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Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

theelmer wrote: post #32

Simple_Panda wrote: post #29

Reeder. It lacks what all RSS feeds seem to lack - a "mark all up to here as read" feature. If I have 1000 unread items in a stream and I leaf through 200 of them I want to right click and article and mark all chronologically preceding articles as read. Nothing seems to do that.

a) What Simple_Panda said. (100 points) b) Ability to limit items from a feed to N most recent (e.g. 100 items). Older items should be handled as read. (30 points) c) Ability to limit items from a feed to N most recent days (e.g. 2 days). Older items should be handled as read. (30 points) I use Google Reader and I like most of its features. It lacks the aforementioned :)

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Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by jkemp321 » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 9:57 PM UTC

theelmer wrote: post #32

Simple_Panda wrote: post #29

Reeder. It lacks what all RSS feeds seem to lack - a "mark all up to here as read" feature. If I have 1000 unread items in a stream and I leaf through 200 of them I want to right click and article and mark all chronologically preceding articles as read. Nothing seems to do that.

a) What Simple_Panda said. (100 points) b) Ability to limit items from a feed to N most recent (e.g. 100 items). Older items should be handled as read. (30 points) c) Ability to limit items from a feed to N most recent days (e.g. 2 days). Older items should be handled as read. (30 points) I use Google Reader and I like most of its features. It lacks the aforementioned :)

I like DailySync (http://dailysync.com) on iPhone. It supports b) by default.

It has a couple of other features that makes it very efficient to keep up with many feeds

- mark an individual item as read both in the snapshot view (using a long press) and detailed view (you can also mark all items as read/unread)

- "close" feeds that you want to read later; the screen space is used more efficiently

- see the count of unread items posted today for all feeds in a group at once (I find this very useful)

Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by zerofate » Wed, Jul 13, 2011, 10:25 AM UTC

hkuo wrote: post #43

Reeder. But here's the one feature I'd kill for. There will always be duplicate links fr different news sources, like Techmeme, Techcrunch, Hacker News and such pointing to the same article source. All if want is for those to be grouped together so I don't have to be exposed to the same article multiple times while scrolling through the feed.

+1, I wanted to recommend this feature to the gReader team, tried using twitter and sending this perfect artistic mock up http://twitpic.com/56aj27 but nothing came of it.

Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by kapauldo » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 2:42 PM UTC

Google reader mobile, even on the desktop, because it let's me read a few stories at a time. I'd love 2 features:

1) let me make the damn font bigger 2) let me customize how many stories I view at a time. 15 is too many for me.

Btw, I wrote a bookmarklet to bump the font size up on reader mobile if anyone wants it.