#1 per feed expirations

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1. Per-feed expirations

I’d love a little drop-down menu on the “New Subscription” window (that’s also echoed as a section in the feed’s “Info for…” window) that lets me select how long I want to subscribe to the feed. It might be pre-popped with, say, 3 months, but the options I’d include are (1 day | 1 week | 2 weeks | 1 month | 3 months | 6 months | 1 year | Forever). “But why?” you wonder aloud, “these RSS feeds, they are so wonderful!”

Well, one of the reasons I ended up deleting all my RSS feeds last month was the fact that my collection had become a disorganized travesty consisting largely of things I’d stopped reading, packages that had been delivered weeks ago, and comment threads that hadn’t seen a new addition in months. Noise, noise, noise, and it’s all down to me to delete the junk one feed at the time. Screw that. Reset.

I’ve found an increasing number of my feeds are, by their nature, ephemeral, in that they will lose any value to me within a very short period of time. FedEx deliveries are the canonical example. What in this world could possibly seem more important before it happens, but could matter less once it’s passed?

Letting me establish the life of a feed when I add it, but then giving me a cool interface to decide if I really want to delete it would be very cool, and it could come in the way of…