spacecowboy / Feeder

Android RSS reader app
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Request for ability to sync read progress amongst multiple Feeders #367

Open privacyadmin opened 1 month ago

privacyadmin commented 1 month ago

Current sync functionality only sync feed subscriptions. If user uses Feeder on more than one medium (e.g. multiple phones or phone and tablets) interchangeably, no way to continue reading from one device to another.

Use Case: Using Feeder on both personal and work phones Use Case: Using Feeder on phone during the day and use on tablet while at night in bed.

If I have a total of 2000 feeds and I finished 300 feeds, it's difficult to scroll through the 2000 feeds on another device just so I can pinpoint where exactly did I stop so as to continue reading the remaining 1700 without using the same device.

Hope read progress and to a lesser extent, block list can also be sync between Feeders on multiple devices.

spacecowboy commented 1 month ago

Sync feature does actually sync read status.

but if you have many feeds you may run into the buffer limit (1000 items)

privacyadmin commented 1 month ago

Thanks and noted on the correction on the buffer limit. Personally the above numbers was a gross underestimation and was for demonstration purpose as I usually have 7000 to 10000+ feeds (with about 1000+ new feeds daily) and the problem gets magnified when I try to find where I last stopped on the previous device.

Hope this sync issue (for me at least) can get resolved someday.

Thanks and appreciate your work on making a good RSS reader

spacecowboy commented 1 month ago

I see.

I think Feeder in general has problems scaling to so many feeds. I'm surprised you find that it works :)

privacyadmin commented 1 month ago

It does, just that syncing is quite slow once above a certain mark. I had assumed it was due to my devices being Pixels (7 Pro, 8 Pro 9 Pro, Tablet) which aren't well known for their performance.

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