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 I built a feed reader called Stream that gives you a river of news view. That’s it. No list of blogs. Just a stream of news with a detail view when you select a row. It’s iOS only at the moment but it is coming for Mac.
@fahrni not available in germany
@cptpudding I’m sorry. I need to get signed up to a special Apple program that will let me list things in the EU App Stores. 😔
@fahrni Yes, the classic EU debate. I didn’t think you’d deliberately excluded us but I liked the app idea.
@cptpudding I’ve applied to the program but Apple kicked it back to me asking for more information and I’ve been dragging my feet.
@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.
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.
