Feature requests
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Make posts from X days as read
Make new button next to button Make all as read. It button would make post older than X days read, where X is number of days defined by user or predefined (1, 3 and 5 days)
10 votesThis is now available as 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or 1 year.
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add a keyboard shortcut for closing the current item
I like the new keyboard shortcuts (as of 1 May) but you appear to be missing one for closing or collapsing the item that is currently being read. In Google Reader it's 'o'. Since you use that for opening the post in a new tab, you might use 'x' which would match up nicely with Shift+x (collapse selected folder).
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Show number of unreading items in title before word "The Old Reader"
Now numbers of unreading messages showing in title after words "The Old Reader (xxx)".
When many tabs open in brouser this numbers was hided.
Please move number of unread message in first position, before words "The Old Reader" in brouser.
Thank you for you project!1 vote -
Rename a feed
I would like to be able to rename feeds to something other than the title they serve in the feed, which is not always meaningful or sufficiently identifying.
1 voteDouble-click on feed title to rename it.
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Make it possible to hide the subscription sidebar
In Google Reader the "u" key toggles subscription list display, and it remembers the setting, so that next time I open it the sidebar is hidden. I only look at the subscription list when I am managing my subscriptions, which is rarely. During normal reading it is completely uninteresting.
30 votesWe have added “Toggle sidebar” bookmarklet that should be helpful for some of you.
Please vote for fullscreen option.
See bookmarklets list here: http://theoldreader.com/pages/apps -
include user's notes in rss stream of shared items
self-explanatory, i think. (this would allow users, for example, to build a microblog/annotated link-dump directly from the old reader.)
there is a similar, but more complex request here:
http://theoldreader.uservoice.com/forums/187017-feature-requests/suggestions/3746947-let-the-profile-rss-feed-show-initial-shared-comme16 votesDone. There is “tor:note” tag containing user’s note in plain text.
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Add an "always start in folder ..." option
As a user who checks feeds at work, I want to see only my tech feeds when I open my reader so that I don't have to select the tech folder each time
1 voteNothing prevents you from going to http://theoldreader.com/folders/xxxxxx directly.
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"Mark All As Read" Keystroke
It would be nice to have a keystroke for "Mark All As Read" for keyboard heavy users.
10 votesShift+a.
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No focus on content area
Open new tab, go to theoldreader, click one of the feeds.
After that pressing Up/Down arrows on keybord will scroll the feeds list, not the feed content, you need to click in content area to focus it.
I know about J and K hotkeys, but arrows are kind of native thing for navigation.
BTW Google Reader somehow does the focus of content area :)7 votes -
Show share timestamp along with item timestamp
Basically show in the following section the timestamp marking when the item was shared, not only the item's original timestamp
1 voteMove your mouse pointer over the timestamp to see original post date.
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allow marking of items as unread
in case an item is accidentally marked as read and you want to undo that
1 voteEvery post has a ‘Mark as unread’ button.
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Full text search
allow me to search the full text of the posts. currently search only searches the text of the post's titles, which i usually don't recall. if i remember a random detail that caught my interest, and want to find the post based on that, it should be doable. google reader functions this way, and it would never have occurred to me that the old reader would only search titles. despite loving the old reader overall, this single shortcoming could really make or break my experience.
92 votesThis is now available as a premium feature
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1 vote
We won’t, as soon as we can afford paying for the servers.
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Create a user forum
If we had a user forum, knowledgeable users could answer questions from n00bs like me, and save you some time.
3 votesPlease see link here: http://theoldreader.com/pages/community
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Adding feeds using GET
I mean ability to add feeds by link like this: http://theoldreader.com/feeds/add?url=%s
Then users will be able to use, for example, Chrome extensions for RSS subscriptions.3 votesThis is covered by ‘Tips & Tricks’ section on the main page.
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load icon fonts over https when serving over https
Currently, fonts for icons are apparently loaded from http://s.theoldreader.com even when using https. If one's browser is configured to block mixed active content, this may cause icons not to render (even while letting, e.g., external images in feeds will work fine). For example, setting the security.mixedcontent.blockactivecontent hidden pref in Firefox (to be default in Firefox 23 -- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=834836) will break icons.
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make the timestamps on the posts say when was it posted and not how long ago
I find it rather more useful to see when was the post created, posted or fetched instead of looking at how long ago was that. It is easier to read posts starting at a certain hour o time and not having to count back the hours. Thank you
2 votesYou can now hover the post to see exact timestamp.
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don't mark newer items as read when reading an older item
Say you open a category and there are 10 new, unread items. When you click the 5th item, it opens and you can read it. But now items 1-4 are also marked as read (no green bar anymore), while the items 6-10 are left unread.
This is confusing and unlogical, especially when you read chronologically (older items first, moving your way up).
3 votesPlease turn off ‘scroll to mark as read’ option in settings.
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can you make a "follow gadet" to add to the blogs? (like a google follow gadget)
can you make a "follow gadet" to add to the blogs? (like a google follow gadget)
1 voteWe are integrated with https://www.subtome.com/
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Bad handling of xml:base on entry
All the links and images in Tim's blog at http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom are broken when viewing an entry in The Old Reader. I'm guess the reader doesn't handle the xml:base attribute on feed and/or entry elements correctly. Please fix!
6 votesThis has been fixed.
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