When opening a feed, oldest article is selected instead of newest.

[mjanssens]

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Explain the Problem

Since 15.4.0 the oldest article in a feed is selected by default.
So with default sorting (newest on top), the selected item is by default on the bottom.
Keyboard shortcut n/j/right has no effect, because it's the last article in the list.

Steps to Reproduce

Explain what you did to encounter the issue

1. Reverse sorting is not enabled
2. Open a feed
3. Feed articles are sorted top down from newest to oldest, as in previous versions of the news app
4. Press keyboard right key
5. Nothing happens
6. when scrolling down, you see that the oldest item is selected, so that's why next article shortcut doesn't go to next article.

When selecting reverse sorting, you see that the oldest article is still selected, but now it's on the top of the list, and keyboard shortcut as effect.

System Information

• News app version: 15.4.0
• Nextcloud version: 21.0.1
• Cron type: system cron
• PHP version: 7.3.27
• Database and version: PostgreSQL 11.11
• Browser and version: Firefox 88.0
• OS and version: Debian 10.9

[mjanssens]

A workaround for now, without enabling reverse sorting order.
Click the first article with mouse. Then use the keyboard shortcuts as usual.

[SMillerDev]

It seems the newestItem in the API response is not in fact the latest item in the list. This might be because of the difference between sorting in the list id and the real world lastUpdatedTime

[bhtooefr]

Worth noting that, from what I'm seeing, this isn't technically selecting the oldest article, but rather the oldest visible article in the current view (it may be the oldest loaded, not oldest visible, I haven't tried shrinking the browser window after opening a feed), at least with newest on top sorting, with 15.4.5.

So, if I have 500 unread articles, and my browser window is large enough to show 30, opening the unread articles view and pressing n selects the 30th newest article, not the oldest (500th newest). (Expected behavior is for it to select the newest article, of course.)

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[feutl]

This issue is still not fixed on my instance running NC 21.0.3 and News 16.0.0

[mdkcore0]

same on my instance (NC 22.1.0 and News 16.0.1)

[weierophinney]

Same - NC 22.2.3 and News 17.0.1 here.

[feutl]

What is the status on this ?
I am seeing new app updates quite often - which I really appreciate, but this issue is really annoying and I would like to see it fixed.

I know I know, volunteers and I could help too. I understand all of this, but this is my way of helping, by asking and bringing the focus back to the issue.

Thanks

[Grotax]

No development on the frontend side, updates only change the backend parts or automatically update dependencies.
There is no one in the project that wants to work on the frontend.

[feutl]

well, sad but understandable.
Thanks for the honesty.

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[bhtooefr]

Still present in Nextcloud 23.0.3 with News 18.0.0.