“Full screen” mode. Back on Google reader I always used the full screen mode to read my articles. Because I use keyboard shortcuts to navigate articles, seeing the list of articles as well as the folder list is just a waste of screen space. If you hit ‘f’ in Google reader the entire browser window just becomes the articles. I would love to see that option added to NewsBlur. For clarification I’m not talking about ‘F11’ full screen. I’m talking about the reader taking up all of the browser window.
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This is possible now, I use it fairly often on my smaller laptop screen, but it’s a 2-step process instead of one hotkey.
Shift + U hides the feeds/folders sidebar (same hotkey as Reader, I think?)
Shift + T hides the story titles pane
Is that what you had in mind?
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That’s the stuff!! Awesome. They should just change a keyboard shortcut ‘f’ to do both of those things. Thank you so much DMack!
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I like the idea of a combined shortcut to hide/show both panes.
Mostly because I contantly hide one or the other accidentally and can’t remember the shortcuts to bring them back! I could remember “F”, though. 
One thing about full screen mode is that whiel it does hide the panes it doesn’t actually resize the story to take the entire screen
“Shift + T hides the story titles pane”
This no longer seems to be true. How do I hide these now?
This “fullscreen mode” is not really. Even when you hide the sidebar, you are still left with ~100px wasted vertical space in the “story-titles-header” and the “story_taskbar” (going by their markup names).
It seems there may once have been an option to hide one or both of these, but not right now.
I don’t even think my screen is tiny, it’s a 1280x800 laptop, but every millimeter counts.
There’s now a 3-way option of Full/Split/List (bottom right corner) whereas there just used to be 2. Click on Full if you want to hide the titles pane.
I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing. Full screen mode is great, but it needs to show your context (the top bar, which has the feed/folder title and controls), and the ability to change which view you see (the bottom bar). It’s not very big yet it’s quite powerful.