I recently subscribed to the New York Times RSS feed (https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml).
For the most part it works fine, but occasionally there is an entry that appears different from the others. Instead of the full multiline entry, there is an indented single-line entry. This one is “Judge agrees to drop charges against officers […]”
Clicking on this entry results in strange scrolling behavior where it seems to be trying to load more and more articles into the window. I don’t know what it’s trying to do, but this behavior doesn’t make sense to me. Reloading the page fixes it.
Update: actually it seems to result in a weird state that reloading doesn’t fix. The same news article appears three times in a row, in the collapsed state, followed by an uncollapsed, normal entry, followed by another collapsed entry.
I would love it if you could post a screenshot of this happening. I don’t know exactly what you’re describing, though.
Here’s an example from a different feed (https://scottaaronson.blog/)
You see the second item for “Turing Award Goes to Inventors…”? I never used to see items rendered in that style (indented) until recently, and bad things happen when I click on one of those.
In this case, it jumped to the New York Times feed and started scrolling until I reloaded the page.
That’s the new clustering feature. The indented story and the one above it are reporting the same news (Turing award).
Yep exactly. You can turn it off in Manage > Preferences > Story Clustering.
Okay, thanks, I will turn it off. But it sure seems buggy.
Buggy in that it didn’t find the story? It’s likely because you have it hidden. I should change it so that after paging reaches the story clustering date range (set to five days) it switches to search.
I mean that the animated UI behavior when clicking on a clustered link is surprising and unexpected to someone who doesn’t already know what it does. It’s so unintuitive that it doesn’t appear to be doing anything useful; it looks like it’s just a bug.
