Mark all as read when double-clicking a feed?

I’m almost certain that, at some point in the past (perhaps distant past!) NNW supported a preference such that if you double-clicked a feed in the source list, to open that feed’s homepage in your web browser, all unread items in that feed would be marked as read in NNW. Is that setting gone? I’d like to see it come back.

My use case is that there are some sites I just prefer to read on the web. I like using NNW just to track when they post something new. I double-click, and I read everything new in Safari. I wish I didn’t have to mark all as read when I switch back to NNW.

It’s a hidden pref with a perhaps-not-surprising name: GruberFeedDoubleClickMarkAsRead

More hidden prefs:

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/Technotes/HiddenPrefs.md

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Genuinely, why are they hidden?

For preferences with narrow constituencies — but that I want to do anyway — I tend to make hidden preferences rather than making the preferences UI ever larger. (More preferences makes for more user anxiety, and I want to avoid that.)

Well, that’s simultaneously flattering and embarrassing.

Does KafasisTitleMode work on Tahoe? I’m not seeing any difference with it on or off. I never see a window title, and yet I can always show toolbar icon titles.

There’s no call site that uses it now. The last time it was used was November 2024.

Also, in my defense, on my main Mac this preference is already enabled and surely has been for years, since the hidden setting was added. It feels so natural to me I forgot it was even a setting. I ran into the problem where it wasn’t working on my MacBook Neo review unit, where I didn’t import anything from my main Mac.

not sure I’ve ever seen Gruber referred to as a narrow constituency