Pausing a Feed

Sometimes a feed just posts too often for you to keep up, or you are getting tired of it. Yet you don't want to remove it from your feeds. What can you do?

Downread just got a new feature that will help you in this situation: you can now pause a feed. Click on Pause to stop getting unread post notifications from the feed. You can still read it, but it won't mark anything as unread.

The Pause badge
The Pause badge

Decide how long you want to pause a feed. You can either suspend it for a week, a month, or until you end the pause.

Snooze or pause indefinitely
Snooze or pause indefinitely

Once you're pausing it, you can still access it or extend the pause.

A paused feed
A paused feed

I'm very excited about this feature, as I have plenty of feeds I keep in my list but don't really read anymore.

By Tim · October 8, 2026 at 20:00 UTC · Permalink