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Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by willywanker » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 9:38 AM UTC

dinkleberg wrote: post #152

It is kind of wild to admit, but the bottom of this article made me think about the fact that RSS readers can be local apps for the first time ever... I've always used hosted services and run my own Miniflux server. But a quick search revealed a nice native linux reader: https://gfeeds.gabmus.org/ .

They always could be local. Thunderbird, MS Outlook and other email clients have supported it for years. Plus there's dedicated desktop feed readers like the Qt based QuiteRSS, which I use.

On Android there's the open source Feeder from F-droid.

There's no rule that says a feed reader HAS to be a webapp.

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by GTP » Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 2:08 PM UTC

alwillis wrote: post #250

GTP wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given Steve Jobs' character, there may be another reason behind it: that year, before the decision to stop supporting Flash, Adobe broke their agreement with Apple by releasing Photoshop for PCs before the version for Mac for the first time. This could sound as a conspiracy teory, and I don't know how much evidence we have that this might have been the reason (or one of the reasons) behind the decision. But, given Jo…

> Given Steve Jobs' character, there may be another reason behind it: that year, before the decision to stop supporting Flash Flash was never supported on iOS; Steve's letter was to confirm Apple wasn't ever going to support Flash on iOS; it remained available on MacOS. I don't think the Photoshop thing had any affect on supporting Flash on iOS.

You're right, I did a quick search and apparently they still considered supporting it though [0], but they didn't they the results they were hoping for.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/27/apple-tried-to-help-adobe-bri...

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by wyclif » Wed, Oct 08, 2025, 4:27 AM UTC

brycewray wrote: post #116

wyclif wrote: post #108

NetNewsWire will choke out on you if you have a large number of feeds, because of the way it is designed.

https://netnewswire.com/help/iCloud.html

Launch NetNewsWire and don’t close it until the sync is complete. If you close it before the sync is complete, you will have to start all over again

Yeah, that's not going to be a workable solution for me. I wish they would stop using iCloud and switch to a different provider that didn't have those limitations.