[Brave News]: Feed Upgrade Tracking Issue

[fallaciousreasoning]

@LorenzoMinto and @mattmcalister have been working on a redesigned feed for Brave News. This is a tracking issue for the work in Brave Core:

Design Document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bSVHunwmcHwyQTpa3ab4KRbGbgNQ3ym_GHvONnrBypg

Prototype PR
brave/brave-core#18965

Sub Issues (in order)

• [Brave News]: Separate fetching feeds from the feed controller #31747
• [Brave News]: We should introduce a new brave://news-internals page #32131
• [Brave News Feed]: Prepare model for V2 Feed #32171
• [Brave News]: Parse the new popRecency score from the Brave News Feed #32173
• [Brave News]: Implement new feed generation #32174
• [Brave News]: Make feed generation parameters tunable #32175
• [Brave News]: Make it possible to view the signals going into the new feed generation #32320
• [Brave News]: It should be possible to view stats about how often publishers & channels are shown #32820

cc @aurangzaib048 @petemill

MVP Tasks

Beta Give feedback

1. Determining whether there are updates to the feed
2. [Brave News]: Figure out narrow screen navigation #35193
   OS/Desktop QA Pass-macOS QA/Yes feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +5
   
3. [Brave News]: We should support channel migrations in Brave News #34950
   OS/Android OS/Desktop QA Pass - Android ARM QA Pass-Win64 QA/Test-Plan-Specified QA/Yes feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +8
   
4. [Brave News]: Don't crop ad image in News Ads cards #34967
   OS/Desktop QA Pass-macOS QA/Test-Plan-Specified QA/Yes bug feature/brave-news feature/user-interface priority/P2 release-notes/exclude +9
   
5. Feed V2 Render performance (especially on back navigation) #34749
   OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
   
6. [Brave News]: Articles without images should never be used for Hero cards #34595
   OS/Desktop QA Pass-macOS QA/Yes feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +5
   
7. [Brave News]: Implement hierarchical sampling for feed composition #34525
   OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
   
8. [Brave News]: In-memory feed storage #34498
   OS/Desktop QA/No release-notes/exclude +3
   
9. [Brave News]: Add buttons for feed Refresh and Customize #34591
   OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
   
10. Get topics from clustering JSON and add topic cards #33505
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
11. Sidebar in feed view - list channels and sources sorrted by weighting, limited to top 4. Allows filtering #33672
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
12. [Brave News]: FeedV2 Sidebar tweaks #34330
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
13. [Brave News]: Add the FeedV2 design to the New Tab Page #33510
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
14. [Brave News]: FeedV2 New Peeking UI #34206
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
15. [Brave News]: FeedV2 Following Mode #34143
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
16. New design for feed cards #33296
    OS/Desktop QA Pass-macOS QA/Yes feature/brave-news priority/P4 release-notes/include +6
17. [Brave News]: FeedV2 Advertisements #34028
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
18. [Brave News]: Feed V2 Ranking Tweaks #33645
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
19. [Brave News]: Style Publisher Suggestions #33819
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
20. [Brave News]: FeedV2 should support dark theme #33897
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
21. [Brave News]: NTP background proper image sizing is not applied #33998
    OS/Desktop QA Pass-Linux QA Pass-Win64 QA Pass-macOS QA/Test-All-Platforms QA/Yes bug feature/new-tab priority/P2 regression release-notes/exclude +11
    
22. [Brave News]: FeedV2 should restore scroll position when navigating back #34083
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
23. [Brave News]: FeedV2 should be translated #34592
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
24. Enable Brave News feed v2 - flip feedV2 flag by default #34593
    OS/Desktop QA Pass-Linux QA Pass-Win64 QA Pass-macOS QA/Test-All-Platforms QA/Yes feature/brave-news release-notes/include +8
    
25. [Brave News]: Feed V2 Card Text #34594
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
26. [Brave News]: Feed v2 tweaks round #34621
    OS/Desktop QA Pass-macOS QA/Yes feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +5
    
27. [Brave News]: Fix pagination #34751
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
28. [Brave News]: Feed V2 articles should open in a new tab by default #34782
    OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
    
29. [Brave News]: Notify user when feed has new data #34819
    OS/Desktop QA Pass-Win64 QA/Yes feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +5
    

NOT MVP

Beta Give feedback

1. Search
2. [Brave News]: "Your Sources" card layout fixes #34497
   OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news priority/P3 release-notes/exclude +5
   
3. All topics card
4. Discovery card: channel suggestions
5. Now trending sidebar section
6. Expanding grouped clusters ("view more")
7. [Brave News]: News Internals url should be on the brave://about page #33669
   OS/Desktop QA/No release-notes/exclude +3
8. [Brave News]: Visibility tracking of articles in FeedV2 #34121
   OS/Desktop QA/No feature/brave-news release-notes/exclude +4
   
9. [Brave News]: Fancy scroll down animation

Uplift to 1.62.x

(tick when uplift PR created, rather than when uplifted)

• [Brave News]: FeedV2 Performance brave-core#21281
• [Brave News]: Fix lazy loading brave-core#21282
• [Brave News]: Flip FeedV2 flag by default brave-core#21144
• [Brave News]: Don't pick articles with no image as Hero card brave-core#21146
• [Brave News]: FeedV2 should be refreshable brave-core#21143
• [Brave News]: Translate FeedV2 brave-core#21142
• [Brave News]: Fix positioning/layering issues brave-core#21230
• Add hierarchical sampling for news cards feed composition brave-core#21111
• [Brave News]: FeedV2 Tweaks brave-core#21295
• [Brave News]: FeedV2 default to opening articles in a new tab and add setting for old behavior brave-core#21302
• [Brave News]: FeedV2 should provide notifications when new data is available brave-core#21323
• [Brave News]: Improve FeedV2 Buttons brave-core#21347
• [Brave News]: Tweaks round 3 brave-core#21393
• [Brave News]: Fix feed load issues on first time use of Brave News brave-core#21410
• [Brave News]: Remove height restriction on ads brave-core#21427
• [Brave News]: Miscellaneous fixes brave-core#21439
• [Brave News]: Fix following feed brave-core#21414
• [Brave News]: Add channel migrations brave-core#21413
• [Brave News]: Assorted FeedV2 fixes brave-core#21476
• [Brave News]: Tweaks round 4 brave-core#21495
• [Brave News]: Better offline handling & UX tweaks brave-core#21507
• [Brave News]: Tweaks round 5 brave-core#21516
• [Brave News]: Fix error message for no feeds brave-core#21557
• [Brave News]: Fix feed restore bug & edit add button padding brave-core#21581
• [Brave News]: Include direct sources in Content Groups brave-core#21602
• [Brave News]: Advert chrome:// url fixes & Revert FeedNavigation heading change brave-core#21590
• [Brave News]: Change top news card to show top topics brave-core#21580

[fallaciousreasoning]

Meeting notes from 2023-11-02 #34048