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NetNewsWire Turns 23
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#62I'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!
Love Vienna! Been using it for years. Looking forward to updates
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#63I bought it the next month (had been using Lite for a few months prior) and I'm still using it. Continuously. I mean, damn.
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#64I love the philosophy page: https://netnewswire.com/philosophy.html """ 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…
Their new version 7 implements the lower quality design of liquid glass while also blocking all ios versions below the latest (so you can't get bug fixes and slow features with the better design). How does that fit the philosophy?
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#65This makes me really happy to see this non social media, non algo part of the internet going from strength to strength.
Having deleted my socials and regained some time, I’ve just got a small skeleton of the sites I used to read left in my phone’s favourites.
Despite all the wrongs of Facebook, et al, I have lost some channels and stories that I used to consume there.
How do users of readers like NNW discover new stuff? Just picking stuff up or do the apps support discovery?
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#66I love the philosophy page: https://netnewswire.com/philosophy.html """ 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…
Their new version 7 implements the lower quality design of liquid glass while also blocking all ios versions below the latest (so you can't get bug fixes and slow features with the better design). How does that fit the philosophy?
That's a tough one, but considering it's only the 7th major version to come out in 23 years, I'd say that's a fairly safe place to demarcate backwards compatibility, considering that it's (probably) a fairly major UI overhaul on both iOS and Mac. Despite the poor quality of the OSes themselves, it's just a small studio, gotta pick your battles carefully. You can still use the version you're using, and if you ever upgrade to the new OS you can get the new version, seems reasonable enough to me
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#67I’m not crazy about the Liquid Glass look. I decided to stick with Reeder Classic until it dies, even if it’s nice to see a well maintained alternative…
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Oh, thanks for the hint! I might be able to remove some code from my feed detection code (on pipes) then.
But on a first glance, it seems like alternate links for channels are back, but playlists are missing. Still, that might be a step forward.
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#69I'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.
I'm staying away from Tahoe for now as well, but are there any bugs in the 6.x release?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their new version 7 implements the lower quality design of liquid glass while also blocking all ios versions below the latest (so you can't get bug fixes and slow features with the better design). How does that fit the philosophy?
That's a tough one, but considering it's only the 7th major version to come out in 23 years, I'd say that's a fairly safe place to demarcate backwards compatibility, considering that it's (probably) a fairly major UI overhaul on both iOS and Mac. Despite the poor quality of the OSes themselves, it's just a small studio, gotta pick your battles carefully. You can still use the version you're using, and if you ever upg…
> gotta pick your battles carefully
Ok, and how is wasting time making the design worse to follow the OS instead of spending that time implementing missing features a carefully picked battle? I thought the philosophy was prioritizing quality
> You can still use the version you're using
Which would be missing bug fixes and those slow features the may be added next year