This is awesome! Reading the announcement as a Premium user I was a little nervous about this feature not being able to toggle off (I’m going to try it, but it’s important to me that I’d be able to turn it off if I did not want to keep using it).
I do see in my settings I can do that – this is great, and thank you for not forcing a feature as is the way of our times. I just have a nitpick on the announcement that made me initially suspect I wouldn’t have this control:
Premium Archive subscribers get full control over clustering: toggle it on or off, choose between single-line and expanded preview styles, and automatically mark duplicate stories as read when you read the representative story. Clustering is enabled by default for archive subscribers.
Premium and free users see clustered stories on popular feeds where cluster data already exists. You’ll see clusters most often on widely-subscribed news feeds. To unlock clustering settings and get clustering across all your feeds, upgrade to Premium Archive.
Just reading this as-is, perhaps with a pessimistic mindset, this implies (to me at least) that control on/off is a feature/setting only Premium Archive subscribers get since it’s mentioned there but not below.
I know this is a nitpick and easily enough I can just see if the setting is there myself, but I am pedantic about communication lol. A strawman edit:
Story clustering is available to all NewsBlur users on the web. If a feed you subscribe to has cluster data, you’ll see grouped stories automatically – no configuration needed. Clustering is now enabled by default for all users, and can be toggled off or back on in your account Preferences.
Premium Archive subscribers get full control over clustering:
toggle it on or off,choose between single-line and expanded preview styles, and automatically mark duplicate stories as read when you read the representative story.Clustering is enabled by default for archive subscribers.Premium and free users see clustered stories on popular feeds where cluster data already exists. You’ll see clusters most often on widely-subscribed news feeds. To unlock clustering settings and get clustering across all your feeds, upgrade to Premium Archive.
(Emphasis added to my edits.)
BTW, thanks for giving Premium users access to this feature where the data already exists. Very cool and probably a good way to upsell us eventually too 