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  1. Implement activitypub to allow people from the fediverse to follow my shares

    With ActivityPub protocol being accepted as a W3C standard, it would be a good idea to have it in the old reader.
    ActivityPub is implemented in a range of softwares like Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube, Funkwhale, Misskey and Plume to name a few. More implementations are coming and it means friends on Mastodon or any of those softwares could follow my profile in the old reader for instance.

    There's some explanations on implementation details over here :
    https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
    And here :
    https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/how-to-make-friends-and-verify-requests/

    And the w3c specs are here:

    https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

    It would be very nice to have more friends being able to…

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  2. add a scoll helper to the page end

    So that merely scrolling all the way to the bottom marks also the last mrssage as read, even if it consumes less than the screen jight.

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  3. Add AI-powered ranking of articles

    Do you subscribe to too many feeds or too fast ones? Both? Me too. That's why I wrote a machine learning-based ranking service (https://github.com/piccolbo/rightload). But it needs to be integrated with a reader. It would also be more powerful the more people use it.

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  4. MIT Technology Review en español partnership

    We are the Spanish edition MIT Technology Review and we would like to be one of your The Old Reader picks for Spanish users. MIT Technology Review is the oldest magazine about technology in the world. We publish about three contents every day about artificial intelligence, health, quantum computers, smart cars, renewable energies and other interesting topics.

    We have an optimized feed you can use: https://www.technologyreview.es/social.xml

    If you need anything else, ask us and we will be pleased to help you.

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  5. Buy yourself something nice.:)

    You are a hard worker and you are super cool and I appreciate your value and wouldnt be who I am today without said value.:) Love, Me
    P.s. - This Symbol reminds me of you and its very convienantly available immediatly. I love being convienced in such exponentiating fashion.
    Heres hoping such is often circumstanced for the = et al.

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  6. PROVE YOU ARE A ROBOT

    IF YOU ARE A ROBOT THEN I AM THE QUEEN OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER a.i.©

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  7. search by article's url

    I want to mark (star, like) article I read in my (amazon kindle) reader
    I have title and url, but (in case of my favorite server) they're quite often changing article titles, so in case when in tor is article not found I must open its web page (url), copy (part of its) title and search again = being able to search for url directly in tor it will be easier for me

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  8. Widget to display a list of feeds I'm subscribed to

    I've searched but can't see this suggested elsewhere; apologies if this is a duplicate.

    Google Reader used to have a widget that you could use in, say wordpress, to provide a list of the feeds/blogs you were following, which could be done at a folder level.

    The reason why I'd like this functionality is because I follow a number of IT-related blogs that I'd like to list on my own blog. Whilst I have just hardcoded it, it would be very nice if it could be dynamic and pick up new blogs that I add over in TOR automatically.

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  9. can feeds refreshed automatically after 1 min

    can feeds refreshed automatically after 1 min

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  10. Let me find my contacts via Twitter, instead of just FB or Google.

    Simply because most other services let you use Twitter contacts, and I'm sure I have more followers than FB friends using the service.

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  11. Be compatible with hint-mode by making all clickable interfaces anchor tags

    tl;dr: Make <div class="pull-left list-header no-left-label">...</div> into an <a> tag.

    In keyboard-focused browser interfaces, such as

    • Vimperator
    • cVim
    • vimFx
    • Vimium
    • qutebrowser

    one can highlight and select links easily without the mouse. Typically, one presses 'f' (follow link) and all the links currently visible get little yellow boxes next to them. Press the keys in the box and you follow the link.

    Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKyUQZBZRK8

    Links are found by selecting all the 'a' elements on the page. Link hinting typically cannot detect if an arbitrary element has had an onClick event handler added due to browser security features.

    To support link hinting,…

    3 votes
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  12. integrate RSVP - rapid serial visual presentation - into your product

    A number of apps using RSVP to increase reading speed for screens are available, integrating one or more with the old reader would improve its functionality

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  13. A decent font that can be read in BLACK

    The new font sucks. It is unreadable.

    4 votes
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  14. keep the link to What's Trending without having to register

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  15. Search only in unread posts

    Search only in unread posts:
    I want a checkbox "Search only in unread posts" next to the search button.
    I often need a search which only searches in my unread posts.

    Thanks, Jan

    3 votes
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  16. Fix feed

    I have 419 active YouTube subscriptions. Why I check YouTube daily for New vids some of the subscribers and videos are not even being shown in the feed. I got this account to show all YouTube vids because YouTube won't. And now I don't even know what's right

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  17. Support Microsoft Surface in your App for windows mobile

    The Old Reader web version doesn't display properly in chrome for this platform, the preview window clips the right margin on any story longer than a line.

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  18. UWP Windows 10 app

    please make an official Windows 10 UWP app. The other 3rd party apps appear not to be under further development...

    3 votes
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  19. "Sort by popularity" and/or relevance

    Going through a feed you haven't read for a few days can be painful, as hundreds or even thousands of posts may have piled up in the meantime.

    Today, your options are going through everything or just marking it read and restarting.

    I want a middle way, where you can sort the feed by popularity (# of starred, # of people who've clicked through, I'm sure you have a lot of metrics that can be combined to form 'popularity' ).

    That way, you'll hopefully get more of the best posts you've missed in easy reach, and when you feel you've…

    3 votes
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  20. Enable a "View starred only" Filter Option for Each Feed

    The user shall be able to filter a view to a single feed by starred items only.

    [1] A "View starred" button will be displayed to the right of the current "Refresh" and "Mark all as read" buttons while the user is viewing the feed. [see mockup: https://goo.gl/jAtqKY]

    [2] When the user selects the "View starred" button, the displayed items in the feed will only be the items the user has starred. In addition, the text in the "Viewed starred" button will change to read, "Unview starred".

    [3] When the "View starred" filter is active, the individual items displayed…

    6 votes
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