Missing features in News 25.x

[Grotax]

Background

News 25.x includes a major rewrite of the fronted. This change was necessary since the old UI was based on angular JS (the original) and that framework is no longer supported by Google and therefore also all dependencies and everything around it.

The new frontend uses vue js and the nextcloud libs for vue js.

See https://github.com/orgs/nextcloud/projects/85 for the things that have been done so far.

Current Situation

We have alpha releases that include basic functionality. People can install them manually from the app-store via cli or however they like.

Missing Features

Pull requests welcome ❤️

• Settings in Sidebar and related features
  • Keyboard Navigation Keyboard schortcuts stopped working #2480 PR: Keyboard navigation #2671 Implement highlighting of active feed item and more keyboard shortcuts #2677 fix: undefined item when using j/k akeyboards shortcuts in empty feed #2689
  • Mark as read on Scroll
  • Reverse Order (Oldest to Newest), Sorting by date does not work Sorting by date does not work #2678
  • Upload/Download Subscriptions/Articles (WIP feat: Add OPML import in CLI #2870) 25.0.0-alpha3: No export button anymore? #2541
• Search, singe item view
  • The search can currently only link to a feed, it would be ideal to have an view to directly link to an item
• Refresh items in background [Feature Request] Show automatically new news items on VueJS implementation #2502
• Trim whitespace when adding new feed Remove leading & trailing white space when adding URL #2483
• Restore last opened page (feed/unread/starred) when opening the app 25.0.0-alpha2: Navigating to the news app always opens /explore instead of remembering the last viewed feed #2507
  • Store state of filter add: filter persistence #2704
  • Show indicator on filter icon if filter is set, add: filter persistence #2704 (comment)
• Restore opened state of folder 25.0.0-alpha2: Feed folderbar menu always opens collapsed #2508
• Reset scroll position when switching to new feed, item 25.0.0-Alpha-3: Scroll position is not reset when switching between articles & feeds #2548
• Rebuild something like compact mode (WIP add single column layout (compact mode) #2867) 25.0.0-alpha2 #2423 (comment)
• Move feeds between folders Add option to move feeds between folders #2667
• Article not marked as read on middle-clicking on "Open website" icon Article not marked as read on middle-clicking on "Open website" icon #2705
• Admin Settings can not be updated [NC28, News 25.X] Updating fields in admin settings not possible #2533
• Option in folders to hide feeds with no unread items (Maybe add hint somewhere in the UI so that users notice it is active and do not create "I can't see anything" issues.)

[alxrdn]

Hello,
following this discussion #2423 (comment)
Can the compact view mode be listed here as a missing feature?
I unfortunately don't have the competencies to provide with a PR for this, but someone probably do have

[kbridger]

Are there features missing that will impact external apps accessing news, eg. Nextcloud News Android app? Or is this all related to the News UI in Nextcloud via web browser?

[Grotax]

All related to the frontend, the API/backend which is used by the apps actually is a bit better, performance, bug fixes for edge cases and so on

[zachpmanson]

Very happy with the rewrite, much more responsive than the AngularJS version.

Missing feature: there is no way to move a feed from one folder to another

[FadeFx]

Hi, i have to add that scrolling in the mobile Interface ist a Pita, as items disapear from the list too early and the rest of the list jumps up...

Also I'd love to see the full post list again, I was used to scroll through the list of full news items, as most providers do not feed the full article anyway.

[Grotax]

For the first issue you mention there is already #2498 basically the vue component in use does not work properly.

I'm not sure if that view will come back. There are so many different opinions how the views should be done.

[SMillerDev]

Unless people make a pull request of course, then there's a reasonable chance it will be added

[ChristianKrausse]

I miss the Keybord Navigation to the next Article

[pbek]

I miss the Keybord Navigation to the next Article

See #2671.

