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samuelclay / NewsBlur

NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.
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Android: Story list advanced past read article #1881

Open sictiru opened 3 months ago

sictiru commented 3 months ago

Newsblur advances far into the unread list after I read an article. This means I have to scroll up and up to get back to the article I just read. Then it seems that Newsblur is reluctant to mark as read articles that scroll off the top of the screen.

vgivanovic commented 3 months ago

I'm happy to provide more information if it's needed.

I've been a Newsblur user since an asteroid caused the Chicxulub crater, and I use Newblur in almost the same way every time. This means I'm sensitive to changes in behavior. I haven't changed my feeds since Napoleon invaded Russia, and I restrict myself to unread articles. I do switch occasionally between text and story modes, and I don't use any other features. (I seem to have Focus selected, but I don't know what it does.)

My story order is newest first, and I have content preview set to 4 lines. I read top-down, opening articles I find interesting. I often follow Newsblur's story link to an outside site. In one out of ten articles, I email the Newsblur story link to myself. In Hacker News articles I occasionally email myself a comments link.

What seems to be happening is that Newsblur loses where it is supposed to return to when a story is opened and then closed. It seems to jump to the middle of my unread list. (Getting back to where I was involves scrolling up many screenfulls since I have ~1200 unreaded stories.) Now it doesn't seen occur all the time, but a few days ago it seemed to occur all the time.

sictiru commented 2 months ago

@vgivanovic Is this somewhat representative of your usage? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JDI-ceNqJdmCWV3WgdP46c252D7dcjah/view?usp=sharing In the recording I'm highlighting the behavior of the stories list after reading the content of a few stories.

The Focus tab is for viewing stories from stories/authors you tagged via the trainer. If you want to view all your unread stories, use the Unread tab.

samuelclay commented 1 week ago

I haven't seen this before but I'd love to resolve it. If it happens again, try to take note of how long you had that folder open and how many stories down you are. Also would be helpful to note if you are within a few hundred pixels of the bottom of the story list, when a new page would be loaded.

Also, here's something that might be the culprit. If you're in Focus mode, you're going to most likely be loading a bunch of feed pages with few if any stories that are visible (Unread or Hidden stories). Which means you will be paging a whole lot. I do this with Hacker News, where I thumbs down the whole feed and thumbs up certain title phrases. This means that my Hacker News feed takes quite a while to load, and when there's a bunch of stories from Hacker News but most are hidden, my All Site Stories feed can page a fair bit before more than 1-2 stories come through. @sictiru It might be worth setting HN up that way on the android_speed account, but making sure you thumbs up some common titles so that it still loads.