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[Roman Shchekin <mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Lisette!

1. I am using RSS Reader only on my mobile phone, Nokia N9, and seems that
it's standard reader stores all data for offline reading. I don't know how
they solved free space problem, but I like this concept - once I am updated
feed, later can read all articles offline! But I don't know when reader
clears history.

2. From other side - the downloading of concrete article is also good idea,
device will stay "clear" (no any useless data).

3. A lot of feeds use very and very short description (one sentence). Such
articles are useless without an opening of original site or something like
that.

Question is still open. Your ideas, please!

BR,
Roman.


2013/7/5 Lisette Slegers <lisette.slegers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi everyone!
>
> During the RSS hangout today, we talked a little bit about saving offline,
> and there are some interesting questions we should consider.
>
> If the app currently saves all the articles in the reader's stream into
> the local database, how is the app affected if:
>
>    1. The reader subscribes to *a lot* of feeds.
>    2. The reader has used up a lot of storage on his phone (storing music
>    and videos for example).
>
> Could the user run out of space in the scenarios above? What would happen
> in that case; would you prioritise new articles and chuck out old ones? I
> guess that would be fine as long as your history has an acceptable size,
> although it might be confusing for a user if the app sometimes saves 2 days
> of history, and sometimes 2 hours if there is not enough space on the
> device.
>
> Imagine the reader with a lot of subscriptions. His feed stream is more
> like a tsunami. He skims the article headlines very quickly and only opens
> a small percentage to read the first paragraph. Even fewer articles he
> saves to read in full at a later stage. Perhaps headlines are more
> important than the entire article? As long as a user has not saved an
> article, I think it is fair to assume we have an internet connection
> available to load the article. Or perhaps it could be a mix of online and
> offline depending on the amount of available storage.
>
> It would also be good to know whether we can technically save articles
> offline including the images. If it is not possible for version 1, it would
> still be useful to let users bookmark an article so that they can easily
> find it back later. As long as we use correct wording to clarify
> functionality to users ('bookmark' vs. 'save offline').
>
> Let's talk more about this soon. Really looking forward to try out the
> reader! :)
>
> Thanks,
> Lisette
>
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