Periodical UI refreshes, and triggerable by pressing r.

[Zegnat]

This has come by on Twitter but wanted to add it as an issue here as well.

I have noticed that, leaving Feedbin open long enough, it does not (never?) reload my subscription list so I don’t see new posts coming in. Right now you have to reload the page by using the browser supplied reload or pressing the hamburger symbol.

I propose that on pressing the hamburger (or pressing the r key on my keyboard) Feedbin fetches new unread counts for my subscription list as well as refreshes the currently opened feed’s entries (i.e. refetching /feeds/###/entries).

In addition I believe the unread counts for my subscription list should be automatically refreshed every hour to every hour and a half. This means I don’t have to remember pressing r and I will still see updates albeit a little slower. (The entries panel should not automatically refresh because I might be reading it! Only refresh the entries panel on user interaction.)

Some people want this refresh to also refetch their feeds but to be honest this should not be neccessary. Feeds are already read every 20 minutes. The only problem is the UI not updating every 20 minutes.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Changed the issue title to make it more clear.

[ghost]

In addition to the refresh, RSS feeds appear to be an hour behind. What I mean by is it will take around an hour for a post to be published to a website until Feedbin displays it in your feed.

[cyraxx]

I like the way Google Reader does it: It refreshes occasionally while the page is open, and also refreshes immediately when you switch to the Reader tab.

[mlapida]

+1

[gnachman]

It should refresh like Reader did, but 'r' would be a big improvement over having to reload the whole page. +1

[geordish]

I agree that a periodic refresh would be ideal.

Blowing the scope of this discussion slightly, but it would be useful to make a pinned tab (Firefox, Chrome, Others?) glow when there is new article.

I've had a look around for information on how to actually do this, but can't seem to find any. I'm wondering if it is actually just the browser noticing it has more stuff to draw?

[Zegnat]

Blowing the scope of this discussion slightly, but it would be useful to make a pinned tab (Firefox, Chrome, Others?) glow when there is new article.

That’s not slightly, that’s actually blowing it a lot 😉

Browsers like Firefox and Chrome highlight a pinned tab on title change. Twitter is highlighted when it changes the page title from ‘Twitter’ to ‘(1) Twitter’. This can be discussed in #38: Unread count in Title Bar.

[kimptoc]

+1 on the periodic refresh facility

[wallyg]

+1

[joschug]

+1

[benoitgrelard]

Agreed, this is something I miss a lot coming from Google Reader too.
I like how Google Reader does refresh as I switch to the tab.

Typically, I have a pinned tab opened all day so this feature is very important to me.

Thanks.

[LimitlessPotential]

+1 I really want this keyboard shortcut

If its any help I'm clicking the "view unread button" in the left hand toolbar which refreshes the feeds (providing your in the unread only section, I'd assume clicking the "view all" button would do the same if you were in that section)

[Zegnat]

clicking the “view unread button” in the left hand toolbar […] refreshes the feeds

Oh that’s brilliant, I hadn’t noticed yet. Marking all as read also refreshes the feed panel, but is a lot less helpful.

[msroest]

Just want to notch a vote towards auto refreshes.

[msroest]

If anyone is interested I've written a quick chrome extension to do an auto refresh for feedbin.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feedbinme-autorefresh/lceaadjngoccggenabnemcfjifmkmfbf?hl=en&gl=CA

Any issues please report them here.
https://github.com/msroest/feedbin-extension/issues

[maxaudet]

+1 for a way to refresh manually, be it using a button or a keyboard shurtcut

[kierandelaney]

+1

[joewiz]

+1 for r

[sgomes]

Major +1 for auto-refresh

[ninjabreadman]

+1
For the moment I'm regularly clicking the Feedbin logo for refresh