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by James Robertson.
Original Post: How hard did he look?
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Well, that's how most feed readers work, and it's just plain wrong. Your software should, instead, find the new stuff since the last time you looked and show you that first.
The first aggregator, the one I wrote in 1999, did. And so did the one that's in Radio UserLand, and so does the NewsRiver aggregator that's built into the OPML Editor. Until yesterday these were the only aggregators that worked this way. (To be fair there are developers who say theirs do, but I've never seen one that actually does.)
Hmm. Every news aggregator I know of does this - the only thing that differs is the mechanism. In BottomFeeder, there's a toolbar button that will show only the new stuff, in either 2 pane or 3 pane mode (I've got users in both camps). There are similar features in every tool I've seen or had described to me. I understand that he likes newspaper mode, but the reality is, people's tastes differ on this.
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