Coming From Another Reader

If you already read RSS, you know how a reader works and most of that transfers. Four things here do not, and they are the four that make people think something is broken during the first week.

Move your sources first

Export an OPML file from your current reader — every one of them has this, usually under settings or account — and import it under Discover Sources → Import.

This is the fastest possible start by a wide margin: everything you already read, at once, with folders intact.

Two things to expect. Sources past your plan's cap are reported as failures rather than silently dropped, so a partial import is a cap and not a corrupt file. And a few feeds will fail because they moved since you subscribed years ago — normal on any import of a long-lived list. See adding sources.

The four differences

There is no unread count to clear

Deliberately. At the volume a decent subscription list produces, an unread badge is not a task list — it is a count of what the world published, and no number in that range is something anyone is going to get to zero.

Unread still exists as a view and is genuinely useful for catching up on one source. What is gone is the number and the obligation attached to it. There is no "mark all read" either, because nothing is accumulating against you.

This is the habit that takes longest to unlearn, and it is the one worth unlearning.

The default view is ranked, not chronological

Recommended is scored and sorted, not newest-first. That is the product.

If you want a timeline, you still have one: click a source in the Feeds tree, or use Unread. Both are chronological and strictly your own subscriptions.

Recommended includes sources you did not add

About one item in five, never in the first three positions. Feedpik blends a platform-wide pool into your own feed so that discovering a source you do not follow does not require you to already be short of things to read.

Nothing subscribes you on your behalf — unfamiliar sources carry a Follow button, and until you press it they stay one-offs. The full explanation is here.

Saving is a ranking signal

In most readers, saving is a private bookmark that changes nothing. Here it is the strongest positive signal in the system — stronger than liking, because "I intend to come back to this" predicts what you want more of better than a reaction does.

There is no silent bookmark. If you want to keep something without teaching the ranking, there is no mechanism for that today.

What transfers unchanged

Folders, favourites, renaming a feed whose own title is useless, unsubscribing, OPML in and out. All present and all behave the way you expect.

Keyboard shortcuts do not exist yet. If you navigate j/k by muscle memory, that is a real loss and worth knowing before you commit.

Worth doing in the first hour

Set your languages. Feedpik defaults to English for the shared pool. Your own subscriptions are never filtered by language, but the pool is, so a non-English reader who skips this sees a thinner feed with no indication why.

Write two or three muted topics. Easier than listing interests and more effective. Muted topics are the heaviest lever in the ranking, so "nothing about crypto" is felt on the next refresh.

Do not tune anything else yet. Give the ranking a week of ordinary reading first. Adjusting weights before there is any history to weigh mostly produces changes you cannot attribute.

If something looks wrong

My import brought in fewer sources than I had — check the failures list. It is either the plan cap or feeds that have moved since you subscribed.

Everything is ranked and I want dates — Feeds tree or Unread. Both are chronological.

I miss my unread badge — genuinely, give it two weeks. Almost nobody wants it back afterwards, and if you do, Unread is still there.

My folders came across but look different — folders belong to the persona you imported into, and carry no ranking weight. They organise; they do not influence. See personas.