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We've found the only user in the world that used RSS in Mail! I feel a bond, as I was apparently the only user of RSS in Safari. (as confirmed by informal poll

by jws 14y ago

We've found the only user in the world that used RSS in Mail! I feel a bond, as I was apparently the only user of RSS in Safari. (as confirmed by informal polling of friends and family). I moved my stuff into Google Reader and also went to Reeder on the Mac, but tried Newsify on the iOS devices and have to say that a custom newspaper is a much better experience than the hundred takes on master-detail drill down you find in the typical RSS reader. I resent Apple killing my feature, but I am better off going forward. I should have switched long ago. And I don't live in Stockholm.

emehrkay 14y ago
I used it in mail, didnt need a separate app for it. Only problem was that it didnt sync, like I assume reeder does with google services
jakejake 14y ago
I guess I'm still hanging on to old tech too. I likes rss in mail because I leave mail open all day and use several feeds more as a notification system. Now I have to remember to open another app and leave it open all day as well which is annoying. I understand somebody has written a plugin to add rss back to safari. I'm kinda hoping somebody does the same for mail.
jseliger 14y ago
And I'm the last person who uses the NetNewsWire desktop client. It's kind of buggy, and a better user interface would be nice, but it works well enough most of the time.
- jacobolus 14y ago
  No way. Tons of people use NNW. The original and still the best. :)
- msbarnett 14y ago
  I still use it too. It's the only RSS reader I can find for OS X that lets me set it up in my preferred "River of News" display format (what NNW calls 'combined view'). All feeds in one big stream, no 3-panel Mail-style separation of titles and content. Just scroll and read. If anyone knows a cleaner, less ugly, less buggy RSS reader for OS X that can display feeds in this way, I'd love to hear about it.
  - jfb 14y ago
    Reeder. It unfortunately syncs with Google, but otherwise, it's tops.
    - msbarnett 14y ago
      Really? Nothing in any screenshots suggest it can be set up this way. Instead it looks like there's a list of synopses on the left which you must click to view a full story on the right?
      - jfb 14y ago
        I navigate without mousing: https://homonculus.net/images/reeder.png https://homonculus.net/images/reeder.png What Reeder shows on the left is the summary of the article; one can read the original by right arrowing. Many of my feeds put the full article into the summary. I navigate up and down the list (which is all of my feeds sorted by date ascending) with the j/k keys. I don't know how NNW does it. Or did it.
        msbarnett 14y ago
        It sounds nice and all, but it's definitely not a River of News style reader. RoN style is one pane, all of the stories from all feeds laid out, newest to oldest, in one pane, and you just scroll through them reading when something looks interesting. Think the way planet aggregators work.
        jfb 14y ago
        Got it. I'd like that, actually. I approximate it now, but I'm not concerned with the feeds themselves, just the new items. Hmm.
        msbarnett 14y ago
        There's an actual app called River of News for the iPad that does it quite well, but no Mac version, sadly. NNW can be configured to work this way, but it's a bit clunky. Everything else I've seen seems to go with a standard Mail-type setup.
- ralfd 14y ago
  NetNewsWire for the win!
davidcollantes 14y ago
:-) Not just the only user in the world that used RSS in Mail.app, but one of the few who uses Mail.app, period! I have tried to use Mail.app (always with Gmail) many times, and have always gone back to use either the web interface, or more recently, Sparrow (R.I.P.).
meric 14y ago
I had just finished implementing RSS on a website I was working for a client, making sure it worked for Safari, and that was yesterday. =\
- kalleboo 14y ago
  Your work is not in vain, it's not as if everyone is going to switch to Mountain Lion anyway, if we look at the poor adoption numbers of Lion. http://imgb.mp/ivu.jpg http://imgb.mp/ivu.jpg
  - mhurron 14y ago
    A lot of that is because of the hardware that supported Snow Leopard that wasn't supported in Lion. I'm one of those. Contrary to popular belief, no not all and probably most Mac users do not replace their MacBooks every year or two. I will be using Snow Leopard until the hardware I have completely dies.
    - r00fus 14y ago
      Hear, hear. I have just recently donated (to a friend) a fully functional (and very fast) early '06 Mac Mini with an SSD upgrade running 10.6. 6 years has been kind to that machine, with minimal upgrades (RAM 3 years ago, SSD and 10.6 last year).
  - briandear 14y ago
    For more fun, let's look at the adoption numbers of Jelly Belly or whatever the Android crowd calls it these days. Let's not even open the can of worms that is Windows adoption rates.
    - lazugod 14y ago
      ...in this case, poor adoption is useful.
  - Someone 14y ago
    That is a bit disingenuous, as the article this comes from (http://insights.chitika.com/2012/mountain-lion-roars-captures-3-2-share-in-first-48-hours/ http://insights.chitika.com/2012/mountain-lion-roars-capture...) claims Mountain Lion looks like it will do much better than Lion.

