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I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it

I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

simonw 8mo ago
NetNewsWire is SO good - both the macOS and iPhone apps. Real labor of love. We are very lucky to have it.
- conesus 8mo ago
  I was a NNW user for years and it's why I eventually built my own news reader. NNW had a lot of great features and I wanted to mostly keep them. You might find that NewsBlur takes a similar path but with a different set of opinions.
- reddalo 8mo ago
  I agree. I'm just sad that, since I'll personally never upgrade to Liquid (Gl)ass, they stopped updating NetNewsWire for macOS versions before Tahoe.
  - mashpanic 8mo ago
    I believe they just finished or are in beta to release the new version to older OS.
    - reddalo 8mo ago
      Wow, I've checked and that's true. I'm supper happy, didn't expect that. Thanks!
  - themadturk 8mo ago
    There is a new version for Sonoma and Sequoia! I am so happy.
miladyincontrol 8mo ago
Definitely my favorite mobile RSS app. Personally I keep it syncing off TTRSS for filtering and automatic actioning on certain feed entries, but that aint everyone's cup of tea. I'd like to think NNW at least covers most people's use cases whether standalone or relying off another service to aggregate.
nntwozz 8mo ago
Love it, also shoutout to NewsFire from the days of yore. https://newsfirex.com https://newsfirex.com Just look at it, NNW is still using the same great design.
sixtyj 8mo ago
RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.
- 6510 8mo ago
  There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder. edit: provide an example please
  - quectophoton 8mo ago
    Not exactly a "news" site, but this is still an example site that you'd expect would have a feed: https://mistral.ai/news/ https://mistral.ai/news/
    - olowe 8mo ago
      Mistral used to serve a feed actually up until 6ish months ago I guess? Their admin console used to be built with HTMX too which I found kinda interesting. Now the news site and admin console is all in Next.js and slow and no feed.
    - 6510 8mo ago
      will this do? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds/feed_mistral_news.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds... from here https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds
  - crabmusket 8mo ago
    Here's an example https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-are-RSS-feeds-no-longer-being-updated https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...
    - aragilar 8mo ago
conesus 8mo ago
Seriously. I've been updating NewsBlur with all the pet features people have wanted for years and I'm finding that it's even more enjoyable now with all those AI features built in. Daily briefing, ask AI, story clustering, all of these are AI-flavored improvements to RSS and it's so relaxing to open up my river of news and scroll through all the good stuff without feeling a gross algorithm surfacing endless outrage. I read plenty of X as well as scroll through various social media apps and nothing comes close to how great RSS feels to read.
lproven 8mo ago
You jogged my memory and I downloaded it, after a small detour trying to find a version that'll run on my 11YO iMac. I have a whole collection of feeds alread, which I have no knowledge of at all. Many I've never even heard of. Is this a default thing, or was I accidentally bookmarking RSS feeds or something years ago and never knew?

simonw 8mo ago

NetNewsWire is SO good - both the macOS and iPhone apps. Real labor of love. We are very lucky to have it.

conesus 8mo ago
I was a NNW user for years and it's why I eventually built my own news reader. NNW had a lot of great features and I wanted to mostly keep them. You might find that NewsBlur takes a similar path but with a different set of opinions.
reddalo 8mo ago
I agree. I'm just sad that, since I'll personally never upgrade to Liquid (Gl)ass, they stopped updating NetNewsWire for macOS versions before Tahoe.
- mashpanic 8mo ago
  I believe they just finished or are in beta to release the new version to older OS.
  - reddalo 8mo ago
    Wow, I've checked and that's true. I'm supper happy, didn't expect that. Thanks!
- themadturk 8mo ago
  There is a new version for Sonoma and Sequoia! I am so happy.

miladyincontrol 8mo ago

Definitely my favorite mobile RSS app. Personally I keep it syncing off TTRSS for filtering and automatic actioning on certain feed entries, but that aint everyone's cup of tea. I'd like to think NNW at least covers most people's use cases whether standalone or relying off another service to aggregate.

nntwozz 8mo ago

Love it, also shoutout to NewsFire from the days of yore. https://newsfirex.com https://newsfirex.com Just look at it, NNW is still using the same great design.

sixtyj 8mo ago

RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.

6510 8mo ago
There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder. edit: provide an example please
- quectophoton 8mo ago
  Not exactly a "news" site, but this is still an example site that you'd expect would have a feed: https://mistral.ai/news/ https://mistral.ai/news/
  - olowe 8mo ago
    Mistral used to serve a feed actually up until 6ish months ago I guess? Their admin console used to be built with HTMX too which I found kinda interesting. Now the news site and admin console is all in Next.js and slow and no feed.
  - 6510 8mo ago
    will this do? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds/feed_mistral_news.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds... from here https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds
- crabmusket 8mo ago
  Here's an example https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-are-RSS-feeds-no-longer-being-updated https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...
  - aragilar 8mo ago

conesus 8mo ago

Seriously. I've been updating NewsBlur with all the pet features people have wanted for years and I'm finding that it's even more enjoyable now with all those AI features built in. Daily briefing, ask AI, story clustering, all of these are AI-flavored improvements to RSS and it's so relaxing to open up my river of news and scroll through all the good stuff without feeling a gross algorithm surfacing endless outrage. I read plenty of X as well as scroll through various social media apps and nothing comes close to how great RSS feels to read.

lproven 8mo ago

You jogged my memory and I downloaded it, after a small detour trying to find a version that'll run on my 11YO iMac. I have a whole collection of feeds alread, which I have no knowledge of at all. Many I've never even heard of. Is this a default thing, or was I accidentally bookmarking RSS feeds or something years ago and never knew?