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olsh / Feedly-Notifier

Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Edge extension for reading news from RSS aggregator Feedly
http://olsh.github.io/Feedly-Notifier/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Sorting problem #224

Closed Mioni closed 1 year ago

Mioni commented 1 year ago

Hello, I use engagement rate mode but it is not working, there is an article that has more popularity but is below that has less popularity. image

olsh commented 1 year ago

Hi @Mioni

Thank you for the feedback 👍🏻

This may sound strange, but this is by design 😟 The plugin performs sorting as Feedly does. It uses engagementRate for sorting, not engagement. https://github.com/olsh/Feedly-Notifier/blob/9fb5d6be181995d3c02e9dbeae518fc421dcc461/src/scripts/core.js#L605-L611

Here is the response from the Feedly team:

The sorting is done on engagementRate, not engagement. This normalizes the engagement values between entries and between sources, so that very popular sources don't push smaller ones out of the results. It also uses a recent time window first, and loads older entries if it doesn't find enough, so the results might vary.

Feel free to re-open the issue.

Mioni commented 1 year ago

Wouldn't there be a way for the extension to sort the most popular articles? like this extension does? https://github.com/soufianesakhi/feedly-filtering-and-sorting

olsh commented 1 year ago

Well, we could sort by the engagement property on the client, but this won't solve the problem with sorting on the server side. The extension requests only top n (Max number of feeds in the popup) articles from the Feedly API. And Feedly API sorts by the engagementRate anyway.