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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Send to Instapaper

    156 votes
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  6. Send to Tumblr

    !

    10 votes
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  7. Tags On The Old Reader

    Tags: General
    Being able to tag items from feeds to separate them into folders for quick reference in the future (ie: watch, listen, read, etc...)

    549 votes
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  8. Leave comment view visible

    Comment view disappears when there are no new comments. I'd like to leave it visible so I can refer back to it.

    65 votes
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  9. Allow likes for comments

    I have funny friends. I want to be able to give their comments likes.

    84 votes
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  10. Refresh all feeds

    There should be a "Refresh all feeds" button.

    197 votes
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    AdminThe Old Reader (Developer, The Old Reader) responded

    “Refresh all feeds” button can only work in a reasonable amount of time for users that have a very small number of feeds (10-15 at most). An additional requirement will be for RSS feeds that are refreshed to serve their XML files very quickly.

    Please keep in mind that voting for this feature, you automatically vote for imposing a very low limit of feed count per user.

  11. IFTTT Integration

    336 votes
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  12. Commented: scroll to comments

    Clicking on the Commented folder should scroll to the first post's comments

    2 votes
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  13. Readability integration

    Similarly to current Pocket integration.

    39 votes
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  14. Mute post

    "Mute" button should allow user to avoid getting any comment notifications for a specific post.

    8 votes
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  15. Editing comments

    Users should be able to edit a comment during 2 minutes after posting it.

    9 votes
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  16. Unload posts that have been scrolled out

    It looks like google reader unloads posts that the user have scrolled out. This helps to maintain low memory usage and stops any running audio/video embeds. We should try to do this as well.

    115 votes
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  17. Pocket: tagging

    After sending the post to Pocket we should present user a separate form that will allow him/her to enter pocket tags. We could also store a cached list of tags and show input suggestions, however this will be quite cumbersome, because the only way to get the list of all tags is to fetch all user items.

    14 votes
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  18. Different colors for folders/feeds

    Users might want to choose different colors for their folders and feeds.

    84 votes
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  19. Counter of unread posts

    Feed title should contain a counter of unread posts, probably somewhere near the "Mark all as read" button.

    22 votes
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  20. Variable sidebar width

    Users should be able to resize sidebar using drag&drop.

    163 votes
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