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 threadDave bauer
@tg @brentsimmons There has to be another way! I used Google Reader, and took a long break from RSS after that. I have a personal FreshRSS but the reader-like UI just doesn't work, it just feels overwhelming.
Jan 29 at 12:17pmWeb
Show threadTerry GodierJan 29
@davebauerart @brentsimmons the beauty of freshrss is that it's g-reader compliant on the api side so you can use third party apps to read (if that's what you indeed want to do)
Show threadDave bauerJan 30
@tg @brentsimmons Oh that's handy! Thank you.