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A synthetic GUID for all items, whether they have one or not
A Newspaper view mode at the feed level
The first one is a little technical. Atom items have an ID, and (most) RSS 2.0 items have a guid. These items are (in theory) unique enough to compare across feeds (although they likely shouldn't be trusted outside a given feed). In any event, not all items have them, so I've taken to lazily generating them using an md5 hash. I need to do some testing on this before I roll it out; I don't want to have the current "is it new/old" code cause issues for users, as it has in the past.
The other thing is a new view mode at the feed level (possibly at the folder level as well). The idea here is simple - say you turn this on (either globally, or for a given feed). When you select a feed, all of the relevant items get displayed in the html view as a set of "Newspaper stories". The relevant items would be either
All new
If no new, all today's
This is a view mode that some of the other aggregators out there support, so I've decided that it's a good idea to add. It's basically done (at least for the purposes of the dev stream, even though I haven't pushed it yet) - but I'm not going to add it as a non-dev feature until the 3.6 release. Any thoughts or comments are welcome.
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