I'm staying away from macOS Tahoe for now. NetNewsWire has already announced that they will no longer support the earlier 6.x release that I use. I assume that means no bug fixes or back-porting of new features. Sad.
NetNewsWire Turns 23
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#42They update a little too slow for my taste. But, well… that’s the cost for high-quality free software: waiting. I’m happy to pay said cost, and continue to recommend it to friends and family where I can.
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#43I love NNW, especially the new iteration since Brent got it back. Mac-assed software at its best. The other day I was searching for how to turn a youtube channel into an RSS feed and tried all sorts of convoluted instructions for finding channel IDs, etc. At some point I thought this is the kind of user-centric thing that NNW has probably already thought of, and sure enough, if you just paste in a youtube channel URL…
> if you just paste in a youtube channel URL as the feed, NNW sorts it out and creates a feed for you.
While I don't doubt that NNW has great UX, feed auto-discovery is a table stakes feature for any RSS client.
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#44First RSS client I ever used. First for which I bought a license. Reeder client seduced me away while NNW was in limbo while Brent Simmons (creator) wasn't working on it directly. Glad he's back at the helm. I never unsubscribed from his blog.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you using NNW as a front-end to Miniflux?
Yea, as I bought Reeder a long time ago on iOS and got used to it. They all support Google Reader / Fever API so it all works great and I can use Miniflux web interface to read when I don’t have an app installed.
> Google Reader / Fever API
Ohhh, in NNW it goes via the FreshRSS. I had no idea, cheers. I've been using just iCloud sync fairly successfully.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It wasn’t at the time.
Your right! I found this[1] which says it was $10 at launch. So you paid $10 and helped support indie developers launch what, in time, evolved into an almost universally beloved app. That should feel pretty good. Your tiny investment helped create something great! [1] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2010/04/13/netnewswire-for-ipad/
Something to keep in mind is while it’s the same developer, the ownership history of NNW had a few rocky years.
At some point Brent Simmons started work on an entirely new RSS reader he was at the time calling Evergreen, intended only for the Mac at that point, and eventually he got the rights to NetNewsWire back. So there’s a break point between NetNewsWire the commercial software and NetNewsWire the open source project.
In many ways, the new NetNewsWire is a solid improvement, but it’s also missing a lot of features that the old NetNewsWire had since it was no longer his day job and he rethought a lot things. I don’t share the parent’s feelings but I can get why some people would still be a tinge salty about it, cuz for a period of time there NetNewsWire was pretty much in limbo, Brent was the developer but for most of its commercial life it was under the auspices of NewsGator and one of the companies that was supposed to keep it going (Black Pixel I think? It’s been a while and I’m going mostly off the dime here) basically didn’t do shit with it.
This was around the time of the run up to NetNewsWire 4.0. I think only NNW 4.0 Lite ended up shipping, and that was around the time the parent was paying $10.00 to run a version on his iPad for software that was from a reasonable customer’s perspective, entering its life support era. And then of course Google Reader was killed in the night a couple of years later, a sacrifice for Google+, and anybody still running NetNewsWire no longer had any good syncing options. That NetNewsWire was abandoned, and is still dead, but yes, the new one is pretty great.
So your positive spin doesn’t really land here. Not for anybody that was around at the time.
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#47I love NNW, especially the new iteration since Brent got it back. Mac-assed software at its best. The other day I was searching for how to turn a youtube channel into an RSS feed and tried all sorts of convoluted instructions for finding channel IDs, etc. At some point I thought this is the kind of user-centric thing that NNW has probably already thought of, and sure enough, if you just paste in a youtube channel URL…
I thought YouTube had native RSS feeds for channels?
It does - I think the praise being sung was just that you don't need to know how to construct them. YouTube doesn't have a little orange rectangle "RSS" link to click, or anything.
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#48Happy Birthday, NNW! Such an elegant app, that does one thing extremely well. Here's to 23 more years!.
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#49I love the philosophy page: https://netnewswire.com/philosophy.html
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We believe that apps should never crash. They should be free of bugs. They should be fast — they should feel lighter-than-air.
We believe that quality is more important than just piling on features; we believe that quality is the most important feature. And we believe that high quality is transformative — it makes for an app you never hesitate to reach for. You can rely on it, and you do, again and again.
This makes us slow to add features. We are adding features — but never at the expense of how it feels. Never at the expense of reliability and speed.
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#50Does it support Nextcloud news? Sadly that was the reason I had to switch to other readers a few years ago.