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I've been using it for a while and enjoy it a lot. One thing I've never understood is why there are time-based categories. What's the point of anything except the real-time feed? If I don't want updates as soon as possible, then I also don't want to keep track of it. Never understood the use case.


Importance is organizational and just hints three things:

* Which feeds are fetched first.

* Which feeds are hidden from view. (Only 'real-time' is show on the first view.)

* The tab for each tag will be colored according to the status of 'Real-time' follows.

Importance is not a fixed number. It acts as a gradient: https://twitter.com/glitchyowl/status/1285757728049094656

Fortunately it's a very small feature and can be ignored. To other users, it is a crucial feature - and establishes the mindset of how to think about your follows. (That you can follow hundreds or thousands of people and move some into the background - to check on a much less frequent basis.)

Really appreciate the question, nsilvestri, and that you've made your own good use of Fraidycat.




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