I do think it should be a preference, tho maybe hidden by ... • Aaron Parecki

EdwardHinkle https://github.com/EdwardHinkle • Feb 25
Awesome! Great to hear other areas where this has worked well. Do you have any thoughts between it just applying to channels and it applying to the posts? What does your IRC client do?

(Originally published at: https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/02/25/5/reply/)

I do think it should be a preference, tho maybe hidden by default is okay. The trick is once the channels without new content are hidden, you have to have a way to quickly show them again in case you want to be able to look at old content again.

As for the posts: Slack, IRC clients, as well as Twitter, show all the posts, not just the unread ones. I don't think I personally would use the "show only new posts" feature except in certain cases such as when I suspect there might be some old unread posts that have been buried somehow. I prefer to have some visual indicator about whether a post has been read rather than hiding it completely. In either case, you'd need a quick way to toggle between showing all posts vs showing unread posts.

Portland, Oregon, USA

Sun, Feb 25, 2018 10:48am -08:00

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Eddie Hinkle eddiehinkle.com
  
  Here is an example of Reeder. There is actually a tab bar on the bottom that allows for switch between starred, unread and all. While I don’t know that I want to take up the tab bar space with it, having some simple toggle like this is nice, I think.
  
  I think you’re right though. This toggle should only affect the channels. The posts should be done through an timeline filter (where you can filter more than just the read/unread status)
  
  Sun, Feb 25, 2018 9:22am -05:00

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