Friptick

> It's open source, so there's always hope Indeed. I was being disingenuous. I actually have much expertise in the art of nagging and pestering software maintainers. :) Your little...

The feature as described in the title would be really useful. Often a news source will have multiple feeds based on the overlapping categories of its CMS ("Culture", "Politics" etc)....

Thanks @allanwind. >then you can read one, and manually delete the rest. Yep OK. Generous of you to call that a workaround! >feeds either screw up or move their content...

@Minoru >What if you enable an option because you wanted to deduplicate Lobsters and HN, but then another author posts something different linking to the same URL? Yes, fair point....

This is looking more and more like a can of worms. One which I fear I do not have the expertise to help resolve. To take a step back and...

> The `exec` I'm talking about is invoked much earlier, when the feed is downloaded by Newsboat. Exactly, but _how_ is it invoked earlier? This is the bit I'm finding...

Thanks @Minoru for the `exec` example, which completely demystifies the plugin mechanism! Maybe an idea to put it in the docs. > Can you give an example of an article...

> I subscribed to both feeds and will keep an eye for a duplicate @Minoru Should have been plenty by now! :) I've been waiting to find out if this...

Great! Thanks so much, and best of luck with the contest.

Thanks for these initial thoughts @Minoru. But more importantly, take it easy and get well soon.