Miniflux entry order
puttering wednesdayI’ve patched Miniflux to show entries in a different order.
RSS is convenient, but most readers have simple sorts — oldest first, newest first, and that’s it. What I wanted was a sort that does not flood my timeline with feeds that are updated often, and thus prevents me from missing posts in rarely-updated feeds, allows to work through backlogs of newly added feeds, &c.
So I took a hatchet to Miniflux, and now sort by “recency in feed”: first it shows the most recent post for each feed, then the second-most-recent for each feed, and so on. So a new post from Bartosz Ciechanowski will always be near the top, and there isn’t too much Metafilter in my life. I can fearlessly subscribe to high-traffic feeds now.
Not done neatly, the result isn’t always intuitive (sort order changes on feed updates; I update rarely), and likely does not work in some cases. So I’m not ready to publish. Maybe I’ll think on it, and decide how to integrate better.
Matklad’s approach is simpler, and similarly equalizes the treatment of high- and low-frequency feeds. I think it’s too simple. Note how the bottom of their blogroll page is a bunch of posts from 2022.