So here’s the situation:
I have over 300 things in my queue, probably half of which I don’t care about. I have no way to read through the backlog in a reasonable amount of time. By the time I would make it a good portion of the way through, ones I’ve already read will have new responses and be back on the list. These threads are long, sometimes with 10s or 100s of replies to read through for each one. Sometimes I’ll spend 30 mins to an hour or more reading and replying to just one topic. Multiply this by 300 and you can see how my queue stays full. This leaves me unable to use the dismiss button. I either unfollow everything and lose the topics I want to follow, or mark everything is read and have the unwanted threads popping back up.
I can tell by the titles the ones I don’t want to read. Having to click into each one to untrack is extraneous, but it’s the only management option I have for now as the list is constantly refilling due to heavy traffic.
If I was able to unfollow from the list directly, it would be much more efficient, and I wouldn’t have to keep losing my place on the list going in and out of topics. I could at least widdle out those I’m uninterested in to not have them pop back up. To be able to just click down these items would say me copious amounts of time and frustration, ESPECIALLY on mobile.
One gesture I use often in my mail app is swiping an email(equivalent of a topic here) left to delete it and right to mark as read/unread. This would be awesome on mobile and save me boatloads of time. The little dot could be displayed on desktop