[barrowclift]

Based on the praise others have been giving this, I can't help but feel I'm reviewing a completely different app.

To me, supporting only Feedbin is a showstopper and woefully insufficient considering its contemporaries all support half a dozen or more RSS aggregators out of the box. I'm not about to completely switch providers just to try out a different RSS reader.

I also find it strange any development effort at all went into "On My Mac" as an option. Local-only RSS is functionally useless to me since at any given time I'm reading either on two different Macs, an iPad, or an iPhone. No RSS reader is an island!

I get it, it's open source and free, and I suppose if you value that over a product's functionality and usefulness, then NetNewsWire's the RSS reader for you. But for me, this is simply not good enough.

[KSS42]

Other feeds will be added: (https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/frequently-asked-questions)

I do use local-only RSS. I am still running an ancient version of Netnewswire (maybe 2.0). So, I do appreciate that option.

[Nextgrid]

Agreed. What I noticed with most other Mac RSS clients is that they omit a very obvious sync option: iCloud, even despite providing an iOS version.

I bought both the Mac and iOS version of Reeder and was very disappointed by the lack of iCloud support. It was quite pricey for an app that I never ended up using properly.

For now I’ve settled on News Explorer. I still miss Reeder’s UI but at least News Explorer actually works for me.

[chmaynard]

What a sad, pathetic comment. Apparently you have no appreciation for the interesting, important history of this app and how its original author decided to bring it back to life. If NewNewsWire 5.0 doesn't work for you, don't use it and keep your snark to yourself.

[tobr]

The complains give me a different appreciation of this: https://inessential.com/2019/08/20/immunization