Terry GodierJan 27

Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.

@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 — and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.

That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).

https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation

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Phantom Obligation

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

Terry Godier
Show threadChuck GrimmettJan 28
@tg @brentsimmons FeedLand by @davew uses the River metaphor.
Show threadDave Winer ☕️

@cagrimmett @tg @brentsimmons

thanks chuck. it's amazing to me someone could say something like that but that's where we are, a time when people just believe there's nothing new.

https://feedland.com/ is the place to start.

FeedLand

The first full feed management system. Share lists of feeds with other users, both in and outside of FeedLand. Writing feeds, reading news.

FeedLand
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Show threadDave Winer ☕️Jan 28

@cagrimmett @tg @brentsimmons

of if you want to get a quick look at what it's like using it.

https://news.scripting.com/

that's the collection of feeds i follow.

help us get the word out.

news.scripting.com

Show threadMayoJan 28
@davew @cagrimmett @tg @brentsimmons Nothing against feedland or your news site (both are great, and thanks for the service), but the UI implementation you point to is not particularly new, different, or innovative. It pretty closely follows the existing paradigm - a list of links with excerpts (left pane of an email client) which when clicked open a new tab/window (right pane/window) of an email client.
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Jan 28

@mayo @cagrimmett @tg @brentsimmons

could you post a screen shot of what you're looking at? i have a feeling you're describing a different product. ;-)

Show threadTerry GodierJan 28
@davew @cagrimmett @brentsimmons it's amazing that someone didn't know about something someone made on the internet?