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[David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Lisette Slegers <
lisette.slegers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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').
>
>
CC'ing Roberto Alsina from the U1 team and Christian Dywan from the SDK
team, who's the expert on the U1DB QML bindings.

@Roberto, Christian, do you think that could be a good use case for U1DB
storage? Do you think it might be a good idea to store RSS articles (text +
images) in U1DB for bookmarking them? Or do you think offline reading
support should be only on a per-device basis and better stored in a cache?

Thanks.

Cheers,
David.



> Let's talk more about this soon. Really looking forward to try out the
> reader! :)
>
> Thanks,
> Lisette
>
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