Missing features in News 25.x

[Grotax]

Background

News 25.x includes a major rewrite of the fronted. This change was necessary since the old UI was based on angular JS (the original) and that framework is no longer supported by Google and therefore also all dependencies and everything around it.

The new frontend uses vue js and the nextcloud libs for vue js.

See https://github.com/orgs/nextcloud/projects/85 for the things that have been done so far.

Current Situation

We have alpha releases that include basic functionality. People can install them manually from the app-store via cli or however they like.

Missing Features

Pull requests welcome ❤️

• Settings in Sidebar and related features
  • Keyboard Navigation Keyboard schortcuts stopped working #2480 PR: Keyboard navigation #2671 Implement highlighting of active feed item and more keyboard shortcuts #2677 fix: undefined item when using j/k akeyboards shortcuts in empty feed #2689
  • Mark as read on Scroll
  • Reverse Order (Oldest to Newest)
  • Upload/Download Subscriptions/Articles 25.0.0-alpha3: No export button anymore? #2541
• Search, singe item view
  • The search can currently only link to a feed, it would be ideal to have an view to directly link to an item
• Refresh items in background [Feature Request] Show automatically new news items on VueJS implementation #2502
• Trim whitespace when adding new feed Remove leading & trailing white space when adding URL #2483
• Restore last opened page (feed/unread/starred) when opening the app 25.0.0-alpha2: Navigating to the news app always opens /explore instead of remembering the last viewed feed #2507
  • Store state of filter add: filter persistence #2704
  • Show indicator on filter icon if filter is set, add: filter persistence #2704 (comment)
• Restore opened state of folder 25.0.0-alpha2: Feed folderbar menu always opens collapsed #2508
• Reset scroll position when switching to new feed, item 25.0.0-Alpha-3: Scroll position is not reset when switching between articles & feeds #2548
• Rebuild something like compact mode 25.0.0-alpha2 #2423 (comment)
• Move feeds between folders Add option to move feeds between folders #2667
• Sorting by date does not work Sorting by date does not work #2678
• Article not marked as read on middle-clicking on "Open website" icon Article not marked as read on middle-clicking on "Open website" icon #2705
• Admin Settings can not be updated [NC28, News 25.X] Updating fields in admin settings not possible #2533

[alxrdn]

Hello,
following this discussion #2423 (comment)
Can the compact view mode be listed here as a missing feature?
I unfortunately don't have the competencies to provide with a PR for this, but someone probably do have

[kbridger]

Are there features missing that will impact external apps accessing news, eg. Nextcloud News Android app? Or is this all related to the News UI in Nextcloud via web browser?

[Grotax]

All related to the frontend, the API/backend which is used by the apps actually is a bit better, performance, bug fixes for edge cases and so on

[PhieF]

Hi there ! thanks for the wonderful rewrite !

There is another missing feature in the sidebar (I guess ?) the import feature !

[Grotax]

Yea in my understanding that is included in this checklist with Upload/download...

How exactly it will be solved has to be decided by the person who does it so far there is no interest in working on the frontend.

[zachpmanson]

Very happy with the rewrite, much more responsive than the AngularJS version.

Missing feature: there is no way to move a feed from one folder to another

[azmeuk]

#2480 can be added to the list

edit: my bad. Sorry for the noise.

[SMillerDev]

It's there, first group, first item

[zachpmanson]

Missing feature: There doesn't appear to be any way to import or export OPML files in the new interface.

(I apologize in advance if its there and I missed it)
If there is a way of doing this using the CLI/API I would love to know

[SMillerDev]

The CLI can do it, and additionally it's item 1.4 in the checklist above

[FadeFx]

Hi, i have to add that scrolling in the mobile Interface ist a Pita, as items disapear from the list too early and the rest of the list jumps up...

Also I'd love to see the full post list again, I was used to scroll through the list of full news items, as most providers do not feed the full article anyway.

[Grotax]

For the first issue you mention there is already #2498 basically the vue component in use does not work properly.

I'm not sure if that view will come back. There are so many different opinions how the views should be done.

[SMillerDev]

Unless people make a pull request of course, then there's a reasonable chance it will be added

[ChristianKrausse]

I miss the Keybord Navigation to the next Article

[pbek]

I miss the Keybord Navigation to the next Article

See #2671.

[AHeinlein]

It might be worth it to have an "officially recommended" solution to this for now, apart from uninstalling news.
There is a way to install 25alpha and there is a workaround to get 24.x running und Nextcloud 28 (#2610). I am using the workaround for almost half a year now and it works well for me. I wish I could help more, but my time is limited and my php skills are, well, basic at most.

[Grotax]

My official recommended solution is to update to the alpha. We do not support older versions at all.

Some people might find this strange but that's how it is in open source sometimes.

[TheNomad11]

The CLI can do it, and additionally it's item 1.4 in the checklist above

@SMillerDev exporting works via cli but how to import? can you help me with this? thanks!

[melroy89]

Hi. To be honest I'm fine if you make an official release from 25.0.0-alpha8, because it has at least a working UI again. And people no longer need to apply a workaround in order to get the news app working under Nextcloud v29. So 25-alpha8 works good enough for me!

I fully understand that there are still features missing or other bugs, but personally I would just launch an official release again and continue from there.

[Siggi0904]

for sure, please upgrade these addon.
I'm hanging at 27 because is latest stable version and I'd like to upgrade to nc 29.

Great thanks.

[SMillerDev]

I'm hanging at 27 because is latest stable version and I'd like to upgrade to nc 29.

And if we rename the current release it'll be just as unstable. You can also just install the current unstable version if you want to upgrade.

[Siggi0904]

In which way I can upgrade with newly alpha8?

[chesio]

In which way I can upgrade with newly alpha8?

This thread has some answers: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-version-29-0-0-news-app-not-working/189784/10

[Goldmaster]

Not too bothered about the broken interface as i read on mobile. What does the interface look like? Hope it is as good visually as feedly.

[akhil1508]

@Grotax Do you know which of the features in the checklist are already completed or in progress? Or is the list already up-to-date? (I don't want to create duplicate PRs)

[Grotax]

Should be up to date but if you want to work on the code and implement create a PR better double check 😊