The keyboard shortcut for “Mark all as read” (Shift-a) doesn’t seem to be working anymore when I’m viewing Everything unread.
It does work when I’m viewing just a folder of feeds. Also, going to the “Manage NewsBlur” button in the lower left corner and using the “Mark all as read” button there does work.
I tried seeing what Safari’s error console said when I hit shift-a, but after opening the console and trying to hit shift-a, Safari quit immediately (this actually happened twice—I thought I hit Cmd-q the first time by mistake).
This is intentional. You have to use the Mark All Stories as Read item under the Manage button. Otherwise users would accidentally mark all their stories as read.
Maybe a threshold? I commonly have a few thousand stories unread (I don’t have time to read them), so I wouldn’t want them all to wipe out accidentally. Folders are OK, though, so I’m not sure if other people feel this way. I considered a confirmation, but that’s kind of clunky.
Hm, I see what you mean… that would suck to accidentally lose everything (is there any way to undo this? Maybe that would provide a solution?). Although, since it requires a combination of keys, it probably isn’t as likely to be hit as just “a”.
A threshold might also work… if you have more than (blank) number unread, then pop up a confirmation window? Either that or some undo option might work.
The current requirement of having to go through the Manage button is a bit annoying though, I keep hitting shift-a (since I tend to view Everything).
Bingo, Karen. I’ll make it do that. And enter (as well as command/control+enter) does the work. But it will default to 1 day, not 0 days, so I’ll change that as well.
Ok, you got it. I added the Mark Everything as Read option/dialog to the iOS app. It’ll be in the next release, which is coming as soon as I finish the intelligence trainer. I predict within the next week I’ll have it submitted to Apple.