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A new feature may be needed #148

Open scripting opened 1 year ago

scripting commented 1 year ago

I've noticed recently that news is flowing faster into the river pages, esp the All category on the main news page.

I'm not sure what's behind this apparent change --

  1. A bug in the software?
  2. More feeds updating more frequently?
  3. Something else?

But assuming it's not a bug, I feel the need to do something about this because the constant updating is interfering with reading!

You have the ability to turn off flow of new items to the Feed List page. It's in the Settings dialog, the last panel, Misc, entitled Block background updates for Feed List page.

I put this there because I needed it for debugging the Feed List page, but I left it in because why not.

I think maybe the thing to do is to extend this to block updates to all update-receiving pages, now and in the future.

With this feature implemented you would have to reload the page to see new items. Or visit the Settings page and turn it off, which seems like too much work.

Another possibility may be to have an on-screen control which means Stop Updating. It's hard to design such a feature without taking up too much screen real estate.

What do you think?

scripting commented 1 year ago

Similar idea -- we probably need a new way to choose the starting page, because now there is a third possibility, the User Feeds page.

akaKenSmith commented 1 year ago

Similar idea -- we probably need a new way to choose the starting page, because now there is a third possibility, the User Feeds page.

I was living with the User Feeds page for a bit before commenting, but my early thought was that this might come to be an increasingly important page for a FeedLand instance as it becomes a small lively community around a topic or issue, and if so, then it would be good to have the link to User Feeds not be buried so far in the drop-down menu.

moosebegab commented 1 year ago

I think maybe the thing to do is to extend this to block updates to all update-receiving pages, now and in the future.

With this feature implemented you would have to reload the page to see new items.

I like the reload idea.

fmcpherson commented 1 year ago

In case this helps because it seems like it might be related. I am occasionally seeing my all feeds updates appearing in whichever category tab I have open. I've resolved by switching tabs and by refreshing the browser. Not sure when this happens what I could do / capture that would help understand what's going on.

scripting commented 1 year ago

@fmcpherson -- yes, there is a place that needs to be smarter, and your workaround is the way to work around the problem for now.