Add Recent Posts Counter to Title

[andrewgross]

Add a counter to the tab title that displays the number of unread posts since the last time you focused the tab. Similar to how twitter and gmail have

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[shoebox639]

This can be done. So the trigger for a 'new' link becoming 'old' is it showing up for you? In any list?

I think a good way to implement that is to give you an indication whether you've actually clicked and read an article. So that unread stuff pop out a little more.

The thing with twitter is that it assumes you've consumed the content when it's loaded. But I can't really do that here because you actually have to click into the link to actually fully consume it.

[shoebox639]

Here's the specs which I'm currently thinking:

• Show some indication whether a user has read a link whenever that link is displayed.
• Show a counter on every page (or just user home page) to see how many are unread.
• Add a "Mark as Read" or "Not interested" option, that'll mark it as if you've read it, but doesn't actually register a read. On the front end all you'd see is the link marked read, however, the owner of that link won't see that you've read it.

[andrewgross]

the problem is, what if you arent interested in the quick blurb for the link, you cant assume users are going to click every link, even if they have fairly good filtration by only following certain people. This could lead to them always having some large number of "unread" posts, which reduces incentive to view the page if you would have to click several pages back to find everything.

[andrewgross]

Potentially, you could implement a new link "decay", instead of just waiting for an impression, track clicks. However, if the link is now several pages back, just remove it from the title count and perhaps just include a button that just shows "Old unread links"

[shoebox639]

Firstly, I see a lot of people with hundreds or thousands unread messages in their inboxes, but they don't stop checking their emails. If they check it a couple of times a day, then they'll remember where they last left off.

This can also be fixed by keeping lists small and organized. I've suggested the abilities to have users create their own lists and each list would have rules on what shows up in that list. And I can display unread stuff based on those lists.

With enough people that you are following, there's no way you can sort through everything that everyone submitting, and you are not supposed to, it doesn't make sense to do it that way. So the onus is on you to organize the links from the people you follow into logical lists and prioritize.