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Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Post by rorso »

kart22 wrote: post #43
nparsons08 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great point; however, we wanted to bring the user experience to the desktop. You are more than welcome to submit a PR to make this application web compatible.

Why do you require users to make an account? I personally would rather have all my settings stored locally, and export them if I needed to. An option for this would be great.

Yeah I installed it, saw you need an account, and uninstalled it.

I quite like desktop programs still, but I expect everything to be stored locally and not to need an account. I had hoped for a KeePass style db file that I could sync on Dropbox or something, but the last thing I need is more accounts and my data on some randoms server that could be taken down when they get bored, or run out of money/motivation.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Post by jhund »

SnowingXIV wrote: post #149

I’m still looking for a reader that can crawl the web and find articles based on specific keywords and exclude sites of my choice. I want to follow certain topics in a particular niche but the best solution is setting weekly roundup with google alerts in their news which only includes those that are part of “google news.”

Shameless plug: This is exactly what we built https://contentgems.com for. It is entirely driven by feeds (both RSS/Atom as well as Twitter home timeline). You can filter by content (Lucene query), by feed, by domain (suffix) and a few other parameters.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Post by jxcl »

_wmd wrote: post #154

(deleted useful feedback but ultimately neggy comment -- sorry, these guys are launching an app, I don't want to shit on that in a top comment where it's the reader's first experience).

> - Opens in App Store, which gets stuck (as always) asking me for billing info.

> - Rustle around for PayPal password. Why not just provide a .dmg?

> - +4 minutes, finally get App Store working. Download.

This seems to be more a complaint about your operating system than the app.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Post by wyclif »

_wmd wrote: post #154

(deleted useful feedback but ultimately neggy comment -- sorry, these guys are launching an app, I don't want to shit on that in a top comment where it's the reader's first experience).

I'd like to know why I should download and install this when I can use Feedly. Maybe it's uncool to like Feedly nowadays, but it does everything I want it to do. Before that I used Google Reader until it was retired.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Post by guessmyname »

unicornporn wrote: post #70

I don't understand why you would ever want this to be a desktop app. Try FreshRSS[1], it's awesome. It works well on shared hosting and it runs on SQLite. TTRSS only gave me trouble. Threw all kinds of strange errors at unexpected times. I don't know how many times it died on me after an upgrade. I eventually gave up and found FreshRSS. Been running (and updating) it over a year, without a single problem. One of the…

Last week I discovered Cappuccino [1] (macOS and iOS app).

* Interface is native,

* Free, with some (paid) premium options,

* 3 visualization options (preview, web, browser),

* Import and export your OPML configuration,

* Native desktop notifications,

* Premium daily email summaries,

* Premium push notifications.

It was also recently released on May 7, 2018.

[1] http://cappuccinoapp.com

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Post by apocalyptic0n3 »

jxcl wrote: post #156
_wmd wrote: post #154

(deleted useful feedback but ultimately neggy comment -- sorry, these guys are launching an app, I don't want to shit on that in a top comment where it's the reader's first experience).

> - Opens in App Store, which gets stuck (as always) asking me for billing info. > - Rustle around for PayPal password. Why not just provide a .dmg? > - +4 minutes, finally get App Store working. Download. This seems to be more a complaint about your operating system than the app.

No, it's a complaint about the availability of the app itself. You're not forced to use the App Store and most freeware is offered both in and out of it.

I gave Winds 2.0 a look last week and had the same experience. It took like 5 minutes just to get a download link and it takes me to the App Store where I have to sign-in (after signing in to LastPass and pulling out my phone for 2FA). Then I finally get it installed and immediately get asked to register for yet another account.

It's a pretty app, but the install process was terrible and it's honestly not a great RSS reader. It's a worse version of Flipboard with somehow less control over the content you see.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Post by apocalyptic0n3 »

wyclif wrote: post #157
_wmd wrote: post #154

(deleted useful feedback but ultimately neggy comment -- sorry, these guys are launching an app, I don't want to shit on that in a top comment where it's the reader's first experience).

I'd like to know why I should download and install this when I can use Feedly. Maybe it's uncool to like Feedly nowadays, but it does everything I want it to do. Before that I used Google Reader until it was retired.

Both Feedly and Flipboard seemed far better in my brief usage of Winds last week.
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