I know this isn’t the best community for this topic but Lemmy doesn’t have anything more specific (yet). I want to know what’s going on that I have this setting in FreshRSS:
And this behavior:
Something tells me it isn’t a bug, just going over my head. I’m still new to selfhosting so it’s not all clear to me how it works yet.
What’s the problem exactly?
In the settings menu I have set the “maximum number of articles to keep” at 25, and yet my feeds have more than 25 articles in them.
Depends, take a look at the rest of your settings in the Archiving page.
You might have set “Never delete Unread Articles”.
Also, that purge job is on a cron. I’m not sure how often it’ll run. Could be once a week or even month. Thousands of rss articles and links are only a few megabytes big. But you can push the “purge now” button at the bottom of the archiving page to check your settings.
Is there a debug log that details what it is or is not deleting and why or why not?
Probably only applies to read articles, not unread ones.
That would be unfortunate if true. Honestly, if I could I would do away with the “read/unread” concept altogether. Are there really people out there who want to read absolutely everything in their feeds?
