I looked into your account and I can see what happened. Five feeds in your news folder had a “mark as read” action at 11:35 AM EST today, which pushed the read threshold forward past the stories you were saving. The affected feeds are:
- ColbertLateShow’s YouTube Videos (5 stories)
- The Intercept (8 stories)
- The Daily Show (8 stories)
- CSPAN’s YouTube Videos (1 story)
- Slate Magazine (74 stories)
This is why they also don’t show in Read Stories. When stories are marked read individually (by opening them), they show up in Read Stories. But when a batch “mark as read” moves the threshold forward, stories that fall behind it are treated as read without being individually tracked.
The stories are still in the database, they’re just hidden behind that read threshold. I’ve gone ahead and restored the unread state on those 5 feeds so the stories should reappear. Let me know if they’re back.
The most common cause of this is accidentally hitting “Mark all as read” on a folder or river view. If you use multiple devices or apps, it could have also come from another session. But shift+a will do it, as that keyboard shortcut is hooked up to mark feed as read.