Has anyone noticed the 'track changes' coming through?

[Madox]

The strike-through when the RSS post gets updated, is it a Newsblur feature?

[Scott Fringer]

Yes it is. Know you can turn it off in the Web interface; not sure if that carries too mobile clients.

On Jul 12, 2013 7:12 PM, "Madox" <mado...@gmail.com> wrote:

The strike-through when the RSS post gets updated, is it a Newsblur feature?

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[Madox]

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• Articles can show corrections within the text, using strike-through and colors, whenever NewsBlur had fetched an earlier version of a story and then later a changed version. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that feature in another news reader.

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  From : http://news.kynosarges.org/2013/05/28/from-google-reader-to-newsblur/

  OK answered my own question :P

  For Travis if he wants to give the option to hide it because it can get confusing as if the strikethroughs are part of the article and look like deliberate emphasis/sarcasm sometimes... https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues/292

[Alan J Robertson]

Yep it can be switched off on the website but not yet on the API.

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[Travis Tabbal]

Yeah, I saw Samuel's message. The thing is, we don't really parse the html like that. I'll look at it, I think I can do most of it with regex.

It's an interesting feature, but I think overall it's more trouble than it's worth. I wish they would just add a flag to the API to turn it off.

[MattW]

Thank you for mentioning this, i did notice a lot more text with strike-thru and wondered about it... Good to know that's what this was. Now to go find out how to turn it off ;)

Matt

P.s. also, thanks for trying to replicate my 'mark all as read' issue, strange.... but ignorable

[Madox]

On Saturday, 13 July 2013 15:14:16 UTC+10, Travis Tabbal wrote:

Yeah, I saw Samuel's message. The thing is, we don't really parse the html like that. I'll look at it, I think I can do most of it with regex.

I now feel really silly for missing "travistabbal commented" or failing to link travistabbal and Travis Tabbal :P

It's an interesting feature, but I think overall it's more trouble than it's worth. I wish they would just add a flag to the API to turn it off. 

Definitely, in the old Google Reader the feed would stay as the first fetched and you notice differences when you went to the target webpage.  I'm curious - what are the reasons for a refetch?  Why does Newsblur bother at all to refetch if Google never bothered... I rather see the original copy in almost all instances.

[Mark Otway]

Well, often bloggers update their stories to add extra info or correct mistakes once they've been published. They also retract dumb or stupid things. I like it, as it means you don't miss out on those dumb things.

See the recent exchange on twitter between Marco Arment and Samuel Clay (Newsblur's owner) for an example.

[Samuel Clay]

Yup, track changes is one of NewsBlur's distinguishing features. Takes a ton of processing work to accomplish, too. But it's what I wanted in my reader, so I built it.

[Alan J Robertson]

Thanks very much for developing Newsblur, Samuel - a total saviour for post-Google Reader!  I can appreciate the benefits of tracked changes but is there any possibility of having an API call that would allow this to be displayed/not displayed (as there is in the web interface)?

Cheers

Alan :-)

[Samuel Clay]

Unfortunately not, as it would break a bunch of existing clients. The CSS for del's and ins's seems to work fine everywhere else, including the official NewsBlur Android app. 

[Mark Otway]

Hey Samuel,

Nice work. And great to see the combination of Newsblur and NewsRob - oops, I mean GrazeRSS. Awesome combo.

[Mariano Kamp]

Travis, 

I don't think it would be necessary to change the content during import. The CSS could be added directly when displaying the article as is done for the dark/light theme.

https://github.com/marianokamp/newsrob/blob/master/app/src/com/newsrob/activities/ShowArticleActivity.java#L1443

I love seeing the diffs. If you want to make it an option, think about what other option you could get rid of to keep the universe balanced ;)

[Travis Tabbal]

Thanks Mariano. I'll keep that in mind. I wouldn't want any unbalanced universes on my conscience. :)

I thought I remembered seeing some CSS being injected in there. Thanks for the link.