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  1. Great reader! One suggestion

    Great reader! One suggestion I'd like to make is to provide a link in the listing that allows you to go directly to the source article without having to open the summary? Most times I can simply read the headline and would like to go directly to the source without having to open the summary and then click on the provided link to go there.

    11 votes
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  2. deliver GOOGLE ALERTS to the old reader

    please show how to add a new GOOGLE ALERThttp://www.google.com/alerts to the old reader instead of the google reader or email

    11 votes
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  3. Remove Facebook

    I added support/allowed access to my facebook account, but now I want to remove all linkage to that. All I see is the option to remove it from my profile. I want, however, to remove all traces of facebook from my reader.

    11 votes
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  4. iOS app

    Make a native iOS app, not just an API. I love the look and feel of the website and would love to have that in a native app.

    Even just an app that's a client for the website would be better. I just want it separate from my browser.

    11 votes
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  5. 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…

    11 votes
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  6. Send to Tumblr

    !

    10 votes
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  7. A link to an original enclosure

    Each entry should display a link to an original enclosure if there's one. E.g. see flickr.com feeds. There's a <link rel="enclosure"> for each entry, and Google Reader displays a separate link for it at the end of the entry. TheOldReader should do the same for easier access to enclosures.

    10 votes
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  8. Add a "safe for work" filter to the Trending feed

    It should be possible to filter graphic content

    10 votes
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  9. Mark as all as read by date option

    In Google reader, until it's unfortunate demise, you can "mark all as read" but choose "items older than x." When sometimes you come online after days away from your feeds (vacation, a great weekend, long work binges, etc.) that is an incredibly useful feature.

    10 votes
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  10. Duplicate Item

    I'd like a way to remove/ auto-mark as read any duplicate feed based on content

    10 votes
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  11. alphabetizing

    Is it possible to alphabetize feeds manually or automatically?
    I noticed one can drag them but that's a lot of work ... sometimes.
    Hope to hear from you,

    regards,

    Roel

    10 votes
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  12. Folders in folders, option "collapsed folders"

    I have many folders with many feeds in it. If I was able to use subfolders I would be able to organize everything better.

    I also think there should be an option to have all the folders collapsed from the beginning. No matter what screensize I'm using, 8" to 27", I want all the folders to be collapsed from the start.

    10 votes
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  13. Editing comments

    Users should be able to edit a comment during 2 minutes after posting it.

    9 votes
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  14. View unread + liked posts

    I often use the star/like feature to mark read posts that I want to refer back to. I would like the option to see all the posts that are relevant to me (that means unread as well as liked) when viewing a feed.

    The liked posts view is unfortunately pretty worthless to me as it shows me all liked posts. Without the context of the feed there are just too many posts here for me to find anything or get any sort of overview.

    9 votes
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  15. a tab for seeing the original post

    This helps a lot for feeds that don't include the full-text in the feed. Or don't post things like user comments in the feed. Instead of clicking on the post to open it in a new window/tab it'd be nice if once can just click on tab under the post to switch from "feed view" to "original view".

    9 votes
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  16. Enhance "touchability"

    Make the fold/unfold arrows easier to touch on touch-enabled screens on tablets. One needs to zoom in just to touch it correctly, and is annoying.

    9 votes
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  17. Option to hide "site: xxx" and "feed: xxx" on the top

    Please make it possible to hide the "Seite: xxx and Feed: xxx" on the top of the feed-abonement. for me its not aesthetic. Maybe you can make a checkbox for this option in the settings. thx.

    9 votes
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  18. Embed Popouts

    The original reader has a feature where known embeds have a link which pops the embed out into a new small browser window. This allows you to listen to video/audio while continuing to browse your feeds.

    9 votes
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  19. disable rss feeds temporarily

    I have rss feeds for work i would like to disable when i'm home, so it would be great if we could stop the feeds temporarily

    9 votes
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  20. Embedded Audio

    First off, I love The Old Reader. I was a Google Reader user and--of all the possible replacements--The Old Reader is my favorite. My only hesitation is that it seems to be stripping content from some of my feeds.

    As an example, the feed below should have an AAC file embeded in each post:

    http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/imix/imixid=646113515/sf=143441/xml?v0=9984

    The feed shows up in The Old Reader fine--albeit without the AAC files. If you enter the same RSS feed into Google Reader or Feedly, the AAC files show up fine.

    Do you know why this is? Can you make it so that the files…

    9 votes
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