Comments on: Google Reader’s Inverted Unread Checkbox

By: Stephen Duncan

Stephen Duncan — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:04:20 +0000

When I go to a folder (or feed or tag), and I click on “Keep unread”, it does not uncheck itself as long as I’m on that folder. However, once I leave that folder, and then go back to it, it unchecks the “Keep unread” when I scroll past the item.

By: jmdesp

jmdesp — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:31:21 +0000

@Stephen : What do you mean it still auto-marks ? Indeed with that change once I’ve checked “keep it unread”, it will not uncheck by itself, and stays unread even if i reopen the item several time

By: Stephen Duncan

Stephen Duncan — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:03:55 +0000

I don’t seem to have that in my Reader view at the moment, but I imagine the change is to support a feature I’ve been waiting on for a long time (in fact, I’m still a Bloglines user because of it, though that may change now). When it was the other way, it wasn’t sticky; you could mark it unread, but then it would be marked read again when you scrolled past it. Keep unread means keep it unread until I explicitly click to say I’ve read it. This was called “keep as new” in the original Bloglines, and is called “pin” in the Bloglines Beta.

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Nevermind, I do have the feature. And it’s kind of what I said above. “Keep unread” is sticky while your scrolling on that section, but it still auto-marks as read when you click back on the section. Still not good enough to get me to use Google Reader. But it’s still a functionality change, not just a random inversion of the old functionality.

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:02:44 +0000

I got confused a little bit as well. I kept clicking it for a little while wondering what the hell is wrong with this checkbox. Only then I’ve noticed the changed caption.