Even it’s own links no longer work : https://www.apple.com/rss/
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
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Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#182If you want RSS on Macos, take a look at Netnewswire: https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
And the iOS version is in public beta! https://nnw.ranchero.com/2019/12/22/netnewswire-for-ios.html
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#183Flipboard is better than any news app I’ve used
and it supports RSS feeds -- paste the link into the search box
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not convinced it's an abuse of power; it's a feature any developer can take advantage of. Your apps get their own protocol, so you can deep-link into one using a URI. But you can also register them to open certain contents natively. I'm not sure how it works, maybe there's some metadata in the HTML. You can see the same thing in action with the Jira app on Cataline now - any Jira link you click will load up and r…
In Android, an App's manifest designates which deep links it can handle. Then when the user clicks on a link, it gives the user the option of which app to use when there are multiple apps that can handle it. Maybe since at one point you did tell it you want to use news to handle it, it keeps going back to it? Although that means most likely the News app was not updated to remove support for that link. Or maybe iOS de…
issue with ios is that there is never any control over who handles what links. Apps can register custom protocols, but for common protocols that have an apple default (https, http, mailto being the main ones) you are stuck with what they decide. No option to even install an alternate such as Chrome or Gmail, and be prompted. And similarly, even though it's not a protocol, but more like a filetype, Apple News hijacks feed URLs and there's nothing anyone but Apple can do to change that.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have it uninstalled, but every time somebody sends me a link they read in Apple News, my phone prompts me to install the app and won’t show me the article unless I do.
That would be because they sent you a deep link into the app, not a regular link to a webpage. The same thing would happen if someone sent you e.g. a link to an item on the iTunes Store, or to a Spotify playlist.
This is an example of a url from the app:
https://apple.news/A4my1m78WSvGiuorZbkAUiQ
I thought deep links used something beside http to specify which app to open.
Regardless, I can’t open that link.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
However useful, I have a feeling that is more likely to be the exception rather than the rule and should therefore be prioritized accordingly
I don't see how Apple could've made it any easier. 1) Select any file. 2) Change the app in the "Open with" dropdown. 3) If you want it to apply to all files click the "Change all" button.
The fact that the upstream HN comment has to explain two identical-sounding options that do different things should help you see what's wrong with the current impl. Your steps don't work with the "Open With -> Options" context menu like they point out, but rather only with the "Get Info -> Open With" options. Not the best UX.
For example, I can imagine if there were instead two radio buttons in "Open With": "Always for this file", "Always for this extension". All in one place.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Android, an App's manifest designates which deep links it can handle. Then when the user clicks on a link, it gives the user the option of which app to use when there are multiple apps that can handle it. Maybe since at one point you did tell it you want to use news to handle it, it keeps going back to it? Although that means most likely the News app was not updated to remove support for that link. Or maybe iOS de…
AFAIU on iOS there are two types of deep linking. 1) Universal Links, which allow owners of domains to launch an app instead of Safari. For example, you might own the domain myawesomeapp.com, and therefore can redirect urls to e.g. myawesomeapp.com/do_things to launch your app. 2) Protocol links, these are completely locked down by iOS and there is no way to subvert them. For example, mailto links always open the mai…
You can also register your own protocol IIRC, eg “myawesomeapp://do_things”
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#188The 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…
Man, I saw this headline and thought "thank god, they'll finally stop hijacking RSS links" :(
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
However useful, I have a feeling that is more likely to be the exception rather than the rule and should therefore be prioritized accordingly
I don't see how Apple could've made it any easier. 1) Select any file. 2) Change the app in the "Open with" dropdown. 3) If you want it to apply to all files click the "Change all" button.
Doesn't work when Xcode is the default app. I use macdown for mathjax files for math.stackexchange.com, and I have to use "open with" to choose macdown every time.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love how, once you install Xcode, it becomes the default editor for a load of plain text formats. Yes Apple, I really do need to boot up a full blown, 7GB+ sized IDE to edit some markdown. Apparently TextEdit wasn't good enough.
If you aren't outraged that emacs or vi aren't the default, are you sure you're a typical HN reader?!
The outrage is that you can't change from Xcode.
I use macdown for mathjax files for math.stackexchange.com, and I have to use "open with" to choose macdown every time.