Hello! New to Newsblur after trying a couple of different RSS apps over the last couple of days. I’m nearly sold, except the ‘mark as read’ feature feels either slightly broken or counterintuitive?
I want total control over what I mark as read - I only want it to happen when I right click > ‘Mark as read’.
However, I can’t seem to do this because when I open a story, clicking anywhere in that story window marks it as read, except on embedded story elements.
- For instance, on a YouTube story, clicking the background or header marks it as read, but not the video. I don’t want any of my left clicks to do anything, and I’m having to navigate cautiously to avoid the ‘mark as read’ system on the left click.
- I have the ‘Mark a story as read’ setting set to manual on keypress only, but that didn’t seem to do anything. I can’t imagine what else this setting is supposed to do except change this behaviour… so it feels broken?
- This also means that even trying to add a manual tag to a story using the floating window on the right counts as a click, so marks the story as read, which is very frustrating!
I can’t work out if I’m encountering a settings bug / conflict, missing a setting, or just will not get on with the intended use case for the ‘mark as read’ system, which for my needs is overbearing. For such a flexible tool, I’d be surprised if I can’t reduce the ‘mark as read’ behaviours to fully intentional user actions only, like right click > ‘mark as read’.
Please let me know if I’m missing something! I love everything else this tool has to offer but this ‘mark as read on click’ issue is a big hurdle for me! Thanks!
thanks!