[AHeinlein]

It might be worth it to have an "officially recommended" solution to this for now, apart from uninstalling news.
There is a way to install 25alpha and there is a workaround to get 24.x running und Nextcloud 28 (#2610). I am using the workaround for almost half a year now and it works well for me. I wish I could help more, but my time is limited and my php skills are, well, basic at most.

[Grotax]

My official recommended solution is to update to the alpha. We do not support older versions at all.

Some people might find this strange but that's how it is in open source sometimes.

[Grotax]

Should be up to date but if you want to work on the code and implement create a PR better double check 😊

[pbek]

@Grotax, is Reverse Order (Oldest to Newest) the same as Sorting by date does not work (#2678)?

[pbek]

And do you think we could add Option in folders to hide feeds with no unread items to the list?

[Grotax]

@Grotax, is Reverse Order (Oldest to Newest) the same as Sorting by date does not work (#2678)?

Yea that is the same feature basically both want to have sorting by date and that the user can decide if old or new first

[wofferl]

@Grotax

Reverse Order (Oldest to Newest), Sorting by date does not work Sorting by date does not work #2678* [ ]

this is implemented with #2795

Option in folders to hide feeds with no unread items (Maybe add hint somewhere in the UI so that users notice it is active and do not create "I can't see anything" issues.)

Should this really be an own option or like in news24 when showAll is disabled autohide read folders

[Grotax]

I think how it was in news24 is ok

[pbek]

Reverse Order (Oldest to Newest), Sorting by date does not work #2678* [ ]

this is implemented with #2795

Are you sure this already worked? When I tested yesterday, I didn't manage to get the correct order in feeds. 🤔
...especially with infinite scrolling.

I worked on sorting in #2811.

[wofferl]

Reverse Order (Oldest to Newest), Sorting by date does not work #2678* [ ]

this is implemented with #2795

Are you sure this already worked? When I tested yesterday, I didn't manage to get the correct order in feeds. 🤔 ...especially with infinite scrolling.

I worked on sorting in #2811.

Yes this worked with alpha11. When you set the global setting to "Reverse ordering" the feeds are sorted from oldest to newest.

[pbek]

Ok, global settings in something different then. I was working on the per-feed settings.

[wofferl]

Ok, global settings in something different then. I was working on the per-feed settings.

Yes, we talked about this in your PR :)

[cloudymax]

is importing OPML files an abandoned feature? No longer works in the app and missing from web ui

[SMillerDev]

is importing OPML files an abandoned feature? No longer works in the app and missing from web ui

It's in the list above, so clearly not.

[SMillerDev]

I have two requests,
1.) When in a news item, klicking back or using the back gesture on a mobile device, should actually close the item instead of loading the previous page.

2.) As Nextcloud has for a while now disabled the pull down to reload gesture completely, it would be cool if you, like suggested by nextcloud dev, could enable that for News to reload the page and check for new items.
I would BTW prefere this instead of reloading in background, as the latter would cause, depending on sorting order, content to jump away unexpectedly.
#2502

These seem both like new feature requests, please file those in Discussions or as a pull request.

[Ekleog]

Just for my edification, are all the features listed here blockers for the 25.x release? In particular, I'm under the impression that things like the compact mode could reasonably be postponed to 26.x, so that nextcloud news can be used again with fewer features in the meantime?

For some context, Nextcloud 27 has been EOL for a few months, so there's currently no supported way of installing of Nextcloud News, despite it being a featured app on the official website — an alpha install is not really a supported install IMHO.

Regardless of your choice on the matter, thank you for all the work you put towards Nextcloud News 25! I'm very hyped about it, even though I've been living without an RSS feed for quite a few months now 😅

[MightyCreak]

To be fair, if you have access to the console, it's fairly easy to install the alpha version. But I agree it's a workaround and I'd prefer an official release of 25.0 with less features, knowing more are coming in 25.x afterwards

[Grotax]

Closing this as we are about to release 25.0.0. I'm sure there is still room for improvement but it will be the end of this issue.