"Advanced" sorting of the articles

[Zibc]

I am using this app almost since the beginning and I love it but I still find one thing missing : a smarter way to sort the news.

At the moment, it is only possible to sort the items by dates, or increasing or decreasing.
Would it be an option to add the read status to that ?
For instance : sorting the new items for oldest to news, and then, sort the read item for newest to oldest.
This way, you can see the oldest newest news first.

What do you think ?

[BernhardPosselt]

I dont think this is very commonly used and you can already do that today by enabling the Show all articles checkbox in the settings. You can also override this ordering on per feed basis.

Can I ask why you want to do that? What do you expect to gain from such an additional ordering option? Do you think it's easier to find older read articles? In that case you want #185

[BernhardPosselt]

Closing because of inactivity

[Zibc]

sorry for giving additional info "late"

But here is the reason in more details:
I use the app mostly to follows news published on various websites. for some of them, I get around 100 new items per day.
If I follow everything on a daily basis, multiple times a days, then everything is ok, I've got around 30-40 titles to go through I read only some of them in more details (the case for newspaper related to what's happening in my home country)

The problems comes after a couple of days without the possibility to check the news (internet restrictions, no time to check it because of workload ... various reasons).
Then you get the newest news before ... which can sometimes be difficult to follow beacause you miss the items pulished earlier ... do you follow me ?

So, to me, displaying the oldest unread item makes sense and help makes sense out of a series of items. And therefore, my post.

I am not sure though how you sort the items, if it's directly out the database or an additional sorting made once you fetch them. in the later case, then it might be easier (I'm not a sql wizard).
I have to take a closer at how exactly this mechanism work, and, if I've got time, I may try write something (won't happen soon, I'm still using 7.0.3 and don't plan to switch to 8 before the first update ...)

Does that make the reason a bit more clear ?

[BernhardPosselt]

Yep :)

The solution is the following: Click the settings area and tick Reverse ordering (oldest on top). This sorts the oldest items first and you can read your feeds after you look back into the feed reader after some time.

[BernhardPosselt]

Basically this problem is handled by already built in functionality :)

[Zibc]

Close but not close enough since this reverse ordering holds for all articles ...

Ok, now I see, you also display the unread articles only. in that case, yes it fixes the problem!

But what if you also want to display the read items as well ?? then you have to scrooooollllll for some time! (I display all the articles, sometimes I go through articles I already read!)

[BernhardPosselt]

Normally you want to read unread articles. If you also want to read read articles yeah, its perfectly fine that you have to scroll because they should appear in order, otherwise its very hard to find read articles.

Why do you want to read read articles? Do you know that you can star articles?

[Zibc]

I do use star articles that I find useful, but I do not star items which I may re-read since I do not know that in advance ...

This kind of things happen when I, first, read something, then later during the day or day after, someone talks about that same thing and sometime I may refer to that old article (reason why I display read articles as well!)

[BernhardPosselt]

Ok, this is definitely #185, not a separate use case ;)