Find out why `reload-only-visible-feeds` even exist, and why isn't it set to "yes" by default

[pcause]

Newsboat version (copy from newsboat -v): 2.10.2 Steps to reproduce the issue:

I enter "t" and select a tag. a list of feeds is displayed. If I hit R all feed are reloaded but what I want is a way to only reload the tagged feeds.

[Minoru]

You can set reload-only-visible-feeds to yes, then it should work like you expect it to.

Need to investigate why we have an option at all, and figure out if we can make "yes" the default.

Thanks for opening an issue, @pcause!

[pcause]

that did it, thanks.

[Minoru]

I'd like to keep this issue open because I still want to do that investigation.

[bitmeise]

I read this as a request for discussion and just want to add, that I came here for the exact same reason: I was expecting to reload only visible feeds on screen.

[Minoru]

@bitmeise Discussion is welcome in any issue, but for this kind of addition, please use GitHub reactions.

[Minoru]

3.0 (whenever that happens) would be a nice opportunity to flip the default, so I've added this issue to that milestone.

[dennisschagt]

Need to investigate why we have an option at all, and figure out if we can make "yes" the default.

Making reload-only-visible-feeds yes the default might not work nicely if someone has configured show-read-feeds no. In that case, reload-all would only reload feeds which already have some unread items.

Another possible issue happens if only query feeds are shown with the current filter. In that case, no new items will be retrieved, even though they would be shown in the query feeds.

[danieldoof]

First of all, I really enjoy using newsboat!

It seems like the option reload-only-visible-feeds yes has a conflict with reload-threads 30. When using reload-all, newsboat loads all visible feeds sequentially and NOT in parallel. Obviously, this slows down operation considerably.

After commenting out reload-only-visible-feeds yes, all feeds are reloaded again in parallel.

Is this known and/or desired behaviour? I could not find any information on that in the documentation.

The tag feature is a really useful one, especially when combining it with reload-only-visible-feeds and reload-threads. Although read feeds are still excluded from being reloaded with reload-all when show-read-feeds no is used.

The absolutely best version in my opinion would be the following:

• tags are used
• reload-only-visible-feeds with reload-all reloads ALL feeds under the current tag, not just feeds with unread articles
• reload-threads plays nicely with reload-only-visible-feeds and reloads in parallel

And again: thank you very much for your work on this useful piece of software.