[njsubedi]

Wow, this app has presented RSS reader as a cool new app in the market. Kudos to whoever wrote the copy for the landing page. I’m convinced to give it a try to experience a “synced” experience because I don’t have a RSS feed reader on my phone. I use Thunderbird on my mac for mail and RSS feeds because everything I need to read is right there in the same app.

[tobr]

It might be cool, but definitely not new! It just turned 20. https://netnewswire.com/history

[bigiain]

Yeah, I remember it from way back. I can’t recall why I stopped using it, I’ve been using Feedly for RSS for 5 or 10 years now.

[epistasis]

I switched from NNW to something else, I think something that synced with mobile perhaps, but was based on Google's RSS infrastructure.

And then Google killed their RSS infrastructure, and I stopped using RSS entirely.

I am mostly to blame in this, for trusting Google, but at least it was a lesson on something like RSS instead of something absolutely essential, like email. I soon transitioned away from Google for all essential internet services, and will never depend upon them again for anything.

[kaushikc]

Any service of Google that is not considered as a core by them cannot be relied upon at all.

[njsubedi]

Of course! I meant the same.

> It’s like podcasts — but for reading.

[vincode]

Brent Simmons did the copy and is an amazing writer. He doesn't write publicly as much as he used to, but his back catalog on inessential.com is very entertaining and informative.

[alexchantavy]

+1 about the well written copy. What's old is new again :). Maybe people will return back to individual hobby forums/BBSs. A long time ago I used to RSS subscribe to individual forums instead of relying on FB or Reddit. I do like Reddit for the most part but hate how only recent threads have any kind of visibility.