Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
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@tg fedi is wild, that you found Brent and got that history. Unreal haha
@jake4480 100% unexpected
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@jake4480 100% unexpected
@tg I've had some really wild, magical shit happen here. Love it. đ
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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 â and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
@tg @brentsimmons I also struggled with the âx unread emailâ-stress I felt from many RSS Clients. But then I installed Reeder 4 on iOS and found out: itâs so much better than all the other clients. No red tags with 1200 unread itemsâŚ
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@tg @brentsimmons I also struggled with the âx unread emailâ-stress I felt from many RSS Clients. But then I installed Reeder 4 on iOS and found out: itâs so much better than all the other clients. No red tags with 1200 unread itemsâŚ
@pphahnl the struggle is real!
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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 â and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
I had to check, but I must have disabled the NNW badge when the open source version was published years ago. Maybe because of this.
Still, books have bookmarks. If I use it as a library, the feed counts tell me what page Iâm on.
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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 â and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
@tg @irix @brentsimmons #TapestryApp by @Iconfactory is the first Iâve seen that tries something different (treats them as feed items) and that was already getting copied by other apps once it was announced
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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 â and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
@tg @brentsimmons These days my RSS unread count is fluctuating between 980 and 1100 đł At this moment, my email unread is 998. BTW, a large percentage of my email is âphantomâ obligation. In fact, probably 90% of it.
Oh, hi Brent. Hereâs some more phantom obligation for you.
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@tg @irix @brentsimmons #TapestryApp by @Iconfactory is the first Iâve seen that tries something different (treats them as feed items) and that was already getting copied by other apps once it was announced
@simon_w @tg @irix @brentsimmons @Iconfactory Thanks for the shoutout. RSS doesnât have to look like email at all, I think weâve done a good job of demonstrating that. Iâm pretty proud of Tapestry. Designing it was one of the most fun, and toughest challenges Iâve ever had.
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@simon_w @tg @irix @brentsimmons @Iconfactory Thanks for the shoutout. RSS doesnât have to look like email at all, I think weâve done a good job of demonstrating that. Iâm pretty proud of Tapestry. Designing it was one of the most fun, and toughest challenges Iâve ever had.
@gedeonm @simon_w @irix @brentsimmons @Iconfactory you /should/ be proud! it's an incredible app!
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@tg @brentsimmons These days my RSS unread count is fluctuating between 980 and 1100 đł At this moment, my email unread is 998. BTW, a large percentage of my email is âphantomâ obligation. In fact, probably 90% of it.
Oh, hi Brent. Hereâs some more phantom obligation for you.
@provuejim @brentsimmons my goodness, those numbers would have me sweating!
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@simon_w @tg @irix @brentsimmons @Iconfactory Thanks for the shoutout. RSS doesnât have to look like email at all, I think weâve done a good job of demonstrating that. Iâm pretty proud of Tapestry. Designing it was one of the most fun, and toughest challenges Iâve ever had.
@gedeonm @Iconfactory wow, that looks amazing. Shame nothing like that exists on android that I have found.
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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 â and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
@tg @brentsimmons FeedLand by @davew uses the River metaphor.
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@gedeonm @Iconfactory wow, that looks amazing. Shame nothing like that exists on android that I have found.
@yulian @Iconfactory Thank you!
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@tg @brentsimmons FeedLand by @davew uses the River metaphor.
thanks chuck. it's amazing to me someone could say something like that but that's where we are, a time when people just believe there's nothing new.
https://feedland.com/ is the place to start.
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thanks chuck. it's amazing to me someone could say something like that but that's where we are, a time when people just believe there's nothing new.
https://feedland.com/ is the place to start.
of if you want to get a quick look at what it's like using it.
that's the collection of feeds i follow.
help us get the word out.
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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 â and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
@tg @brentsimmons Some mobile apps, like OpenVibe and Tapestry, also stitch RSS feeds into the social stream alongside Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon posts. Also essentially the River metaphor.
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thanks chuck. it's amazing to me someone could say something like that but that's where we are, a time when people just believe there's nothing new.
https://feedland.com/ is the place to start.
@davew @cagrimmett @brentsimmons it's amazing that someone didn't know about something someone made on the internet?
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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 â and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
@tg @brentsimmons I built a feed reader called Stream that gives you a river of news view. Thatâs it. No list of blogs. Just a stream of news with a detail view when you select a row. Itâs iOS only at the moment but it is coming for Mac.
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Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 â and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
@tg A beautifully put together and presented essay. I have been playing with Reeders new look and Tapestry on Mac's and iOS. It feels easier on me, in that the anxiety drops off as the numbers disappear. I go back to the more familiar layout, and I lean towards the free flowâŚmiss someâŚthat's OK.
I'd be interested to see/test/try/learn more of what you are building.
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@tg A beautifully put together and presented essay. I have been playing with Reeders new look and Tapestry on Mac's and iOS. It feels easier on me, in that the anxiety drops off as the numbers disappear. I go back to the more familiar layout, and I lean towards the free flowâŚmiss someâŚthat's OK.
I'd be interested to see/test/try/learn more of what you are building.
@ctt thank you kindly for the offer! Soon!
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@aeva Put the ubuntu iso image on a usb key and insert it into the computer is all it takes, should be similar on other distros.
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Grazie ho letto la prima parte, spiegazione molto interessante, mi sono venuti dei dubbi, magari mi si chiariranno leggendo il resto.
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Alone season 8 watch thread. I hope there are less dead mammals, especially big ones, than in season 7. Not only is it nearly always a suboptimal strategy, it's depressing.
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Se senti che il tuo spazio di lettura digitale è diventato troppo stretto, affollato di pubblicitĂ o limitato da logiche commerciali, è il momento di guardare altrove. La risposta non è un nuovo sito web, ma un intero ecosistema: il Fediverso. E per noi lettori, la porta dâingresso principale si chiama Bookwyrm.
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