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  1. Send subscriber count in user agent of feed crawler

    The feed fetchers/crawlers of most web-based rss readers send the number of subscribed users in the UserAgent header when fetching the feed. This allows authors to track the overall subscriber count for their blogs. Please add such statistics to your crawler's UserAgent header.

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  2. inset-player of video or audio of the feeds should be be available INSIDE the old reader

    I hope the inset-player of video or audio of the feeds could be be available INSIDE the old reader for reading.
    Thank you and have a good day!

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  3. Mark all items older than a day, or a week as read

    Keep feeds from showing time expired items.

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  4. Allow manual entry of feed names with (title unknown)

    The feed for http://alistapart.com/site/rss doesn't get a title automatically. I'd like to add one myself.

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  5. Links for Community Sites of The Old Reader on the Home page

    We should have a quick and easy way to see

    http://theoldreader.uservoice.com
    http://status.theoldreader.com/

    from the home page. I just found out about these form your Twitter account, and they are a blast!

    We need better ways to make people know about these services.

    5 votes
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  6. Make keypresses work regardless of the location of the mouse/cursor.

    I use the keyboard to scroll down the list of stories. Currently, I have to click in the white space of a story to make the keys start working. With Google Reader, keypresses worked regardless of what I had previously done with the mouse.

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  7. Interface language settings

    Can I have an option to choose interface language not based only on browsers Accept-Language header?

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  8. Improve the overall performance (mark all as read, loading a category or feed, etc)

    Possibly this is due to the current swarm of people switching from Google Reader; possibly this is already planned. But while Google Reader felt quite instant, clicking on a different feed or category, or clicking on 'Mark all as read' takes a few seconds to respond.

    The pacman (cute!) appears instantly, but it takes a while to load. I don't know if this is the implementation (is it asynchronous? do you wait for a result from the server? maybe GR updated the UI without waiting for a server result) or just the current server load.

    If this is planned or…

    3 votes
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  9. add hover text to the buttons above the feed on the right.

    It took me forever to realized the the up/down arrow was for changing the display via date (which is what I wanted, and almost put in a request for). Perhaps some hover text over the buttons could make this clearer what each button does.

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  10. fix some feeds that are not showing

    case in point: doki.co/feed
    there obviously are feeds, but the old reader won't show them :(
    it only says "there are no posts here yet"

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  11. Chrome/Facebook extensions should support https

    Chrome and Facebook plugins should allow user to set up it to work over https.

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  12. Clicking Item Marks it as Read

    Clicking an item to mark it as read seems like an obvious feature. It's the default in web browser, emails and various feed readers, such as Bloglines, Net Vibes and Sage. It is also available in Google Reader as a Grease Monkey extension (https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/140290). Adding it to the Old Reader seems like a no brainer. Thanks!

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  13. Move unsubscribe button

    Option to hide Unsubscribe button in main pane.

    If you are used to use Mark All As Read, it is easy to accidentally click the Unsubscribe button because of its close proximity.

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  14. https encryption

    can you add https/tls encryption?

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  15. Process the Unicode RTL Mark to display right-to-left content properly

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark

    Seems like everything is processed as left-to-right at the moment.

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  16. Date sorting "All items"

    I want to have the possibility to sort posts in "All items" by date.

    Now it seems to only sort by feed then date which groups all posts from every separate feed.

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    completed  ·  AdminThe Old Reader (Developer, The Old Reader) responded

    Actually, posts are supposed to be sorted by the time they are fetched. Due to some feed fetching delays we are seeing right now because of the massive influx of new users, new posts are being grouped by feed. This should stop happening as soon as we are back to normal feed fetching schedule.

  17. Make it a Chrome application

    The chrome applications are not much more than a glorified bookmark, but it's nice to have the big icon on the new tab page

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  18. Opera extension

    Similar like the chrome extension, just show how much unread items there are, and when clicked, open the old reader page

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  19. Preview text to the right of collapsed items

    It would be nice to see a short preview of an item's body to the right of the title when running in collapsed mode.

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  20. Windows Phone/Windows 8 RT app

    After the iOS or Android app, it would be nice if there is coming a app for Windows Phone and Windows 8 (RT).

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