Updated articles
A question regarding updated/edited articles.
How are they handled after marked as read? Do they reappear as unread again or will I never know about the changes unless I stumble over them again or check them manually?
Alex
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Articles are just updated and do not marked as unread.
Most article updates are typos or changed views/likes/comments count, or even some tracking URL change (completely invisible). For each two new posts there is an updated one.
To not overwhelm users with unnecessary information updates are not displayed.
If there is some post where you expect interesting updates you could try to star it and check manually.
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Thank you for the information about Feedbin. Perhaps I could add something like this, although I can't say when I get to it. It worth to open separate UserVoice feature request for this so people could vote for it.
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Billy
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To add to this, Feedbin in some way is able to serve updated articles (in a separate "Updated" category) that have only meaningful edits 99% of the time.
I suppose it shows them only if the word count difference is beyond a certain extent and excludes views/likes/comments count, that as you rightly says would only be an annoyance to the reader. Moreover, it highlights the differences between the previous and the latest version (you can choose to see the latest version or the one with the highlighted differences, to be precise).
Do you think you could add something like that in the future?