Returning to All Stories always starts from the beginning of the list on Android

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NewsBlur’s behavior on Android changed some months ago (6 months? 9 months? 1 year?) and I’ve been hoping the problem would be corrected. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been.

Whenever I return to ‘All Stories’ from reading a story on my Android phone, I’m back at the beginning of ‘All Stories’ and I have to scroll down to the story I just read. Needless to say, this is annoying, particularly since it’s new (for some definition of ‘new’) behavior, and it gets progressively worse the more I run through the ‘All Stories’ list.

I’ve tried to compensate by selecting "Mark older stories read’, but this doesn’t work perfectly. Although I have my read filter set to show only unread stories, after marking older stories as read, ‘All Stories’ still shows some unread stories. What I expected to happen is for all stories older than the one currently selected one to be marked as read and for ‘All Stories’ to display only unread stories.

Perhaps there is a setting I’m not aware of that prevents restarting at the top of the current list of ‘All Stories’ …? Or is there some technique that I can use to avoid having to scroll down from the beginning after I’ve read a story … ?

Otherwise, I think these two behaviors are bugs.

Thanks.

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I’ve noticed this too. It’s an open issue and I think you should chime in here: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues/629

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My workflow is exactly the same as yours except for the last item: my list is not scrolled down. I restart at the beginning. I usually have less than 100 stories in All Stories; average around 50.

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The only reason I’m interested in this use case is as a workaround to having to scroll down to the current story in All Stories when returning from reading that story.

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There’s a claim in github that this bug is fixed but I still see it in 4.2.1. It is beyond annoying.

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What device do you have? It shouldn’t be happening, but some older devices clear the story list from cache while you’re reading.

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2nd generation Moto X running Lollipop.  Can’t get much newer than that.

It doesn’t always happen, but often enough to be bothersome.

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Daniel, couldn’t we just store a pointer to the last active story and just scroll to that on every load of the story list, clearing that pointer when returning to the feed list?