'published articles' feature seems superfluous

[rwd]

I wonder why there is a feature 'published articles'. Doesn't using labels accomplish basically the same thing? I.e. a custom feed based on a selection from other feeds?

[fox]

It was there before labels. It also has a separate chrome button like starred, unlike labels. Essentially it's the same thing, but the implementation is different.

[rwd]

Wouldn't it be an idea to deprecate it? It would make the UI cleaner and less ambiguous.

[fox]

How is it ambiguous? Do you know what this word means?

Edit: you can hide both the toggle button and the feed with user css.

[rwd]

Ambiguous wasn't the right word. But it sounded good. In this case multiple things (features) have the same meaning, in a way that is (I suspect) not obvious to users.

[jdelamater99]

Add either of these to the Custom CSS in preferences to hide the one you don't want.

Starred

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/* hide Starred icon and category */
img.markedPic, #dijit__TreeNode_4 {
   display: none;
   }


Published

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/* hide Published icon and category */
img.pubPic, #dijit__TreeNode_5 {
   display: none;
   }


[rwd]

Thanks. I know how to customize the ui, but it was just a suggestion to remove the feature entirely.

[justauser]

I use publish and what is nice if the single click to set/unset it, especially on the android client.

[jdelamater99]

It might help someone else out then.

[ZeGuigui]

Don't!

Starred and published articles are two different notions and I use both with different granularities.

I "star" items that I need to keep like in bookmarks. I use "publish" to send my favorite reeds to "followers" through a RSS feed and a gadget to update my website!

[rwd]

If you would use a label 'published', or 'starred', and possibly change the web/android interface to toggle it on/off with a single click, the result is the same: a public rss feed (or more than one) that you can use in a gadget, and an item in the treemenu.

[fox]

No guys let's remove it because labels and cleaner UI.

[fox]

If you would use a label 'published', or 'starred', and possibly change the web/android interface to toggle it on/off with a single click, the result is the same: a public rss feed (or more than one) that you can use in a gadget, and an item in the treemenu.

It would be useful to have a button like that on a web gui too, oh wait we're right back where we started.

[rwd]

oh wait we're right back where we started.

Not if you can configure which labels you want to be able to use with one click. At least then 'starred' and 'published' are not some kind of special label anymore like they are now.

[justauser]

but if you are a 'star' you like being special. and we won't want published to get jealous.