Right now, Poketo is geared around keeping up-to-date with series. We track reading progress by the latest chapter release timestamp: if you've read a chapter that was released on August 20th, 2018, you've presumably read all the chapters released up until that point.
This assumption works fine when you're only tracking new series, but I find many of the series I read on Poketo are ones that I'm actively reading from the beginning. Doing this works, but its not great for a few reasons:
New chapters of these series get marked as "unread" which is annoying since that notification sits around for a while and I'm not even caught up enough to care about the new chapter.
When reading these series, I have to manually remember what the last chapter I read was. There's a few times where I've hopped around to find my place, which means accidentally re-reading chapters or, at worst, risks spoiling a series.
To solve this, lets build a system to track reading progress in a way that's distinct from release time. It'll make Poketo a lot more useful for reading series — not just following updates.
rosszurowski
commented
6 years ago
Right now, Poketo is geared around keeping up-to-date with series. We track reading progress by the latest chapter release timestamp: if you've read a chapter that was released on August 20th, 2018, you've presumably read all the chapters released up until that point.
This assumption works fine when you're only tracking new series, but I find many of the series I read on Poketo are ones that I'm actively reading from the beginning. Doing this works, but its not great for a few reasons:
To solve this, lets build a system to track reading progress in a way that's distinct from release time. It'll make Poketo a lot more useful for reading series — not just following updates.
Related issues: #21, poketo/poketo-service#4