[Sidebar] Unread counts for folders are only displayed when the folder is closed
Would it be possible to request that this be a user settable option? The way my reading habits have developed over the years is that I have my feeds organized into folders and then I click/tap the folder to see a consolidated view of all of the unread articles from all of the feeds in that folder. When scrolling down the sidebar, then, the unread count for the folder is very useful to see at a quick glance as to which folders have articles to read. I like to keep the folders open/expanded too, since that can also give me a quick glance to see if any feed has an unexpectedly large number of unread articles.
Even aside from my own specific usage habits that people may or may not share, it seems visually jarring to have the unread counts appear/disappear at the folder level depending on whether it’s open/expanded or not.
It’s designed to offer a balance between Mail (which never shows unread counts for folders) vs. NNW 6.x which had a very busy sidebar vs. simply showing an unread indicator rather than a number (which is also a common request).
My Mail.app shows unread message counts for folders both on macOS and iOS. However, the paradigm is a little bit different because a mail folder can contain both messages and other folders, and the unread count for a folder only shows the unread messages, not the total unread in subfolders as well. And that works fine for me for the email data model, which, while having a similar UI to an RSS reader, is different in a number of subtle but (at least to me) significant ways.
NNW 7 on macOS still behaves the way it has in the past with respect to showing the total number of unread articles, which makes switching between macOS and iOS even more jarring at the moment.
I can definitely appreciate the tradeoffs that go into design, so thanks for providing some of the background information. Obviously all of this is just my viewpoint/opinion on the matter. Thanks again!