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Mark as read by number of days and other improvements

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Here’s a few big improvements for the NewsBlur website.

  • The site title bar is now mounted to the bottom of the screen. This will allow you to mark a site/folder as read at any time.
  • Marking as read can go back a configurable amount: 1, 3, 7, and 14 days back.

  • If you’re reading in newest-first order, when you mark a site as read, any newer stories that have come in since you’ve loaded the site will no longer be marked as read.
  • When you add, move, or delete a site or folder, all of your open web browsers will reload to correctly show the change. This allows you to have NewsBlur open at home and at work, knowing they will be synced when you change or add sites.

You may be thinking to yourself, 1, 3, and 7 days back makes sense, but why 14 if the unread limit is at 14 days? Why, having 14 days as an option would only make sense if the full limit was… (stay tuned).

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kemayo
3876 days ago
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"when you mark a site as read" -- does that also apply to the main river?
St Louis, MO
JonKnight
3875 days ago
very confusing change. cannot seem to get the mark as read to work at all.
DivinoAG
3876 days ago
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On the bottom? Sorry but that makes no design sense. All navigation, along with the feed titles on groups are all on the top, why would I need to look down to find the group title? I think that's a bad choice. :/
California
geoffwood
3876 days ago
Got to agree with that. It's now floating off on it's own about as far away as possible from all the other frequently used controls. Makes ZERO sense to me.
njr
3876 days ago
I complained too and it's getting fixed soon (https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/_mark_all_as_read_function_when_folder_contents_is_displayed_is_missing).
BLueSS
3876 days ago
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"Why, having 14 days as an option would only make sense if the full limit was… (stay tuned)."

COULD IT BE?!
gazuga
3876 days ago
30 days is the new limit Samuel is aiming to implement. He was very gracious in a long support thread about it.
austinstorm
3875 days ago
Yes! My one remaining complaint about NewsBlur.
Aissen
3875 days ago
At last ! Would be awesome !
samuel
3873 days ago
…and done. See the blog post just above this one.