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0 pointsoAlbe11y ago0 comments

Another useful feature would be the ability to chose after how many days automatically mark things as read. Honestly, I've stopped using RSS feeds because Feedly has an option that marks everything older than 30 days as read without any possibility to disable it (as far as I can tell). I hate it, but I don't even know if it's a built-in feature of the RSS itself rather than the client.

In any case, your client does not say anything regarding the matter. My apologies in case this is something that can't be controlled.

EDIT: Another, small, thing: probably would be a better idea to make put the bar that, after registration, alerts to "check the email in order to verify the account" on top of the screen rather than on the bottom; or at least chat it's color to something more eyecatching. I don't know if it's only me, but I almost missed it.

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amatriain11y ago

Feedbunch does NOT mark entries as read after a certain period. That's not a feature of RSS at all, I guess it is a feedly-specific feature (or anti-feature, I guess, depending on your needs).

What Feedbunch does, however, is limit how many entries it remembers for each feed. The current limit is 500 entries for a single feed; once a feed has more than 500 entries the oldest ones are removed until there are 500 left. The number (500) could be subject to change during the beta phase if users' feedback indicates it is too high or too low.

oAlbeOP11y ago

Thanks, this is a very good news. I'm definitely going to import my feeds right now :)

> The number (500) could be subject to change during the beta phase if users' feedback indicates it is too high or too low.

I don't think if this would be of any use for you but actually, there are websites that in a month produce way more than 500 entries. LifeHacker for example produces something from 730 to 800 entries per month (with very few of them being useful at all... and this is the reason why I decided to unsubscribe). So everything depends on how (and how much) a user checks the reader.

detaro11y ago

Oh. That's (IMHO of course) an even worse anti-feature, since I use my feedreader to archive interesting stuff from RSS feeds, and removing things after a few months kills that. But I can see how it makes sense for some users, and is a way to limit costs for a hosted offering.

detaro11y ago

That's the first reader I've heard of that has such an option and doesn't allow to turn it off... sounds like a really bad idea.

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0 pointsoAlbe11y ago0 comments

In any case, your client does not say anything regarding the matter. My apologies in case this is something that can't be controlled.

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amatriain11y ago

Feedbunch does NOT mark entries as read after a certain period. That's not a feature of RSS at all, I guess it is a feedly-specific feature (or anti-feature, I guess, depending on your needs).

oAlbeOP11y ago

Thanks, this is a very good news. I'm definitely going to import my feeds right now :)

> The number (500) could be subject to change during the beta phase if users' feedback indicates it is too high or too low.

detaro11y ago

That's the first reader I've heard of that has such an option and doesn't allow to turn it off... sounds like a really bad idea.

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