Comment by pantulis
5 months ago
The key with RSS is curation, otherwise it stops being your "controlled feed". FOMO can make you add noisy feeds that basically are putting too much information that will dwarf the relevant feeds. In my case, I follow Hacker News and Slashdot which are ok but also thought it was a good idea to add "The Verge | All posts" to my feed reader and I find myself hitting "Mark all as read" continuosly. It's not The Verge's fault of course, it's my lack of strategy.
Agreed in the general. Though one useful feature in FreshRSS that I've made heavy use of (no idea if there are equivalents in other readers) is the ability to mark new entries in a feed as read immediately upon receiving them. Initially seemed counterintuitive when I first saw the option, but I've found it's actually quite useful for me. It allows for a separation of true feeds coming from a person that I typically will want to read and take manual action on. Or more shotgun feeds that are continuously putting out stuff that I will choose to dip into when I feel like it (HN front page or Slashdot being examples of that). Without the ever-increasing counter of unread articles to think about.
This is a great feature. And I found I can create a similar rule with Inoreader, thanks!