Mark Read on Scroll

[Sjmarf]

When the "mark read on scroll" setting is enabled, posts would be marked as read automatically when they appear on your screen. Apollo had this

[mormaer]

I agree this'd be a nice addition - I think the reason it wasn't added yet is that there is no batch mark as read call available on the API, meaning scrolling quickly would force us to spam the API with individual requests...

We could consider some kind of state faking if we really wanted it, and perform the individual calls in a queue but that could get messy - my opinion is that it'd be preferable to wait on the API supporting batch calls for these operations

[rabidpug]

FYI looks like a PR was merged in October that enables batch calls for marking posts as read: LemmyNet/lemmy#4048

[Sjmarf]

Yep, I just saw that! I'll have a go at this one sometime 👍

[EricBAndrews]

I've prototyped a technique for detecting when to mark posts as read that feels pretty good.

That's the last technical blocker to this issue, so I'm slating it for 1.3.