by jws 14y ago

emehrkay 14y ago

I used it in mail, didnt need a separate app for it. Only problem was that it didnt sync, like I assume reeder does with google services

jakejake 14y ago

I guess I'm still hanging on to old tech too. I likes rss in mail because I leave mail open all day and use several feeds more as a notification system. Now I have to remember to open another app and leave it open all day as well which is annoying. I understand somebody has written a plugin to add rss back to safari. I'm kinda hoping somebody does the same for mail.

jseliger 14y ago

And I'm the last person who uses the NetNewsWire desktop client. It's kind of buggy, and a better user interface would be nice, but it works well enough most of the time.

jacobolus 14y ago
No way. Tons of people use NNW. The original and still the best. :)
msbarnett 14y ago
I still use it too. It's the only RSS reader I can find for OS X that lets me set it up in my preferred "River of News" display format (what NNW calls 'combined view'). All feeds in one big stream, no 3-panel Mail-style separation of titles and content. Just scroll and read. If anyone knows a cleaner, less ugly, less buggy RSS reader for OS X that can display feeds in this way, I'd love to hear about it.
- jfb 14y ago
  Reeder. It unfortunately syncs with Google, but otherwise, it's tops.
  - msbarnett 14y ago
    Really? Nothing in any screenshots suggest it can be set up this way. Instead it looks like there's a list of synopses on the left which you must click to view a full story on the right?
    - jfb 14y ago
      I navigate without mousing: https://homonculus.net/images/reeder.png https://homonculus.net/images/reeder.png What Reeder shows on the left is the summary of the article; one can read the original by right arrowing. Many of my feeds put the full article into the summary. I navigate up and down the list (which is all of my feeds sorted by date ascending) with the j/k keys. I don't know how NNW does it. Or did it.
      - msbarnett 14y ago
        It sounds nice and all, but it's definitely not a River of News style reader. RoN style is one pane, all of the stories from all feeds laid out, newest to oldest, in one pane, and you just scroll through them reading when something looks interesting. Think the way planet aggregators work.
        jfb 14y ago
        Got it. I'd like that, actually. I approximate it now, but I'm not concerned with the feeds themselves, just the new items. Hmm.
        msbarnett 14y ago
        There's an actual app called River of News for the iPad that does it quite well, but no Mac version, sadly. NNW can be configured to work this way, but it's a bit clunky. Everything else I've seen seems to go with a standard Mail-type setup.
ralfd 14y ago
NetNewsWire for the win!

davidcollantes 14y ago

:-) Not just the only user in the world that used RSS in Mail.app, but one of the few who uses Mail.app, period! I have tried to use Mail.app (always with Gmail) many times, and have always gone back to use either the web interface, or more recently, Sparrow (R.I.P.).

meric 14y ago

I had just finished implementing RSS on a website I was working for a client, making sure it worked for Safari, and that was yesterday. =\

kalleboo 14y ago
Your work is not in vain, it's not as if everyone is going to switch to Mountain Lion anyway, if we look at the poor adoption numbers of Lion. http://imgb.mp/ivu.jpg http://imgb.mp/ivu.jpg
- mhurron 14y ago
  A lot of that is because of the hardware that supported Snow Leopard that wasn't supported in Lion. I'm one of those. Contrary to popular belief, no not all and probably most Mac users do not replace their MacBooks every year or two. I will be using Snow Leopard until the hardware I have completely dies.
  - r00fus 14y ago
    Hear, hear. I have just recently donated (to a friend) a fully functional (and very fast) early '06 Mac Mini with an SSD upgrade running 10.6. 6 years has been kind to that machine, with minimal upgrades (RAM 3 years ago, SSD and 10.6 last year).
- briandear 14y ago
  For more fun, let's look at the adoption numbers of Jelly Belly or whatever the Android crowd calls it these days. Let's not even open the can of worms that is Windows adoption rates.
  - lazugod 14y ago
    ...in this case, poor adoption is useful.
- Someone 14y ago
  That is a bit disingenuous, as the article this comes from (http://insights.chitika.com/2012/mountain-lion-roars-captures-3-2-share-in-first-48-hours/ http://insights.chitika.com/2012/mountain-lion-roars-capture...) claims Mountain Lion looks like it will do much better than Lion.