I'm seeing unread items in NewsBlur change to read after 14 days of sitting in a feed, much as Google Reader would mark them read after 30. Is there a way to turn this behaviour off? I want persistent counts. NewsBlur already has a manual tool to unclutter feeds.
Posted 8 years ago
Great news, guys, check out NewsBlur's Twitter feed. Samuel, thank you very much for implementing the 30-day sunset period!
Thanks for the advisory etcn. This is awesome news, thanks Samuel!
Awesome! I'm now a premium subscriber, like promised. The impact on the response time has been zero so far, let's hope it doesn't grow over the next 15 days!
Now... 30 days is a start, and if the response time is unaffected hopefully the only major cost for Samuel is storage (or RAM, if it's all sitting there). So how about a pay-for feature to bring this up to 60 or 90 days? I'll upgrade.
Quote from Jon L, which I fully agree with:
> 90 days would be amazing. 60 days great. 30 days, adequate.
Now... 30 days is a start, and if the response time is unaffected hopefully the only major cost for Samuel is storage (or RAM, if it's all sitting there). So how about a pay-for feature to bring this up to 60 or 90 days? I'll upgrade.
Quote from Jon L, which I fully agree with:
> 90 days would be amazing. 60 days great. 30 days, adequate.
Is this real? When does this actually take effect?
Samuel Clay, Official Rep
Well, the migration has finished and so I'm just waiting for a good time to mess with everybody's unread counts. Thing is, this will force a site-wide unread recount, and that'll take time. NewsBlur will run during the migration, but everybody using the site for the N hours (N = 12 is my guess) that it takes, their unread counts might be wildly incorrect. Not the worst thing, since it will only go up, not down, and if it takes a few hours to go up from 0 or anything else, you won't notice. So I might even be able to do this on a weekday somebody very soon. I have a bunch of updates going out (offline, story tagging, 30-day unreads) and I want to coordinate them for next week.
Great to hear Samuel. Thanks so much for your hard work and dedication!
i really, really really appreciate this. thank you samuel!
Does the sunset-setting explain why posts that are 'new' but backdated by over the sunset-length don't show up as unread?
(I have my own blog, and I sometimes fall behind and post things that happened over a month ago using the old date, and those posts don't show up as unread.)
(I have my own blog, and I sometimes fall behind and post things that happened over a month ago using the old date, and those posts don't show up as unread.)
Samuel Clay, Official Rep
Yes. The story date is what the 14d/30d unread expiration hits.
As one of your harshest critics about this for the past few months, I just want to say THANK YOU for making this happen! Note the change in mood. :)
I'll wait a while before bugging you about 60 days.
30 days only for premium, right?
Yup; doing it for everyone killed performance. http://blog.newsblur.com/post/6145169...
