Alexandre Alapetite

However, you can automatically mark as read articles based on their publication date, using filter actions

> I would expect any read article discovered more than one hour ago to be purged No, that would mostly never be the case. Purge (yes, meaning delete) is only...

> the behavior you describe (even if intended) is very hard to tease out of the UI. Yes, we should add some hints and a section in the documentation >...

> I'm assuming it's the latter that determines the "discovery" date, since I don't see another column that could reasonably encode that? Correct

> Is there a way to force purge via the CLI/cron? Not yet, but that would be easy to add on the model of https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/blob/edge/cli/db-optimize.php PR welcome

> I have articles prior to that What `lastSeen` value has that article?

`lastSeen` is always newer than or equal to `id`. The logic is that when an article has not been seen for more than the defined limit, it may get eligible...

@spider1163 Check the option to keep only *n* articles unread

One option at the moment is to make a FreshRSS extension, which listens to `feed_before_actualize` with a `sleep(10)` or something like that

Merged in edge