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#1137 /feed: per-post unread indicators and mark-as-read to track reading progress
Opened by magistr · 7/14/2026· Shipped 8/15/2026
Problem
The /feed (https://swamp-club.com/feed) is a growing stream of judge-gated
posts, but there's no way to tell which posts I've already seen. Every visit I
have to re-scan from the top and guess where I stopped reading last time. As the
feed grows this makes it easy to both miss genuinely new posts and re-read old
ones — I can't reliably track my reading position in the stream.
Proposed solution
Track per-user read state for feed posts and surface it in the feed UI:
- Unread by default, with a clear visual distinction between unread and read posts (e.g. an unread dot / bolder title / accent left-border for unread, dimmed for read).
- Auto-mark read when a post is scrolled into view or opened, and/or an explicit per-post "mark as read" affordance.
- A "mark all as read" action, mirroring the pattern that already exists on
/inbox(see #344), plus optionally a "N new since your last visit" divider so I can jump straight to where I left off. - Persist read state server-side per account so my reading position follows me across devices/sessions rather than living in localStorage.
Alternatives considered
- Manual memory / bookmarking — doesn't scale as the feed grows; this is the status quo.
- A single "new since last visit" timestamp line, no per-post state — lighter to build, but loses granularity the moment I read some-but-not-all of the new posts.
Related
- #959 (Remove comments from
/feedand redesign the page) — unread tracking would fit naturally into that redesign rather than being bolted on afterward. - #849 (Live Swamp Club event console on
/feed). - #344 —
/inboxalready implements an unread-count + "mark all read" pattern this could reuse for consistency.
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