A calmer way to manage noisy feeds

Not all feeds behave the same way. One publishes a thoughtful essay every few weeks. Another publishes throughout the day. Treating them identically is an easy way for the noisy ones to take over your reading queue.

Spoonfed now gives you a clearer way to see that difference and decide what to do about it.

See a feed's publishing rhythm

Each feed's settings include a 30-day activity graph. The bars show how many articles arrived on each day, making it easy to spot the difference between a steady feed, a bursty one, and a feed that rarely publishes.

The feed list also shows an articles-per-day score, so you can get a quick sense of a feed's volume without opening its settings. The graph gives you the detail when you need to make a decision.

Set a sensible discard window

Auto-discard removes old, unread articles from the reading pool after a period you choose. It is useful for fast-moving feeds where yesterday's news shouldn't remain in the queue indefinitely.

The activity graph marks your current discard cutoff, so you can see how the setting relates to the feed's recent publishing history instead of guessing. Change the threshold and you can immediately reason about what will still be waiting for you.

Bookmarked articles are kept, even when auto-discard runs. The setting is for managing the queue, not for deleting the things you decided were worth saving.

Different rules for different feeds

A global threshold is a good starting point, but feeds deserve different treatment. Set a short window for a high-volume news feed, leave a slow personal blog around for longer, or disable auto-discard for a publication you never want to miss.

Per-feed overrides let you do that without changing the default for everything else. The graph's cutoff marker makes each choice visible in the context of that feed's actual behavior.

Less queue maintenance

The point is not to make you manage your feeds more often. It is to make the queue take care of itself. Once you have a feel for how a feed publishes, choose the rule that fits and let Spoonfed quietly clear out what is no longer useful.

Your feeds can be as varied as the things you read. They do not all need to compete for the same amount of attention.