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  1. Allow me to search all the way back.

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    AdminThe Old Reader (Developer, The Old Reader) responded

    This is for the most part now available with Premium accounts. We store posts up to 6 months old, and the title and body of the post will be in the search index for premium subscribers.

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    GnorthernGnome commented  · 

    @The Old Reader: That's pretty much exactly what I'm suggesting. So one string holds the "last read on" date through to today's date and another simply counts the number of posts. The actual colour highlighting within the website (so the green bar to the left of unread feeds) will more than likely be taking place client side anyway, it just needs to then highlight everything from the "last read on" date until the current article/date. I do realise if I log in and read the latest article it might reset the counter and lose all that data, which people would be understandably annoyed about, however that's why I suggested having split date ranges or a vacation mode, so those that understand the issues with the feature can still utilise it.
    Hope that makes more sense? Again, would be intrigued to know if there are some major flaws in this way of doing things?

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    GnorthernGnome commented  · 

    Still believe this should be a key feature and although Premium does seem worthwhile for six months I would still prefer to pay a little more to get full data retention.
    I also understand the number one reason for doing this is saving server space, but can someone explain why you don't just save date ranges and an unread counter? That requires two integer strings per subscribed feed, plus two incremental counter loops. Yes, if people log in and fracture the date range it becomes trickier, but you could either have this as a work around for a "vacation mode" or pop-up a warning, or change it from x many articles to x many data ranges. Both methods = more retained data and happier customers, but maybe I'm missing something crucial with the database structure...

  2. Bulk Edit: Mark as Unread/Read/Highlight Multiple Items

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    GnorthernGnome commented  · 

    I actually had missed that, will definitely flag it, though still feel the more important is a "mark as unread" in bulk options, which would also be great!

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