Offline reading

[andreyorst]

I'd like to requirest a feature: offline reading

For a long time I was using the Feeder app, and I liked it a lot because it had almost all of the features I needed. It has some problems, most of which are non-existent in Capy Reader. However, I do miss some features.

In Feeder, there's an option to estimate time it takes to read an article. While I don't think it's practically useful metric, it has a side effect of fetching the article content while syncing, thus articles are cached in the app and are available for offline reading.

I'd like to ask for this feature, because I have a limited amount of traffic on my phone, and I often download articles while I'm at home, and read them in the subway while going to work. With Capy it's not quite possible at the moment, unless I manually open each article beforehand.

Do you think this feature could be a part of Capy Reader?

[jocmp]

Hey @andreyorst - Capy supports offline articles but not full offline content. Just to clarify, is your suggestion to download full content offline?

[andreyorst]

Yes. Most of articles in my feed require "full content" switch, so perhaps I didn't notice that the feature is partially there

[jocmp]

One more question for you. Would this feature automatically download new articles or just ones you've asked for it to save?

[andreyorst]

So here's how it works in Feeder:

video_2024-11-23_23-19-40.mp4

You can see that the update process stops (the spinner disappears) and then each article updates by showing its estimated read time. This has a side effect of downloading full content, and that's basically what I want.

So in short: all articles