Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
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@tg @brentsimmons I also struggled with the „x unread email“-stress I felt from many RSS Clients. But then I installed Reeder 4 on iOS and found out: it’s so much better than all the other clients. No red tags with 1200 unread items…
@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 — 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 I’m 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 — 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 I’ve 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 — 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 😳 At this moment, my email unread is 998. BTW, a large percentage of my email is “phantom” obligation. In fact, probably 90% of it.
Oh, hi Brent. Here’s some more phantom obligation for you.
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@tg @irix @brentsimmons #TapestryApp by @Iconfactory is the first I’ve 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 doesn’t have to look like email at all, I think we’ve done a good job of demonstrating that. I’m pretty proud of Tapestry. Designing it was one of the most fun, and toughest challenges I’ve ever had.
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@simon_w @tg @irix @brentsimmons @Iconfactory Thanks for the shoutout. RSS doesn’t have to look like email at all, I think we’ve done a good job of demonstrating that. I’m pretty proud of Tapestry. Designing it was one of the most fun, and toughest challenges I’ve 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 😳 At this moment, my email unread is 998. BTW, a large percentage of my email is “phantom” obligation. In fact, probably 90% of it.
Oh, hi Brent. Here’s 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 doesn’t have to look like email at all, I think we’ve done a good job of demonstrating that. I’m pretty proud of Tapestry. Designing it was one of the most fun, and toughest challenges I’ve 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 — 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.