Fading

I’ve found that there are just a ton of articles that I can’t really read. I took a look at the older unread articles and most are either not that interesting to me or about something I already read. I figure those articles can just go away and I’ll never know or care, so I built in articles fading.

I’ve added an integer field to my feeds table so I can individually define the time to live for the articles in each feed or 0 for forever. I also added a field to each article to flag if it was faded or not for reporting.

Now a script runs nightly to fade articles and keep my unread list trimmed down. This keeps me from having to check feeds with a large number of unread articles and manually clearing them out.