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  1. UWP Windows 10 app

    please make an official Windows 10 UWP app. The other 3rd party apps appear not to be under further development...

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  2. Search only in unread posts

    Search only in unread posts:
    I want a checkbox "Search only in unread posts" next to the search button.
    I often need a search which only searches in my unread posts.

    Thanks, Jan

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  3. Be compatible with hint-mode by making all clickable interfaces anchor tags

    tl;dr: Make <div class="pull-left list-header no-left-label">...</div> into an <a> tag.

    In keyboard-focused browser interfaces, such as

    • Vimperator
    • cVim
    • vimFx
    • Vimium
    • qutebrowser

    one can highlight and select links easily without the mouse. Typically, one presses 'f' (follow link) and all the links currently visible get little yellow boxes next to them. Press the keys in the box and you follow the link.

    Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKyUQZBZRK8

    Links are found by selecting all the 'a' elements on the page. Link hinting typically cannot detect if an arbitrary element has had an onClick event handler added due to browser security features.

    To support link hinting,…

    3 votes
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  4. Widget to display a list of feeds I'm subscribed to

    I've searched but can't see this suggested elsewhere; apologies if this is a duplicate.

    Google Reader used to have a widget that you could use in, say wordpress, to provide a list of the feeds/blogs you were following, which could be done at a folder level.

    The reason why I'd like this functionality is because I follow a number of IT-related blogs that I'd like to list on my own blog. Whilst I have just hardcoded it, it would be very nice if it could be dynamic and pick up new blogs that I add over in TOR automatically.

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  5. Mark posts above currently displayed post as read (similar to "older than" but not by date)

    This is a little similar to https://theoldreader.uservoice.com/forums/187017-feature-requests/suggestions/4149552-list-view-bulk-action-mark-some-as-read, except that I think having to mark checkboxes on each post would be incredibly tedious for the use case I have in mind (especially on mobile). https://theoldreader.uservoice.com/forums/187017-feature-requests/suggestions/3803731-provide-a-partial-mark-as-read-mechanism-for-list is also somewhat similar, although that appears to have been "completed" in a way other than what I have in mind here.

    As described in the second post, I would like to be able to mark only part of a folder as read, with a behavior similar to "Mark all as read Older than..." feature, but without reference to a specific age of post, rather…

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  6. The "Star" button does not remove the added article from Pocket after deleting it.

    Currently, flagging an article as an asterisk adds it to the Pocket app. After removing the asterisk, the article is also removed from Pocket. Can this be changed?

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  7. Fix Shift/Ctrl-Click opens the target on the current tab

    Hello!

    I have a problem with the web interface of TheOldReader. In almost all web browsers users can control where a clicked link should be opened:

    • Control+Click to a URL opens the link in a new browser tab;
    • Shift+Click to a URL opens the link in a new browser window.

    That works in TheOldReader if I click on the title of an article. Unfortunately, TheOldReader tries to enforce a different behavior. If links are clicked inside an article TheOldReader opens the link in the current tab which is unexpected and very inconvenient.

    For me this is extra inconvenient because I…

    3 votes
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  8. Changing font size within the article area

    Would be a very helpful feature for accessibility without having to change the whole page structure by page zoom which affects the subscription column, buttons and overall readability.
    Thank you.

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  9. Persist user sessions across server restarts

    It seems that whenever the server is restarted/updated, I get logged out. Can the user sessions be persisted to disk in those situations so that I don’t have to log in again?

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  10. Allow an option to see embedded YouTube links logged in again

    Previously, embedded YouTube videos did not use the nocookie url. Now that they do, it is impossible to add videos in the feed to your own watch later list easily.

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  11. ACP Sheet Price

    Wow! Such an amazing and helpful post this is. https://mccoymart.com/product/cladding/aluminium-composite-panel-acp/

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  12. Mastodon share URL

    Offer a Share to Mastodon button (similar to Facebook, etc.) except ofcourse I would have to configure Mastodon instance.

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  13. Cannot add https://fy.blackhats.net.au/rss.xml

    Hello,

    The blog at https://fy.blackhats.net.au/ has an RSS feed at https://fy.blackhats.net.au/rss.xml

    When I try to add that URL to The Old Reader, I get

    We couldn't find an exact match, but here are some similar feeds we found that might be what you're looking for.
Feeds similar to https://fy.blackhats.net.au/rss.xml

[Subscribe] Firstyear's blog-a-log https://fy.blackhats.net.au

    Not sure why an exact URL results in this "no exact match found" message.

    Clicking that [Subscribe] button makes the button change to [Loading...], and then the error "No feeds found by that keyword or URL" appears.

    However, the RSS feed URL seems to be correct. I…

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  14. Commented: scroll to comments

    Clicking on the Commented folder should scroll to the first post's comments

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  15. Fetch and show the post's (author's) tags from the source

    This is something I saw on newsblur and it's very helpful in deciding whether or not to open the full-text of a post when its title is not enough.
    So the line for the list view will look like:
    [post title][tag 1]...[tag n]

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  16. Close current item when clicking its title (and toggle visibility with <ENTER>)

    When I read posts (in Google Reader) I sometimes "zoom" out by closing the one post I'm currently on. I'd like to have this feature in theoldreader as well. Thanks!

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  17. Sort subscriptions by number of unread

    Allow sorting of subscriptions by the number of unread items. You could sort either least -> most or most -> least. This way, you could hit all the "small" volume subscriptions first and get to the fuller ones later (or vice-versa)

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  18. offer an option to donate to TOR via old-fashioned U.S. mail. I do not use any of the social network sites - senior citizen.

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  19. Resize text

    It would be nice to be able to make the text of blog posts bigger, especially as the sidebar cannot be tucked away to allow for more screenroom.

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  20. Ability to turn off any social features!

    I just want to read my news in a quick way with a simple interface, no social anything which disturbs the clean interface. no recommendations, trends, ...

    So if i could turn all these features off under settings, that would be great.

    Ability to email an article to someone else is enough.

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