Group by feed

Hi! Long time without major new features. Time to break this bad habit ;)

As you can suspect I've added grouping of articles by feed. Some people prefer to read this way and it actually works quite well if you don't have too many high volume feeds.

You can separately enable grouping by feed for folders, latest stream, smart streams and starred or tagged items. Just go to feed menu and check "Group by feed" item:

And voila, you're going from this:

to this:

Feed titles stay on top while you're scrolling:

Nice!

And it's now possible to bulk unstar or untag items (from the feed menu or right-click menu):

It's useful to remove those old starred items that you won't look into anyway or remove tag that you no longer need (but beware — there is no undo!).

Other features that are ready for quite some time but were too small to blog about:

Embedded Tweets and Instagram photos are shown properly in posts.
Search system stability is finally fixed (there were several outages due to it being overloaded).
Added searching by URL. Use link:example.com to find articles containing specified link or item_link:example.com/post1 to find articles that links to specified URL (ignoring article text).
Multiple images, videos and quoted tweets are supported in Twitter feeds.
Fixed issue with ad-blockers halting reader on posts about advertising.

Next thing planned is improved sharing.

Happy reading!

18 comments:

Anonymous (March 5, 2016)

Is this function active yet? Because 'group by feed' does not show up in my feed menu.

Vladimir Shabanov (March 5, 2016)

You should refresh page first and then select Latest or some folder. 'Group by feed' doesn't show when the feed is selected (since there is nothing to group).

Anonymous (March 5, 2016)

Well, i open bazqux.com -> 'Latest' shows up -> i click on feed menu which shows 'show all, sort by newest, sort by oldest, public feed'. That's it. If i select a folder which holds several feeds with some unread feed entries, the feed menu then shows up like above plus 'rename and delete folder'.

Anonymous (March 5, 2016)

Very nice, thank you very much, love it!

David Enzel (March 5, 2016)

Works as described for me. This is a very nice feature. It also works quickly, which amazes me as I now have over 1,800 unread items. Thank you.

Vladimir Shabanov (March 5, 2016)

Sorry, it wasn't released on all servers. Please refresh the page and try again.

Anonymous (March 5, 2016)

Yay! Works great now, thanks :-) Awesome

Indelible Inkstain (March 5, 2016)

Fantastic work. Many thanks for the improvements of an already great service!

Anonymous (March 5, 2016)

I wonder if there is a way to jump to a certain feed group in starred items?

Anonymous (March 5, 2016)

I would suggest that a keyboard short cut equivalent to 'next item' (j/n) cut could solve that, e.g. double j stroke (jj or nn) for next folder in 'group mode' and double k (kk or pp) for previous folder.

Dave Marra (March 5, 2016)

Thanks! This is great! Any plans to alphabetize articles (sort by article subject) within a subscription or folder? I subscribe to a lot of different feeds, many of which post articles with the same exact subject, such as press releases, etc. Alphabetizing articles (sort by article subject) would be a huge help. Thanks.

Daniel Gonzales (March 6, 2016)

Instagram photos are not showing properly in posts. See link - http://prnt.sc/ac003u. Do you need further information to research let me know?

Vladimir Shabanov (March 6, 2016)

It's not yet possible and probably won't work too well (there can be a lot of items in feed to load and scroll). I'm planning to make Reeder like unread/all/starred switch where it will be possible to select feed and show starred items only for this feed.

Vladimir Shabanov (March 6, 2016)

It's good feature but I can't say when I will implement it. Internally reader is focused on time based sorting so it's not easy to make subject based.

Vladimir Shabanov (March 6, 2016)

It works only for embedded photos (that use Instagram embed HTML code). Links are not processed.

Anonymous (March 8, 2016)

Regarding navigating to feeds in starred items: How about just having a folder tree under "Starred Items" in the folder column, just like under "Latest"?

Vladimir Shabanov (March 9, 2016)

One more embedded folder tree will look more complex than the same folder tree filtered by presence of starred items. So I prefer to implement Reeder-like switch.

Anonymous (March 9, 2016)

Sounds like a good idea, thanks!