Avoid reading page spam when creating feeds

[rho]

Title:
Avoid reading page spam when creating feeds

Area:
feeds

Summary:
When you first create a feed account, the system reads all the entries from the RSS/Atom feed and vomits them up over your reading page. This is annoying and shouldn't happen.

Description:
The first time that a feed gets read and the feed account gets populated should be special-cased so that you don't end up having your reading page spammed when you create a feed. I'd suggest that the simplest way of doing this would be to have all but the three most recent entries marked with the date out of order/don't show on reading pages option. That way the entries would still be there so they wouldn't be picked up subsequently, but they wouldn't be spammy and annoying.

Poll #2198 Avoid reading page spam when creating feeds

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45

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Should be implemented as-is.
34 (75.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (6.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (8.9%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (8.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[melannen]

I know that sometimes a feed gets "stuck" for a few days, and when that happens, I'd like to at least know if there were skipped posts.

on the other and, the spam as it's catching up is annoying.

So, I'm ambivalent. But certainly having it when a feed is created would be good.

[feathertail]

How about just the most recent entry? Three new entries throughout your reading page is pretty spammy as-is.

[queenbarwench]

I like this. (I particularly like your description in the summary - v accurate)

[kyrielle]

I like this a lot, though the "just one post" would work for me also. I do know that getting 10-20 posts is a bit too much....

My understanding is this is just for feed creation, not when one fails to read and then recovers, or if a feed actually posts 10 posts in an hour or something. As long as that's accurate - it's just for creation time - I would REALLY like to have this.

[pauamma]

My main qualm with that is that you're making that decision for other early readers of the syn account, not just you (you being the creator)

[triadruid]

This.

[msilverstar]

Maybe just the feed item titles in the first batch? That would make the process easier while still offering access to what's available.

[florahart]

This is a late response, mostly because I missed it the first time and was just coming to make the same suggestion, heh.

Another commenter objects that this makes the decision for everyone, but for heaven's sake, it's eeeeeeasy to just go to wherever the actual site is and read back--which I think you have to do anyway if you want to get more than the most recent however-long the syndication thing goes back.

Why yes, I did just create a feed and get spammed and become annoyed by it for the I don't know how manyth time...