Content repetition under various categories in Kagi News

JackFruit

In regards to Kagi News, there is quite a bit of content repetition between categories, often. This is something that should be improved upon.

Repetition of the news articles between categories can be eliminated by utilising "categories selected" and can by using "sources" to trim the repetition of news for a user under different categories. There are already hierarchies existing for this in the repository (Core feed and Kite feeds), and this can be used for mitigating repetitions.

Elimination of these repetitions between categories will greatly help the content delivery and reduce the bloat.

For example : If a person is subscribed to both World News and UK, there is no need to show the news shown in the category "World" to repeat and be shown in the category "UK".

If category "World News" shows the news, then the sub category (here "UK" ) should eliminate the news shown in the main category. This might get the sub-categories thinner in content (if subscribed to both primary category and secondary category), but it will keep the news reading experience cleaner.

There is no need to remove content if a person is subscribed to just one non-overlapping category (either from Core feed or Kite Feed). Imagine if multiple categories are subscribed, the repetition compounds and bloats the feed. This also makes the app feel vapid in content delivery.

Ground News has some good category based delivery, but even they have some bits of overlapping news, sometimes.

A toggleable feature will be an over engineered solution to eliminate repetitions, but just category-based overlap elimiation of content by default will be the best approach for this issue.

kirkmc

No, because not everyone checks every category. If world news affects the UK, it should be there. However, the algorithm isn't very good, and doesn't determine whether the news affects a country, but just finds that a number of sources in that country talk about it. So right now, when I look at UK news, there's a story about ICE and Trump in the US, which has no bearing on the UK.

JackFruit

Yes, I agree. That's why I mention the app to check the categories chosen by user (which already has a sync) feature, then hide the overlaps. If there are no overlaps, all news is delivered regardless.

leuchtthurm

I also noticed the repetition and get annoyed by it. Completely eliminating it might be too much, given there's a proper chance users would opt to only read any subset of their chosen categories any given day. I do this quite often when I don't want to spend too much time reading the news.

A compromise could be to at least mark duplicates as read across all categories when read in one.

Also, the ones from categories I already scrolled to the bottom through and didn't want to read that are duplicate in another category could be grouped at the bottom under “News you already saw in another category” (better title needed), but this still doesn't feel like a perfect solution.

One more thing to consider is that duplicate topic probably doesn't automatically mean duplicate content. For example, a topic filed under “USA” and “Germany” regarding some new development in their bilateral relation could have the exact same title but be interpreted very different from the relative perspectives, so I might even want to read it in both categories (or just read the second one after already seeing the first one). Filtering the duplicates out would hurt here, marking them as read or grouping them at the bottom would not.

JackFruit

leuchtthurm I do like the alternatives that you're suggesting! It'll definitely be nice if it shows that news is read across categories or totally puts in a sub repeated category