Current Behavior

• there is a Hide Read posts button
• there is an option to Mark Read on Scroll
• there is a Gesture to Hide
• There is an option to Reset Hidden posts

Issue

1. When some GIF/video posts take time to fully load in the , I would scroll down to next set of posts while I wait for previous videos to load. As a result, I cannot turn on Mark Read on Scroll because the slow loading posts have not been Read. 
2. Upvoting/Downvoting marks posts as Read. 
3. If I want to hide some posts, I use the Gesture to Hide posts.  
4. If I hide a post by mistake, using the Reset Hidden Posts option deletes the history of Hidden posts but keeps the history of Read posts. 
5. After reading the incorrectly hidden post, if I Hide Read Posts again, only the Read posts are hidden. The previously Hidden posts have been reset are not hidden at this point.
6. As a result, in order to retrieve one post marked hidden by mistake, we end up unhiding all the other Hidden posts.

Solution

Provide a Gesture to Mark Posts as Read. 

• This gesture can then be used instead of the Gesture to Hide posts. 
• When Resetting Hidden Posts, the history of Read posts will be preserved. 
• When using the button to Hide Read posts again, all Read posts will be correctly hidden instead of losing the Hidden posts history.

• Alternative Solution**

Provide an option to Mark Hidden Posts as Read. 

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