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Should Feed Readers Count Unread Items?

calendar_today April 2, 2014 person Rogers Cadenhead domain rss

Brent Simmons, the developer of the NetNewsWire RSS reader, is questioning his decision to put an unread count next to each feed, reasoning that it encourages people to be too obsessive about reading every item: Instead of a dozen bookmarks, people had a hundred feeds. Or two hundred. Or two thousand.

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