[amadeuspagel]

> Do you see how different this was from the infinite scroll of current social media web sites and apps? The idea was that your newsfeed would be updated periodically. Maybe hourly, maybe only once a day. And the goal of your newsreader was to let you be caught up and finished before the next time it updated.

How is that desirable? Why would you want to finish reading something that might already be obsolete?

[rout39574]

The idea is that you control it. You're presented with the place you stopped following the thread, and you can certainly skip to the new hotness if you like, but if you want the intervening context it's right there.

That "maybe obsolete" state is -your- reading state.