Articles disappear in feedbin client app such as reeder, Mr reader and fiery feeds Once it is read.

[ghost]

Hi feedbin support,

Once I read an article in feedbin clients such as Reeder, Mr reader and fiery feeds, the respective articles disappear permanently. I assume that it is some setting I have enable in feedbin to retain articles even after it is read. But I couldn't find it anywhere . Could you please help me in configuring this ?

Regards Mani

[Zegnat]

Do you switch Feedbin to “ALL” in the lefthand column? Items should not just disappear. Instead they are marked as read when you mark them as read in your client. Remember, they synchronise with Feedbin, including read state. Items are moved out of the default “UNREAD” column on the online Feedbin interface, but should not be gone.

Some feed clients may allow you to configure them so they do not mark items as read unless you specifically take that action yourself. E.g. in Reeder, Settings → Accounts → Reading → Mark article as read.

[ghost]

Thanks Zegnat. Using some configuration parameters in the feedbin clients such as reeder , I could manage to maintain the articles in an unread state. With this the articles are retained. As a follow up question , could you let me know if there is any way , I can switch off the unread/read state in feedbin interface itself so that the articles are always in unread state? As I use multiple devices, using this method I could control the state info at feedbin server rather than configuring them it multiple devices and different clients for which the methods vary. ?

[Zegnat]

Something like that isn’t available.

Most clients use Feedbin’s API to synchronise read states, to explicitly mark something as read in all clients at the same time. When a client tells the Feedbin servers to mark an item as read then that’s what happens on the server so when other clients update their data they will also know something has been read.

Is there any reason you do not want your feed readers to synchronise with each other?

[ghost]

The reason why I need that kind of feature is a follows. I use three devices 2 mobile devices (smartphones) and a iPad. Out of these I never carry iPad outside of my home and carry 1 out of the 2 mobile devices whenever I am out of home. I read technical articles and refer them as needed for reference. For example if I read an article in iPad and if it gets synchronised, it won't be available in my mobile device which I carry outside of my home. In other words if all the articles are available in all the 3 devices, I need not worry about situations like "the article has been read in device 1 and therefore won't be available in device 2 " etc.