Skip to content

Feature requests

← Customer Feedback for The Old Reader

I suggest you ...

You've used all your votes and won't be able to post a new idea, but you can still search and comment on existing ideas.

There are two ways to get more votes:

  • When an admin closes an idea you've voted on, you'll get your votes back from that idea.
  • You can remove your votes from an open idea you support.
  • To see ideas you have already voted on, select the "My feedback" filter and select "My open ideas".
(thinking…)

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

If a similar idea already exists, you can support and comment on it.

If it doesn't exist, you can post your idea so others can support it.

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

173 results found

  1. allow turning off "scrolling past item marks it read" as an option

    I don't find the auto-marked-"read" behavior useful (though I know others do). It'd be nice to be able to turn this off.

    106 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    completed  ·  14 comments  ·  Admin →

  2. 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 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    3 comments  ·  Admin →

  3. bookmarklet to go to next item in a folder

    Google Reader has a bookmarklet that goes to the next item in a feed or folder. It looks like this:

    http://www.google.com/reader/next?go=nextauto&t=4586323219818568841&label=comics

    91 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    27 comments  ·  Admin →

  4. 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.

    88 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    9 comments  ·  Admin →

  5. Block users from following or commenting

    As an alternative to private accounts, allow users to share publicly but block others from following or commenting on their items.

    87 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    5 comments  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminThe Old Reader (Developer, The Old Reader) responded

    This has now been released. If you go to your settings, you can choose to protect your shared items. If selected, you must approve all new follow requests, and your shared items will not be available to anyone except your followers.

    If you “like” a post, your name may still appear on the post for all users.

    Additionally, any existing followers can be removed by going to your followers page.

  6. Make the 'Mark All As Read' confirmation prompt optional

    Suddenly clicking Mark All As Read pops up an extra unnecessary confirmation box.

    It would be nice to be able to turn that off, as it is annoying.

    87 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    completed  ·  19 comments  ·  Admin →

  7. Sending to evernote posts that I like

    At this moment I do a think that is really great. I have a trigger on ifttt that send to Evernote each post that I like on GReader, that means that I my evernote account I have a folder that has inside all the posts that I liked, organized by the feed title. It's easy to do, maybe just adding RSS to the "Love" section, or integrating itself in The old reader (maybe better).

    86 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    6 comments  ·  Admin →

  8. Within a folder, we should be able to chronologically without having to see all of the posts from one feed.

    Unless I am missing the setting, it seems that posts are arranged by feed, then chronologically. In Google Reader, we are able to see posts chronologically, even if it means not showing all of the posts from one feed back to back (i.e. If Feed A has a post a noon and then 2:30, and Feed B has a post a 1:00, I would like to See The post from Feed A, Then Feed B, Then Feed A. It currently Shows the two posts from Feed A, then Post from Feed B)

    78 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    3 comments  ·  Admin →

  9. give me a way to donate $$$ to you

    money money money

    71 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    7 comments  ·  Admin →

  10. Add a link to a list of all dead feeds

    The list of dead feeds on the home page is super handy! I'd love to see a list of all my dead feeds.

    69 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    9 comments  ·  Admin →

  11. Collapse folders as the default view

    If you have many folders, it can be very tedious to browse with all of them expanded

    63 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    15 comments  ·  Admin →

  12. Subscriptions: mass operations

    A separate page should allow users to select multiple feeds and unsubscribe from them or move them to another folder.

    61 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    4 comments  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminThe Old Reader (Developer, The Old Reader) responded

    There’s now a subscription management page that allows you to unsubscribe from/move your subscriptions. You can get there by clicking on “Subscriptions” in the user name dropdown in the upper right.

  13. Show Commented for friends' shares

    It would be nice to have the "Commented" folder come up whenever there is a new comment on any of my friend's shares.

    56 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    completed  ·  3 comments  ·  Admin →

  14. Add option to open items in background tabs

    I generally read through feed items and open the ones I want to read fully in a seperate tab using middle mouse click. An option to always open tabs in the background when hitting 'o' would be very useful.

    There are various ways to solve this using JavaScript, hopefully the team can find a good solution.

    55 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    5 comments  ·  Admin →

  15. justify list view and add snippets

    there's two huge changes your list view could use that would make it way more readable:

    1) justify all of the article titles at the same indentation as each other. essentially, there should be a column for the feed title and a column for the article title - this is how google reader does list view. right now, having a tag prepended to the title in list view is hard to visually scan and is jarring.

    2) include the initial bit of content from the article alongside the title. again, this is something google reader's list view does and it…

    49 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    6 comments  ·  Admin →

  16. Make option to open "All Items" when clicking the extension

    When clicking the chrome extension it opens "Home", it would be faster (also less page requests) it it opens automatically "All Items" page.

    43 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    3 comments  ·  Admin →

  17. Clarify what normal and reverse order are.

    In the settings, you have the option to sort the posts in normal and reverse order, some information about what normal and reverse are would be nice. For example

    normal (new posts first)
    reverse (old posts first)

    Or whatever normal and reverse are.

    37 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →

  18. Ability to share with followers and not the public

    I like the ability to share items publicly, but it would also be nice to only share items with people who follow you, all or specific people.

    And it would also be nice if you could prevent people from commenting on your public shared items.

    35 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    4 comments  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminThe Old Reader (Developer, The Old Reader) responded

    This has now been released. If you go to your settings, you can choose to protect your shared items. If selected, you must approve all new follow requests, and your shared items will not be available to anyone except your followers.

    If you “like” a post, your name may still appear on the post for all users.

  19. 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.

    31 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    4 comments  ·  Admin →

  20. 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 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    2 comments  ·  Admin →
2 4 5 … 8 9
  • Don't see your idea?

Feature requests

Categories

Feedback and Knowledge Base

(thinking…)