The new android app seems to have changed in a few ways. My particular annoyance is about the new ‘mark (newer|older) as read’. In older versions this was simply ‘mark previous as read’ which did exactly what I want. Now I need to carefully look at my ordering of the feed before I can decide whether I need to use older or newer.
Furthermore, when using those, now the read items are immediately removed from the list which
- removes all options for backing out of that decision, even if it was accidentally
- the scroll position is not properly adjusted. When a bunch of items get removed from the top of the list, the scroll position is still where it was before relative to the start of the list and I have to scroll all the way up to continue reading where I was