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> inbox got a bit out of hand by having too many unread items piled up. I slowly stopped looking at them before abandoning the idea completely And this is prec
by Aelius 8y ago
> inbox got a bit out of hand by having too many unread items piled up. I slowly stopped looking at them before abandoning the idea completely
And this is precisely why it's insane and counterproductive to have unread counts on an RSS feed.
Don't obsess over reading every last article. It's a feed. Read what looks interesting. Let other things go. Don't track what you've read or what you've missed. There's nothing down that path but frustration and stress.
And yet, almost no RSS developers see the wisdom in this, and they prefer to embrace the dumb idea with open arms.
- majewsky 8y agoOr, better yet, let me turn the unread counter on or off for specific feeds.
- dewey 8y agoI think that also wouldn't solve the issue, what needs to be handled better is the difference between high volume feeds and low volume feeds. I absolutely want to see every post of my friend's blog that has a post every few months. What I don't care about is to get every single MacRumors post with the latest gossip because that would make up about 15 items / day. I've seen some of the hosted solutions going into that direction but there doesn't seem to be a self-hosted or app doing that yet.
- Aelius 8y ago> I absolutely want to see every post of my friend's blog I handle this by subdividing my feeds into useful categories- a feature which every RSS client supports. My friend's blogs are placed in a category alongside other low-volume feeds. I never miss a post.
- Aelius 8y agoI'll through in a cross platform RSS solution: http://offog.org/code/rawdog/ http://offog.org/code/rawdog/ I found a project similar to this, but unfortunately I can't find it again. Rawdog is a little rough around the edges, but worth a try.
- tschellenbach 8y agoYeah, Winds doesn't show any unread counts https://github.com/GetStream/Winds https://github.com/GetStream/Winds Less stress