One thing that really puzzles me in NetNewsWire's UI is the lack for an "all" category. There is "today", "all unread" but not simply "all". Heck, "today" could even be replaced by an "all" category and today's articles would simply appear at the top.
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@tclementdev @brentsimmons What do you think of this idea?
@pasi @tclementdev It could be a lot of data — an All group would have to fetch everything in the database(s), which could be just way too much, particularly for the users with thousands of feeds.
@brentsimmons @pasi I guess it could fetch identifiers only, then fetch full data on-demand as the user scrolls (loading worth of several pages each time).
@tclementdev @brentsimmons Yep some sort of incremental loading as you reach the bottom of currently loaded items.
@pasi @brentsimmons Even before reaching the bottom. I don't know how NNW is implemented but if I remember correctly Apple's collection views have APIs that can call you back at the best time for doing pre-fetching operations.
@tclementdev @pasi I’m sure there are technical ways to mitigate the performance and memory issues — but what has me curious is why you’d like this feature? This is the rare request that I don’t think I’ve seen before!
@brentsimmons @pasi I am sometimes looking for an article I've seen recently but it might not be in the "today" category anymore. There's no way for me to walk back my feed and find it.
