without "Following".

    5 votes
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  2. Open post page in frame

    Open the target article in frame within Ye Olde Reader or at least add the button that will directly take me to the article (that shows on the right of each entry in Google Reader).

    Basically, a lot of the sites I follow doesn't include the whole article in the feed, with a link to continue reading. So please add the button to take me directly to the article as Google Reader has done or load the feed target directly in a frame (loading it after clicking on it's entry).

    27 votes
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  3. Take DPI into consideration before collapsing content below sidebar

    On a Nexus 7 the content is shown beneath the list of feeds when held in portrait mode despite a horizontal resolution of 800px.

    On a desktop with a regular monitor, no collapsing occurs when resizing the browser window to 800px wide.

    I am assuming this is due to chrome reporting a lower horizontal resolution to your css media queries due to the higher display density. I have observed that your stylesheets already take dpi into account for your logo, so I am merely suggesting that you do the same for your layout.

    3 votes
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  4. The Old Reader's public feed items should have the <source> attribute

    The public feeds (.rss) should have the <source> attribute (well, for better attributing, e.g. when using these links to post on Twitter, Facebook, whatever.

    Like this:

    <source tor:stream-id="feed/http://lifehacker.com/index.xml">
    <id>
    tag:theoldreader.com,2013:reader/feed/http://lifehacker.com/index.xml
    </id>
    <title type="html">Lifehacker</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://lifehacker.com" type="text/html"/>
    </source>

    Thanks for your consideration :)

    4 votes
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  5. keyboard navigation doesn't work as I'd expect

    j and k, rather than going to the post before or after the currently expanded post, go to the post before or after the post that is currently at the top of the page.

    When viewing posts in list form, I expect navigation to work in relation to the currently expanded post. As it is, if I scroll the page at all, j and k work in a suprising and not totally predictable way.

    26 votes
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  6. Please add "skip to the next post" button at the top of every item in mobile interface

    Just like google reader has. While using desktop version, a "n" shortcut is handy for that but you can't use it on mobile unfortunately. But it is even more important to be able to jump to another item since scrolling is so much slower.

    5 votes
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  7. Integration with Flipboard for iOS

    Flipboard is the best feed reading app for iOS, which currently syncs with Google Reader (including marking posts as read, etc) - please could you do a deal with them to make theoldreader work too?

    52 votes
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  8. Provide a different color theme option (dislike the green)

    I really don't like the current green color theme. I'm sure some people like it, but it bugs me. Any chance of introducing another color theme?

    368 votes
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  9. Per-feed and per-folder display settings

    Some of the settings (view unread vs. view all, feed display order, etc.) appear inconsistent in whether they apply to ALL feeds (i.e. they are global settings) or just the currently active feed. For example, there are certain blogs where I would like to have the older posts display first, so I can read it sequentially if I miss a post or two, but other blogs where I would like the NEWER posts to display first. Sort order appears to be a global setting, though, so I have to switch back and forth each time I change which blog I'm…

    273 votes
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  10. uncomment apple-mobile-web-app-capable

    Currently you've commented
    <!--<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="default" />-->
    in the source. I bet there's a god reason for it, but still, I'd like it to be uncommented ;)

    1 vote
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  11. The space bar should make you go to the next feed after the last article within a feed.

    Just like in Google Reader

    368 votes
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  12. Move Pocket button to top of post

    The Pocket button should go at the top of a post. I know almost immediately whether something is interesting but too long to read currently; I know before scrolling down the whole post (which is always going to be long). And I dislike scrolling so much because I'm afraid I might scroll right into the next post and mark things read by accident.

    49 votes
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  13. Sort by Most Relevant Posts

    Sort posts by the most relevant, according to the past activity (likes, shares, likes of friends), just like "Sort by Magic" feature in Google Reader (that is broken and do not work anymore).

    See: http://www.gtricks.com/google-reader-tricks/what-is-sort-by-magic-in-google-reader/

    68 votes
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  14. Create a "current post" indicator

    Google Reader uses a [blue] highlight on the left border of a post to indicate which one is the current, that will receive all the actions from keyboard shortcuts (un/like, un/share, mark as un/read, ...)

    Currently, The Ol' Reader uses instead a [green] highlight on the left border to indicate if the post is marked as un/read and, as far as I can tell, considers the top-most (partially or completely) visible post as the current one. This happens even if the user is using "list" mode and any other post, that is not the first, is the one actually expanded…

    15 votes
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  15. allow embeds in comments

    you know, in case I want to reply to a post with a reaction gif or a youtube video or something

    19 votes
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  16. eliminate redundancies between shares and reshares

    I feel like I read the same shared article every time it's re-shared, which fills my following folder with unwanted redundancy. I only want to read something once, unless it has received new comments. Can an item have an original sharer and a list of resharers (without violating people's privacy concerns, obvs)

    59 votes
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  17. Fullscreen viewing

    Just like Google reader, allow for fullscreen viewing of the content without any other distractions by toggling the [F] key.

    458 votes
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  18. Your Reader Trends

    Google Reader has an useful feature which shows not only reader's trends but their reading trends/progress.

    www.google.com/reader/view/#trends-page

    64 votes
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  19. Limited text width to improve readability

    Google Reader uses a max width for entry text, presumably to improve readability. This makes it easier to read posts, as the eye does not need to move across as much of the screen to get to the next line. Essentially it makes the text width similar to a novel.

    .entry .entry-body, .entry .entry-title {
    max-width: 650px;
    }

    69 votes
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  20. Send to Instapaper

    156 votes
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