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I've been building an RSS reader for the past year.

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  • Current, a new, calm RSS Reader

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    I’ve been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.Today it’s live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.Current, an RSS Reader, by @tgCurrent is a new RSS reader that takes a really interesting approach to how we consume feeds. Instead of treating your subscriptions as a to-do list with an ever-growing unread count, it presents your feeds as a river; articles flow in, linger for a while, and eventually fade away on their own.Although the app is mac / iOS only, and paid, it’s not completely closed. You can hook it up to existing RSS backends like Feedbin or Miniflux.The completionist part of me does miss the idea of reaching “inbox zero.” For me, inbox zero was never about obsessive consumption (or at least I like to think so); it was the permission to walk away. When I’ve read everything, I’m done. I can close the app and move on with my day. I wouldn’t want my RSS experience to turn into a TikTok-like endless scroll where I just keep going without thinking. Current isn’t exactly that though, and that’s where its velocity system gets really interesting.Each feed gets assigned a half-life that determines how long its articles stay visible. Breaking news fade away faster than blog posts for example. This means the app naturally surfaces content proportionally to its nature; a prolific news site won’t drown out the small blogs you actually care about. The pace of consumption adapts to the pace of creation, which feels much more respectful of both the reader’s attention and the author’s intent.On top of that, Current watches your reading patterns and offers suggestions to help you “quiet” noisy sources. If a feed floods your timeline with 18 articles in one day, or if you keep skipping posts from the same source, it’ll nudge you to rate-limit or mute it.I would give the app a try, but it’s iOS and mac-only so far, so I guess I’ll have to wait! 🙂
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    minimal #activitypub setup in just two days...12 posts60 followingover 9000 files (sic!)$ du -hd0 /var/snac && find /var/snac | wc -l61.8M /var/snac 9532$meanwhile #rss feed is just 9999 byteshttps://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss$ curl -s https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss | wc -c 9999thanks #snac2 for great defaults and working perfectly out of the box ❤️
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    I don't want AI in my browser, I just want the #RSS icon in the address bar to come back. I liked that.#Firefox
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    @ScottHansonDE @pfefferle Scott, I sent this to Matthias after we did the recording.https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/13/pony-somewhere/But “free beer” is a good idea too. 😀