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"Yep. And it never figured out how to handle high-vol and low-vol blogs together in any meaningful way". What I always thought but was never able to articulate so well (hi again fellow twitter user).
How would you expect it to handle high and low volume blogs together "meaningfully"? I guess I'm not really sure what the problem is: it's pretty easy to put all your high volume stuff into a single category so you can mark everything read at once, if that is the issue.
some people post rarely, and they often have very high quality well thought out posts. others are media outlets or blabber mouths.
you can balance them by presenting a feed of what is new, moving each item through the "what's new" section at a speed relative to that feed's post frequency.
so a feed that posts rarely would have its new items persist in the new area for a longer time.
a feed that posts 20 times a day would move its posts through the new area each day.
> it's pretty easy to put all your high volume stuff into a single category so you can mark everything read at once
I have thousands of subscriptions. I'm not going to take the time to judge and separate them. this is a job for a computer.