Auto mark as read when scrolling through posts

[BengaloBongali]

I replaced feedly with FeedEx as part of an attempt to shift to open-source apps wherever possible and after the newest update (navigation drawer) I'm very happy about that. Thanks!

One feature I miss that feedly has is that posts are automatically marked as read when I scroll through them (one by one when they're being scrolled up out of sight). That would be much more convenient than trying to hit the checkbox for each one and often unwillingly opening the post. You could add a switch in the options menu to de-/activate the feature.

Another problem I had was accidently sliding left/right while reading a post. It would be nice, if one was able to disable this as well.

[ildar]

posts are automatically marked as read when I scroll through them
That makes sense only if you can read the post right from the list, but it
isn't so with FeedEx.

[BengaloBongali]

Aaaaand when you know just by reading the headline that you don't want to read the post... Which happens all the time (for me). :)

[BengaloBongali]

I'm not shure, whether you see my problem... Example:
I have about 40 feeds, some of them are grouped.
So there are two ways to "read" a group:

• Read captions, read the posts you want to and mark those read, you don't want to read (which imho is a hustle)
• Read captions, read the posts you want to, leave those unread you don't want to read and hope that there won't be any new updates until you're at the end of the list, because you don't want to mark those as read, when you "mark all as read"

[FredJul]

Hi,

Once again, sorry for the late answer, I was quite busy these days.

Concerning your issue, I agree that the "mark all as read" can mark some unread feeds when there is an update. However, I'm not fan of the feedly solution (I personally could scroll without reading all the items). I will try to think of a simpler solution, if you have some ideas do not hesitate ;)

Fred

[ildar]

I will try to think of a simpler solution, if you have some ideas do not
hesitate ;)

Emm... Big brother's pattern (gmail): do not show new items/feeds if they
arrive while you're reading, just show the big button "show newly arrived"
(kinda)

BTW the mark-all-read buttons are very "dangerous" as they have no
confirmation and cannot be undone. Could you please fix that?

[FredJul]

I like this idea better!

Nevertheless, with the current architecture it will be delicate to proceed this way. I will see what I can do.

[BengaloBongali]

I still like the Feedly-way better, but I think I'd get used to ildar's suggestion as well even though I've never seen gmail.

[ildar]

What about protecting mark-all-read buttons?

[dalb8]

Instead of marking all as read, you could just mark as read all posts to the top i.e all posts newer than where one is in the list.

I would also like to express my annoyance with post swiping. If one prefers to swipe from one post to another though, it should be sensitive, so I agree that it swiping should be optional.

[temporarium]

Now that the option to have oldest entries at top has been implemented (and, therefore, new entries are added at the bottom), adding the option to automatically mark as read (OP) while scrolling down would be a great feature.

[temporarium]

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Now that the option to have oldest entries at top has been implemented (and, therefore, new entries are added at the bottom), adding the option to automatically mark as read (OP) should be easy to implement...

[temporarium]

Any chance of this being implemented? Would make for a PERFECT RSS reader...

[NaWer]

👍

[temporarium]

BUMP

[temporarium]

Please...

[SlackingVeteran]

Can you please explain me exactly about it, may be if i can try..
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[temporarium]

As explained by the OP: "One feature I miss that feedly has is that posts are automatically marked as read when I scroll through them (one by one when they're being scrolled up out of sight). That would be much more convenient than trying to hit the checkbox for each one and often unwillingly opening the post. You could add a switch in the options menu to de-/activate the feature."

When you enable "Entries order" (in the settings), oldest entries show up at the top and so you scroll them upwards as you advance to more recent ones. The idea is to have them marked as "Read" (and vanish off the unread list) as soon as they disappear behind the top menu bar - automatically. That way, if you have a lot of unread entries and you can't scroll throught them all at once, you just pick up reading where you left off, since the oldest unread is always at the top. All it needs is an option to enable this behavior (though I don't see why one wouldn't want it on by default...)

I hope I've explained this clearly enough for someone to implement. Thanks!

[SlackingVeteran]

Actually enabling this by an option if required is okay but i think its
unnecessary. But even then i will try to add this feature to test it..
On Jul 29, 2014 5:15 AM, "temporarium" notifications@github.com wrote:

As explained by the OP: "One feature I miss that feedly has is that posts
are automatically marked as read when I scroll through them (one by one
when they're being scrolled up out of sight). That would be much more
convenient than trying to hit the checkbox for each one and often
unwillingly opening the post. You could add a switch in the options menu to
de-/activate the feature."

When you enable "Entries order" (in the settings), oldest entries show up
at the top and so you scroll them upwards as you advance to more recent
ones. The idea is to have them marked as "Read" (and vanish off the unread
list) as soon as they disappear behind the top menu bar - automatically.
That way, if you have a lot of unread entries and you can't scroll throught
them all at once, you just pick up reading where you left off, since the
oldest unread is always at the top. All it needs is an option to enable
this behavior (though I don't see why one wouldn't want it on by default...)

I hope I've explained this clearly enough for someone to implement. Thanks!

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[temporarium]

Awesome!

[SlackingVeteran]

And please never ask the eta, because i cannot assure you how well can i
integrate this feature, i will try my best.
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Awesome!

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[BengaloBongali]

Great!

[temporarium]

I've noticed a GUI update with the latest release, but still nothing in this direction :-(

[studiosusmed]

Another option that I've been seen in a different RSS reader (forgot the name), was that I scrolled through the list and could then decide at a certain point to long click on a heading and got a context menu with the entry "mark all read until this entry".

That was very useful. However a feature like this or something suggested like above would be very helpful. +1 from me.

[temporarium]

Sorry to see that the simple interface is going down the drain. What's the point of these huge blobs next to the thread?
And something as useful as this idea seems soooo hard to implement...

[BengaloBongali]

I like the "image preview circles".

[temporarium]

Well, I don't, and I moved to gReader. It has the features I want.