Advanced

The Advanced tab allows you to set more advanced options. If you are not sure about their effect, you can just leave the default ones.

The Advanced tab
Archive
Archive backend:

Akregator currently only uses the Metakit database.

Article List
Mark selected article read after

Default is 0 seconds, which means that as soon as you click on an article it is marked as read. You can choose to mark any article as read after a specified number of seconds.

Reset search bar when changing feeds

This will clear the search bar when you change feed.