Read entries dissapear when clicking on External Links

[JulioV]

I just wanted to share the following CSS snippet that keeps read articles in display after clicking on their External link. This behavior changed with the latest update.

.hide-read-items .item-status-read:not(.current-item) {
    display: inherit;
}

On a related note I'd like to suggest having a css/theme gallery to share them among the community. Maybe a Discussion thread here on GitHub can work.

[Ciacconas]

Thanks for sharing this solution. After the behavior change I found myself going back to history for the last article entrt all the time.

[tducasse]

Thanks for this workaround @JulioV! I was running my own version of miniflux which was a bit outdated (v27), and this new default behavior surprised me when I jumped to the hosted version yesterday after paying for the one year plan.

@fguillot for some context if that helps, my worflow:

• open miniflux
• scan the entries one by one
• find something interesting, middle click on "external link" to read later
  • if this is from a website where the comments are going to be interesting, like hacker news, middle click on "comments"
• reach the bottom of the page, click on "mark page as read"
• repeat until I've gone through all the pages
• read the articles later, each in their own tab
  Note that this works on mobile too (at least for me), as I use "long press -> open in another tab".

Maybe what you're aiming for here is more "synchronous" (click on the article, read the article, go back to the list), but I like being able to sort through all the entries, and have all the articles open in their own context, in a separate tab. It allows me to do this in the morning before I start work, and I can maybe go on with my day and read the articles one by one as I have time during the day.

FYI for anyone coming here with the same issue, it seems like there's already a PR here: #1374

[woj-tek]

Oh, the #1374 would be awesome - I usually open a lot of YT feeds in the (background tabs) one by one and simply watch a couple of them, normally I won't manage all opened so it would be nice to keep them "unread" and mark as such manually. I hope it will be merged soon-ish :-)