Auto refresh, finally
At the beginning I decided to not implement auto refresh since it can distract from reading and distract free reading is one of my top priorities at BazQux. That's why post time and message buttons are in the far top right corner and simple thin line used to separate posts instead of heavy box filled with buttons. I believe that RSS readers are for reading and shouldn't focus on form over function.
But many people have requested an auto refresh. Some people even thought that BazQux doesn't update feeds. So I changed my opinion and did what you've asked ;)
Counters aren't blinking on update so it's still not so much distracting.
And some more:
- "Mark all as read" now refreshes articles list to show new posts (if any) appeared since you selected the feed.
- Selecting feed/folder/latest shows you all new posts instead of only those appeared before last page refresh (this can slowdown selecting large folders a bit).
- "r" keyboard shortcut now refreshes unread counters of all subscriptions and reloads currently selected feed.
Hope you'll like today's update.
Next thing planned is feeds reordering.
8 comments:
(September 22, 2013)
yes, thank you! BazQux is great, and I use it multiple times a day. Glad you're there!
(September 23, 2013)
Thanks for the update! I like this feature.
When the Google Reader page has not updated until they had the focus.
Had another tab in the foreground and switched to Google Reader, you could see thanks to an unobtrusive animation, the site to which new feeds have been added.
The online page share also uses a technique in which it is determined whether the current tab is currently in the foreground.
If the tab is not there in the foreground, the 30-second countdown will not continue.
(September 23, 2013)
I'll probably implement animation on tab focus. Although not going to implement it when the tab is active since it can be too distracting.
(September 23, 2013)
Thanks, that's nice, but the feature I'm REALLY waiting for is full keyboard control of feed selection.
I'm still hitting Shift-N to go to the next feed after all these months, and nothing's happening.
(September 23, 2013)
Notcompatible posted ... "If the tab is not there in the foreground, the 30-second countdown will not continue"
What is that ? Is there an explanation somewhere about it ?
(September 23, 2013)
I'm planning to implement it. Probably in the next month.
(September 23, 2013)
He meant time counters in upload/download services which works only when tab is active.
richrecruiter (September 22, 2013)
Thank you very much. Keep up the good work!