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By: juno

juno — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:11:15 +0000

THANK YOU, trogo! And to ghacks for starting this! :)
At last!
Don’t know why this is so “hidden”
There should be a more obvious way to sort, as is clear from all the frustrated comments!

Thanks!
juno
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By: trogo

trogo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:59:38 +0000

There is a way, near the “subscription” title, there is a “down arrow” (meaning drop down menu), and in that menu I was able to choose “sort alphabetically”

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By: D

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:46:54 +0000

The feeds list is automatically alphabetized until the first time you drag a feed to reorder the list. After that, automatic alphabetizing is turned off, and there is no way to turn it back on.

By: tecben

tecben — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:14:13 +0000

Yeah i have like 200 feeds and it took a hour or two to get them in order. :D

By: Guido Trueb

Guido Trueb — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:09:12 +0000

Sorry, but “my” Google Reader alphabetically sorts my subscriptions automatically! Maybe you have imported and it was not sorted, and Google Reader maintained the order. E-mail them and try to find out what is wrong with your RSS reader…

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:28:29 +0000

What I always do in order to look at a specific feed in GReader is drop down the menu next to the search box (it says “All Items” by default), and then scroll down to the subscriptions list, choose my subscription, click search (leave the search box empty, just hit the search button) and it shows the items from that feed. Those are always sorted alphabetically, not in any folders or tags, just a regular list of your feeds.

By: Ucla74

Ucla74 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:28:16 +0000

Interesting…I can’t get my subs to alphabetize either. I have several folders into which I’ve sorted my subscribed feeds, as well as tags, which show up as folders (for individual items).

I wonder if removing folders/tags would alphabetize the feeds.

In any event, it simply doesn’t make sense that there are no sorting options. (I, too, have well over 200 feeds!)

By: sauzatime

sauzatime — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:52:15 +0000

Mine are, and always have been, alphabetized automatically. Surprised yours aren’t…

By: Roberto B.

Roberto B. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:28:19 +0000

My new feeds are not alphabetized anymore (once they were). I suppose de-alphabetization occurs the first time you manually reorder some feeds. In my case it happened by mistake, I would like to have them automatically sorted as they were.

By: Critch

Critch — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:11:16 +0000

Martin, My feeds and folders are alphabetized as well. These have been added randomly over the last year so the alphabetical order is happening automatically.

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:03:14 +0000

My subscriptions are alphabetized automatically too, and folders that i made to sort some of them are alphabetized automatically!?!?!?

By: orhan

orhan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:58:57 +0000

there is a very handy shortcut to access the feed you are looking for. just type “g” and then “u”. this will bring the list of your subscriptions. type the title of feed you are looking for (eg gha… for ghacks), voila!

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:55:37 +0000

Linus well if I want to check on a specific feed I have to locate it first.

By: Linus

Linus — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:43:00 +0000

Why is it important?

By: 0d3

0d3 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:27:50 +0000

I actually switched to Google Reader just a couple a weeks ago and I like it a lot.

For me the subscriptions are alphabetized automatically. If I add a new feed, it will be added to the end of the subscription list but after logging out and back in the new feed moves to the correct spot in the alphabet.

I didn’t start by importing an OPML but added all my feeds manually so that I could do some cleaning at the same time.