Any plans for "Undo action" button for incorrectly mark all as read on a feed or folder?

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Any plans for an "undo action" button for when you incorrectly mark as read on a feed or folder?

This would be awesome.

It would be cool, if it had a time delay of let's say 5 seconds, if you failed to reach the button in time, then you would be stuck with your decision forever and ever. Perhaps this way the service wouldn't slow down, and us clumsy people would have a chance to make amends for our lack of motor skills.
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7 months ago
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Hmm, that is an interesting idea. The implementation would be to simply not send the mark-read action to the server until the "undo period" has expired, which is around 5-10 seconds. I like that idea. I may build this, but are there others who also want it? I'm not sure how I would implement the notification that you can undo what is an extremely common action.
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Please do this. I just blew away 60 odd stories by accident that I was leaving unread till I had time to actually read them. 
7 months ago
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You could have a small colored bar on the top of feed list or stories list that says undo for that time set. Another way could be adding a colored button next to the mark as read button that only appears for those 5-10 seconds.

Thanks for the reply.
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That would indeed be a great idea!
GMail supports "Undo Send" (in Labs I think), you can look at that for more details. It simply says "Message sent. Undo" where the "Undo" is clickable. After 5 seconds, the "Undo" disappears and it says just "Message sent".
3 weeks ago
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I'm all for this as well :)
Have had few few unlucky slip-ups with short-cuts causing a feed to be marked as read. Would be nice with a small grace period.
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