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(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).
you're making life difficult. stop being reasonable.
I'm not sure what this non-native application is offering me over plenty of Mac (and presumably Linux & Windows) native versions using way less memory and having platform-native UI controls. RSS's challenge has never been apps, it's support from publishers to keep using open formats.
I'd also say a large part of its issue is lack of internal consistency of the format itself. Firstly there are the various official RSS versions, then there are all those Atom things and probably others as well, and then there's the thing about how you're supposed to render the things correctly. XML as the content format is also pretty much antiquated. A modern format would no doubt have to be JSON- or YAML-based and…
Two words: News. Blur. I have been using https://newsblur.com for years now (ever since Google Reader died) and am not switching to anything else soon. RSS is not dead.
Glad to pay for it to keep it running.
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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.
I hate Feedly's UI. Sorry
That said, pleasantly speedy! Nice work. There are a fair number of minor UI glitches (suggestions list frequently flickers when going to/from it, follow/unfollow can sometimes escape bounds of window and cause scrollbars, etc) but overall it feels pretty nice. I'll give it a try for a while.
If you're taking recommendations though:
- It'd be really awesome if I could paste a URL into the search field and have one of the options be "add a new feed" rather than clicking the +.
- And the "featured" section is probably a decent intro to new users (keep it!), but I'm unlikely to ever use it, and it's taking up a LOT of real-estate. Maybe an option to hide it / make it able to scroll away, to give more room for the stuff you already follow below.
I'm still angry (ish) at google for killing google reader, it met my RSS needs really nicely. I use feedly now. Which is pretty good. For me having it has a web site is most useful, rather than a device oriented thing that manages feeds.
I tried Feedly but gave up when their nginx LB timed out after a minute because my OPML import was a big file. Plus, the interface does not feel like an RSS reader, as somebody else points out.
> I love using RSS to follow the programming and tech news I care about. Unfortunately, the number of sites supporting RSS has been in rapid decline over the last few years. The reader ecosystem is slowly degrading as well. After that introduction I was hoping Winds would be some kind of proxy that creates an RSS for sites that don't have one. But well, it's just another RSS reader. Those have actually never gone way…
For reasons I don't understand, it remains incredibly difficult to scrape a well-organized blog and turn it into something I can consume like RSS or a kindle book. Note that many/most WordPress RSS feeds aren't that useful because they only show a snippet rather than the entire post. This dreary state of affairs is due in part to the fact that "checking" an RSS just means downloading the entire file containing all po…