Current Behavior

  • there is a Hide Read posts button

  • there is an option to Mark Read on Scroll

  • there is a Gesture to Hide

  • There is an option to Reset Hidden posts

Issue

  1. When some GIF/video posts take time to fully load in the , I would scroll down to next set of posts while I wait for previous videos to load. As a result, I cannot turn on Mark Read on Scroll because the slow loading posts have not been Read.

  2. Upvoting/Downvoting marks posts as Read.

  3. If I want to hide some posts, I use the Gesture to Hide posts.

  4. If I hide a post by mistake, using the Reset Hidden Posts option deletes the history of Hidden posts but keeps the history of Read posts.

  5. After reading the incorrectly hidden post, if I Hide Read Posts again, only the Read posts are hidden. The previously Hidden posts have been reset are not hidden at this point.

  6. As a result, in order to retrieve one post marked hidden by mistake, we end up unhiding all the other Hidden posts.

Solution

Provide a Gesture to Mark Posts as Read.

  • This gesture can then be used instead of the Gesture to Hide posts.

  • When Resetting Hidden Posts, the history of Read posts will be preserved.

  • When using the button to Hide Read posts again, all Read posts will be correctly hidden instead of losing the Hidden posts history.

  • Alternative Solution**

Provide an option to Mark Hidden Posts as Read.

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