I really miss the ‘Sort by Magic’ feature that was in Reader - there are some joke feeds that I don’t necessarily want to read through in order, just in a random way.
How I suggest this could work is sort by random with the 'Focus’ed at the top?
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So you effectively want the Unread view, except the focus stories bubbled to the top? You can use the +/- keyboard shortcuts to quickly switch from unread to focus, which might help. As for Google Reader’s magic sorting, I never trusted it and I think it worked off popularity, which doesn’t give it a whole lot of magic.
I have plans to introduce some discoverability into feeds, users, and stories, and this may be a part of it. But I wouldn’t expect that to launch for a while, as I have a few other higher priorities to get to. But it’ll happen eventually.
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Yes, sort of, but bundled into one view, in early morning pseudo SQL it would be something like:
SELECT RANDOMID,* FROM MYFEEDS
WHERE NOT READFLAG
ORDER BY FOCUSED,RANDOMID
Random rather than magic, but I never truly liked magic anyway as you’ve said 