Feature requests
173 results found
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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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When "Clicking on a post scrolls to it" is enabled, only scroll up when the post is not active
Currently, when I click on a post I'm reading it scrolls up to the top of the post, which is annoying and makes me lose my place.
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let the profile RSS feed show initial shared comment and link to share
I love the sharing feature (ala old Google Reader), but if someone is using a different RSS reader to follow my shares, the RSS feed doesn't contain the comment I placed when I shared the item.
Response comments would also be nice on the RSS feed, but not as important.
Adding that, would let my profile page be like a microblog.
The follower should also have an easy way to access the shared post specifically to add response comments.Thanks!
10 votesDone. There is “tor:note” tag containing user’s note in plain text and “comments” tag containing link to user’s profile with specific post preloaded on top of it.
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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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add support for json feeds
add support for json feeds, such as storenvy's products.json which has replaced their rss feed
10 votesJust rolled out support for JSON Feed. Let us know if you have any issues.
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Confirm button for "mark all as read"
At least three times I've ruined my feeds by accidentally hitting "mark all as read". At the very LEAST there should be a " confirm" prompt - ideally the mark all as read button should be hidden in a menu instead of right where it can be easily fat-fingered and there'd be an undo function.
10 votesThere is now a setting on the users page that will confirm when the “mark all as read” button is pressed.
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Show shared item source (currently overwritten by sharer's username)
Items I've subscribed to are displayed as:
HEADLINE
Source by AuthorItems that are shared with me are displayed as:
HEADLINE
Username by AuthorThis means if my friend John shares an article from The Onion, I can't tell that it's an article from The Onion because it will look like
PRESIDENT OBAMA RECALLS PICKLES
John by Joe Smithinstead of
PRESIDENT OBAMA RECALLS PICKLES
The Onion by Joe SmithThe item's source should not be obscured. This is valuable information.
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support RTL (Hebrew/Arabic)
Reading Hebrew feeds is painful: The text is left-aligned, and bidi is all wrong, which means if there are any numbers/Latin in a line, the text flow is completely broken.
9 votesWe’ve added RTL post detection to API and web interface.
Please vote for RTL interface, if you’re interested: http://theoldreader.uservoice.com/forums/187017-feature-requests/suggestions/5683750-rtl-interface-localization -
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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Make shift+j and shift+k also do what shift+n and shift+p do
This is how Google reader behaves and it is slightly easier as I often use j and k for navigation and won't have to move the placement of my fingers.
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Bug Tracker
There should be somewhere to file bug reports.
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add an mp3 player
Google reader lets you play feeds with mp3s in them wtih a web based mp3 player.
Add: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/wiretap.xml
to google reader to see it in action. I add the same link to T.O.R and no mp3s.Solution, when I click a link with an mp3/podcast in it, an mp3 player should pop up under my folder list so I can play my podcast and keep browsing.
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Add support for pubsubhubbub
Making pub-compatible feeds refresh almost instantly.
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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 -
Paypal for donation
Don't want to sign up for my 3721'th social medial site.
7 votesPlease use button placed on our community page: http://theoldreader.com/pages/community
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Include audio enclosures when sharing podcast feed items
When sharing podcast feed items, enclosures are not showing up in the share feed. I used this feature a lot in Google Reader to create my own "mix tape" of podcast items.
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Make a users Shared Items an RSS feed that can be accessed by other services.
This would make it so that my shared items can be accessed by someone using a different feed reader (feedly, or HiveReader, etc...)
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An option to remove yourself from the import queue.
I have just imported my subscriptions from Google Reader manualy (actualy using javascript and your feeds/subscribe?=url feature :-) ), so I no longer need to have my subscriptions imported. It would be nice to have an option to cancel the import process to speed up the queue.
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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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Make o, v, and b open the selected item, not the topmost visible item.
When you click on an item in the middle of screen, the list scrolls until the item is at the top of the screen. If you then scroll the screen down to show items above the selected item and then hit o, v, or b the topmost item will be opened in a tab instead of the selected item.
6 votes
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