Customizing Miniflux: Sorting by Signal

I have been using Miniflux as my feed reader for a couple of years now. As mentioned in a previous note, I have customized it to add custom sorting for articles. In the last note I added sorting by similarity. In this note, I add another method to it: sorting by signal. This post was originally published on abhinavsarkar.net. This post is a part of the series: Customizing Miniflux. Making a Two-Pane Reader Addding Custom Sorting Sorting by Similarity Sorting by Signal 👈 As scores of new articles keep coming into my feed reader every day, I found myself looking for a new way to find the actually interesting ones. So, I invented it! This quality of interest, which I dubbed Signal, is decided by two factors: Age of the article: I often find myself skip reading articles that seem interesting at a glance, but are too long to read immediately. Such articles keep getting older and get lost in my feed. So I consider older articles to be more interesting than newer ones. Also because, newness…