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by amatriain 4109 days ago
Feedbunch does NOT mark entries as read after a certain period. That's not a feature of RSS at all, I guess it is a feedly-specific feature (or anti-feature, I guess, depending on your needs).

What Feedbunch does, however, is limit how many entries it remembers for each feed. The current limit is 500 entries for a single feed; once a feed has more than 500 entries the oldest ones are removed until there are 500 left. The number (500) could be subject to change during the beta phase if users' feedback indicates it is too high or too low.

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Thanks, this is a very good news. I'm definitely going to import my feeds right now :)

> The number (500) could be subject to change during the beta phase if users' feedback indicates it is too high or too low.

I don't think if this would be of any use for you but actually, there are websites that in a month produce way more than 500 entries. LifeHacker for example produces something from 730 to 800 entries per month (with very few of them being useful at all... and this is the reason why I decided to unsubscribe). So everything depends on how (and how much) a user checks the reader.

Oh. That's (IMHO of course) an even worse anti-feature, since I use my feedreader to archive interesting stuff from RSS feeds, and removing things after a few months kills that. But I can see how it makes sense for some users, and is a way to limit costs for a hosted offering.