Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

NetNewsWire Turns 23

netnewswire.blog

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 108 posts

Re: NetNewsWire Turns 23

#51

Post by Telemakhos »

alsetmusic wrote: post #44

First 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.

I'm using the older (non-subscription) Reeder too. How does NetNewsWire compare in features today?

Re: NetNewsWire Turns 23

#52

Post by k2enemy »

xp84 wrote: post #47
navanchauhan wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

At one point (when I first tried this) I'm pretty sure youtube didn't have a link to an rss feed in the source. I had grown used to going to source and searching for "rss" and "xml." However, I just checked and they definitely do have a link now!

Re: NetNewsWire Turns 23

#55

Post by Dracophoenix »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #30
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #8

Hands down the best RSS reader I've used. It's fast, tiny, built extremely well, and has no flab. It sits in a certain class of application along with Alfred and a handful of others in being a standout example of craftsmanship that's reminiscent of the golden era of OS X. More apps should strive for this standard.

I wish it had a more accessible scripting API - I use it locally, and back up saved stories, but I have to directly hit their sqlite database to extract data out of it :/

That's the issue with most RSS client I've used. The feeds are portable but the data and metadata aren't. I wish there was a permanent solution to this problem.

Re: NetNewsWire Turns 23

#56

Post by josh64 »

chmaynard wrote: post #41

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.

Vienna will support older MacOS releases for longer. Our development has been slow the past couple of years due to maintainers having big life changes. Things are about to pick up so keep an eye out!

Re: NetNewsWire Turns 23

#57

Post by username223 »

chmaynard wrote: post #41

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.

Don't be sad! NetNewsWire has been my newsreader for well over a decade, and I only consider "upgrading" out of idle curiosity, because the version I have now does what I want, and does it well. The version treadmill is a machine producing only sadness.

Re: NetNewsWire Turns 23

#58

Post by raw_anon_1111 »

colesantiago wrote: post #38

I wish more software was actually free and didn't need a subscription. We need more software that is free, open source and comes with no subscriptions.

I also wish that other people would do work for me for free.

Brent Simmons is retired. Most app developers aren’t

Post reply on HN