I think you should be more specific what multiplatform means in the project description. i.e iOS and Android
Yes, I had the exact same reaction. Strong "We got both kinds, we got country and western!" energy here.
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#52For a long time I've been a happy user of rss2email, originally written by Aaron Swartz. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
It periodically fetches the rss feeds, and sends the content to a specified email address where you can use your email reader to sort them into folders.
Assuming you have a "good" email client, this takes care of most of my RSS requirements: Free software, offline availability, and the ability to read anywhere.
The only missing feature I think it could use is a nice GUI to manage feeds.
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#54A little weird its named “twine” since that name has been in use for years by a JavaScript interactive fiction development platform.
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#55A little weird its named “twine” since that name has been in use for years by a JavaScript interactive fiction development platform. https://github.com/klembot/twinejs https://twinery.org
Also the recommended Python tool to upload Python packages to PyPi:
https://pypi.org/project/twine/
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#56I’m building a free RSS reader with iCloud sync for iOS and macOS, Manabi Reader: https://reader.manabi.io Currently it’s targeted at Japanese learners and has some optional paid features on top for flashcards/Anki integration and tracking vocab/kanji. But I’m working on “zooming out” the product for general use (including more languages and general knowledge retention) because it has a solid RSS system, readability…
Looks very cool but unfortunately iOS only.
Yes iOS and macOS
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#57Just tried it out and it doesn’t feel quite right on iOS. Almost like the app is just a website loading in a browser. It’s very flat and the UI feels too “thin” (I know that doesn’t really make sense but it’s the best description I of how it feels to me right now). I guess it just doesn’t feel very native - more of a web wrapper?
It's indeed not a fully native application except on Android. It uses JetBrain's 'Compose Multiplatform' framework for the Kotlin programming language. Without having written code in it myself, it's difficult for me to work out exactly what its architecture is, but it seems closer to Flutter's approach than a web wrapper. My educated guess is that it renders the application inside an OpenGL/Metal graphics context. On…
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2023/05/compose-multiplatf...
"On iOS, Compose Multiplatform user interfaces are rendered via a canvas implementation based on the graphics library Skiko [Skia for Kotlin]."
So yes — it foregoes native controls for a canvas implementation that leverages the same 2D graphics library used for Chrome and Flutter.
Re: Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
#58For a long time I've been a happy user of rss2email, originally written by Aaron Swartz. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email It periodically fetches the rss feeds, and sends the content to a specified email address where you can use your email reader to sort them into folders. Assuming you have a "good" email client, this takes care of most of my RSS requirements: Free software, offline availability, and the abili…
Interesting, I use kill-the-newsletter to go the other way around. But your approach would give a good search and archiving functionality, something that rss clients (mostly) lack. I'm using feedbro (Firefox extension) as RSS client only because I can assign points to keywords to prioritize the huge info volume. The only other client that has such functionality is on Emacs, afaik. Had not tried it.. anyway, it would be cool to find an email client that allows me to add scores to emails based on keywords in the subject and/ or content. E.g. if it says hacker +10, if it says python +5. Oh. Negative values would be cool too. Ok I should go to bed. I'm daydreaming xdd
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#59I'm using it every day. I wish you could turn off title truncating, as my style of using the app is to skim through the feeds and only click the interesting articles. Also it would be nice to be able to filter out future items from the feeds, as some feeds use future dates as a way to schedule or announce something, and I would like to see just the immediate news. If it weren't for these two points, I'd say a 10/10 app.
Re: Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
#60For a long time I've been a happy user of rss2email, originally written by Aaron Swartz. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email It periodically fetches the rss feeds, and sends the content to a specified email address where you can use your email reader to sort them into folders. Assuming you have a "good" email client, this takes care of most of my RSS requirements: Free software, offline availability, and the abili…
Interesting, I use kill-the-newsletter to go the other way around. But your approach would give a good search and archiving functionality, something that rss clients (mostly) lack. I'm using feedbro (Firefox extension) as RSS client only because I can assign points to keywords to prioritize the huge info volume. The only other client that has such functionality is on Emacs, afaik. Had not tried it.. anyway, it would…
Yes, I much prefer the idea of comms via email, but news via RSS. Email being bidirectional makes more sense to just stick to comms for, especially with `noreply@` for most newsletters.