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Feature Request: Flag New Comments
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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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We could do, but ideally it would be implemented on the backend - some people use PieFed on both mobile and desktop, and storing the last read count locally wouldn't carry over properly between clients. Lemmy 1.0 has backend support for this feature.
I'd like to survey our users on this to see how they feel about what they read being tracked in this way.
Some time ago I floated the idea of somehow highlighting/prioritizing comments by people who had clicked the link to the article. People who mouth off without reading the article are a pain in the ass so I wanted to somehow de-emphasize those. The feedback I got at the time was pretty strongly "no I don't want you knowing what I read". It's too easy to do big data stuff on it to build profiles on people, I guess. It wasn't a proper poll, just people commenting so it's hard to know what the silent majority thinks.
So I'm a bit wary about it now.
Any suggestions for how to word the survey question? How it's framed will make a big difference to the result.
If there was a
readAtdate for the post, we'd be able to highlight comments created since that date. I don't think tracking areadAtdate is much less private than tracking areadboolean, which you're already doing. It could always be made opt-out, if people are concerned about it. Having the date that someone read a post isn't as exploitable as the link click tracking you mention, I don't think.