While the browser based Newsblur site can aggregate duplicate RSS news stories under a single folder, the Newsblur Android App does not, resulting in multiple duplicate feeds…
In this case, I have two feeds nested under a single folder. As you can see from the screen shots, the web view of the entire folder shows one story, but the Android App shows two.
I’ll be honest, I’m quite surprised there’s a difference between web and android. There not only shouldn’t be, but unfortunately the way it is intended to work is to show the duplicates because they came from different feeds. So in fact Android has it correct and as soon as I’m back to work in a week I’ll try and figure out why.
But newsblur doesn’t offer any deduplication of stories unfortunately. Not yet and not until I can figure out a better heuristic for what constitutes a group or dupe of stories.
Is there any update? I am affected by the same issue and realizing after I plunked down the subscription money that the Android app does not meet my needs due to this issue, it’s just way too much duplication noise in my folder of news feeds, a huge time & energy suck; essentially I have to dig through 3 or 4 times the volume of deduplicated stories. It’s the whole reason I bought the subscription.
