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This is for the most part now available with Premium accounts. We store posts up to 6 months old, and the title and body of the post will be in the search index for premium subscribers.
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Thanks for the input tasos, that’s exactly what I found too. Most of the services touted as a GReader replacement do not support search (like Feedbin and NewsBlur) or do not keep feed items for ever (like The Old Reader).
A couple of self-hosted systems do support search (Fever, selfoss, Tiny Tiny RSS) but this means you have to be able to have a server running 24/7. Something a lot of GReader refugees will not be able to do. Maybe The Old Reader can look at some of those systems for inspiration?
ReplaceReader (http://replacereader.com/) currently shows The Old Reader as the fourth best replacement, fighting Bloglines for this place. Being the first of the many replacements to figure out backwards search would certainly boost user confidence!
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Pavel:
I could clarify that when I said ‘The Old Reader should store every item I have ever read’ I meant ‘ever read in The Old Reader’. But I thought this was clear enough. I never requested to be able to read what The Old Reader doesn’t know about.
Google Reader never went and found feeds on its own so it would never index items before someone subscribed to a feed. It could only read back to the day you subscribed and that exact behaviour can be copied by The Old Reader.
Also note that you already went wrong in your first sentence about the technology. RSS/ATOM feeds do not only expose ‘the last few posts’. In fact, I am subscribed to several feeds that go back to the beginning of the site. This is completely up to the website owner.