It's not possible to automatically mark an article as unread (simply keep unread) after clicking on it

[Jerome-Herbinet]

Before I report a bug, I'd like someone to explain how to do it; I've tried different settings, and no matter what I do, when I click on an article, it gets marked as read.

I saw that there’s an eye icon you can click to restore the article as unread and lock its status as unread, but that has to be done article by article.

I don’t want to do that for every single article.

I want to apply this behavior to all articles in all feeds in a single action, or do it feed by feed.

There’s a general setting called “Disable mark read through scrolling,” but it doesn’t do what I want (either I haven’t understood its purpose, or there’s a bug), and there’s a setting for each feed called “Keep read status on update,” and again, it doesn’t do what I want (either I haven’t understood its purpose, or there’s a bug).

Can you help me with this ?

[SMillerDev]

I don't think I understand the goal. You never want anything to show as read? There is no option for that that I know of.

[Jerome-Herbinet]

When I’m checking the news (with lots of feeds and therefore lots of articles available), I browse through the articles, sometimes clicking on them to get a quicker idea of what they’re about than the headline alone provides (article hopping)... and I don’t want to mark as read an article I’ve only opened for a few seconds, but only the ones I’ve actually read. Do you find this relevant / useful?

[Jerome-Herbinet]

Also, I would like to understand what the 2 described settings are actually supposed to do.

[SMillerDev]

Disable mark read through scrolling

This stops scrolling from affecting the read status.

Keep read status on update

This prevents updates to the item from resetting the read status.