Vienna Rss Viewer For Mac
I use — it’s a web interface and service with apps available for iOS and Android. The code is open source and actively developed, which gives me peace of mind when I pay my yearly subscription. On my Mac I tried liking Reeder 3, but TBH NewsBlur’s web interface is better. Reeder can use NewsBlur’s API and the syncing between mobile and desktop is nice to have. NewsBlur’s author has been very responsive to issues and has been actively improving the service. I also tried self-hosting various web solutions but it’s too much of a hassle, a constant security risk and paying for a VPS ends up being more expensive.
I've been using the free version of NewsBluer and the paid versions of Reeder3 on OSX and iOS for over a year now and I'm really with it (no affiliation with either). For an one-off payment of 18$ (for the Reeder apps) I think its pretty great. The free NewsBlur does remove unread items older than 7 days or so I believe but the paid version raises that up to a month or so.
Through the combination I get a very good sync of my read, and starred items and Reeder 3 offers some nifty integrations with services like Pinboard and a decent built-in browser and a 'text only' version of the website which makes it easier to read in a small screen. only developer app on my computer that doesn't feel out of place VS Code feels nothing like any other app on my Mac. The window chrome doesn't look like a Mac app. Resizing a window resizes like an app from the 90s (content doesn't layout until the resize finishes, only the window border resizes live). The scroll bars aren't consistent with any other app, neither are the tabs.
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Scrolling content doesn't overscroll and rubberband like other scroll views. You might personally prefer the UI in VS Code, but it is the poster child for 'strange UI' on that platform. Obnoxious letter author here, just to clarify: I'm not stingy and I bought all versions of Reeder on iOS and two versions for macOS. It's not about the 10 bucks, I just don't want to find a new solution / problem every time it goes through stretches of no activity for years, breaks on new OS versions or crashes frequently like some people here reported too. If there's an app with subscription pricing where I know it's a sustainable app for the developer and it'll get adapted to support new macOS features (or updated APIs like you said) then I'm happy to do that. I don't need updates every month, I just want to know that if there's a problem the developer will deal with it at some point. inbox got a bit out of hand by having too many unread items piled up.
I slowly stopped looking at them before abandoning the idea completely And this is precisely why it's insane and counterproductive to have unread counts on an RSS feed. Don't obsess over reading every last article.
Read what looks interesting. Let other things go. Don't track what you've read or what you've missed. There's nothing down that path but frustration and stress.
And yet, almost no RSS developers see the wisdom in this, and they prefer to embrace the dumb idea with open arms. As someone who next to a Mac also uses Windows I just gave up on native RSS apps. Somehow RSS (or Twitter) apps never got traction on Windows. There are some nice self-hosted RSS aggregators but in the end I just 'solved' this problem by subscribing to Inoreader. Its web app is convenient, resource-friendly and has more features than I will ever need. Their Android app also looks very polished.
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It is reliable to fetch article contents for header only feeds and because most RSS feeds are just pointers to web content I am just fine with not having a native app on my Mac/PC. Tangentially, I'm looking for a good RSS reader for iOS (preferably free and well designed, but paid ones are ok too). I used to use Pulse, but it was bought by LinkedIn and completely messed up after that. Then I switched to using Apple News to follow some sites.
But News is not a proper RSS reader as such, and Apple has done little to improve it since it was released with iOS 9 — still supported and available only in a few countries, cannot add RSS feeds, cannot find certain sites through a search, and very weird bugs if one switches the region setting. It's basically abandonware, as far as feature richness and expansion are concerned. Three years on, I still don't understand why the app cannot be available worldwide and work as a feed reader too. I've tried Flipboard, but I don't like the fancy magazine-like layout and navigation (which I find unintuitive).