Sorting by publication date #5865
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I installed today freshRSS and added my feeds, but I'm facing this problem: the feeds are first grouped and then sorted by date. E.g.:
What I want is to have all in cronological order:
If I click the "older/newest first" button the situation doesn't change, feeds are inverted, but always grouped. Here is a short video recording of the issue. Am I missing something? |
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Hello, The order you see is chronological, just the chronology of when articles have been discovered/received (similar to what e-mail clients are doing), not the date the articles advertise (the advertised date is not a robust sorting criteria as dates might very well be a long time in the past or in the future, as in common in the case of academic articles, book publications, events, chapters of science fiction, etc.) A longer explanation of the rationale for the current behaviour can be see on e.g.
And there is a plan to customise sorting (on different criteria including advertised date): |
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That is a (longer term) goal, yes. |
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Hello,
This behaviour occurs when adding new feeds one at a time (importing several feeds by OPML mitigates the issue).
This is by design at the moment, and the apparent problem becomes reduced when feeds gets regularly refreshed.
The order you see is chronological, just the chronology of when articles have been discovered/received (similar to what e-mail clients are doing), not the date the articles advertise (the advertised date is not a robust sorting criteria as dates might very well be a long time in the past or in the future, as in common in the case of academic articles, book publications, events, chapters of science fiction, etc.)
A longer explanation of the rationale for the curr…