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I abandoned Apple News pretty quickly as it became clear that it requires a dedicated person maintaining Apple News support.
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Which RSS reader do you use?
I use a terminal RSS reader called newsboat[1][2], which is an actively developed fork of newsbeuter. It's pretty feature rich, fast, keyboard-oriented (supporting vi movement keys), and works great in the terminal. Another great thing about it is that it runs completely on my own machine, so I don't have to give away information about my reading preferences to any third party, as would be the case for any hosted RSS…
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I use a terminal RSS reader called newsboat[1][2], which is an actively developed fork of newsbeuter. It's pretty feature rich, fast, keyboard-oriented (supporting vi movement keys), and works great in the terminal. Another great thing about it is that it runs completely on my own machine, so I don't have to give away information about my reading preferences to any third party, as would be the case for any hosted RSS…
I love newsbeuter, it's how I get all latest news about the death of RSS :)
Apple News was already flakey and unreliable in the sources (websites) it would allow to be added. With its highly limited geographical availability (years after launching) and its problematic focus on News+, I switched back to a plain RSS Reader to follow specific sites. Apple News seems like a niche product with hardly any technical effort put into it. In comparison, Google News, with its ads, generally looks like…
Which RSS reader do you use?
The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom/RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you'll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error. Here's a video I recorded of this behaviour: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1210622908143415297 I think I'd rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL…
For the link hijacking, it's worth noting that Apple News only exists/is pre-installed in a handful of markets and is uninstallable. But yeah, baffling.
Apple News was already flakey and unreliable in the sources (websites) it would allow to be added. With its highly limited geographical availability (years after launching) and its problematic focus on News+, I switched back to a plain RSS Reader to follow specific sites. Apple News seems like a niche product with hardly any technical effort put into it. In comparison, Google News, with its ads, generally looks like…
Which RSS reader do you use?