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Dean Mayers Jan 27

@tg I‘d love to try whatever you’re cooking up with regards to RSS.

I’ve been a big RSS guy since NetNewsWire 1.0. I’ve settled on Reeder on all my Apple devices but that is squarely in traditional territory. It’d be cool to see a new idea.

Fever was the last interesting idea in my books. Subscribe to a lot of feeds and let the big news bubble up. It’s feels like this is something an AI model would be perfect for.

Terry Godier Jan 27

@deandmx amazing! I’ll follow up with a test flight link when ready

Dean Mayers Feb 18

@tg Current is a very novel take on an RSS reader. I’m still finding my feet with it after using RSS the traditional email inbox way.

The main pain point I’m feeling initially, is the lack of images in the list view. I sub to a few image heavy feeds that I only now realised after they’re gone, that I choose to read based on the images I see as I scroll. An option to add them back in would be much appreciated.

It would be nice to see post author names in the River view like Reeder does also.

Terry Godier Feb 18

@deandmx trying very hard to walk the balance between too much and not enough. "just right" is what I'm after. I'll probably add a setting for this to enable if you want it, I'll ship it to test flight first to see what folks say.

Dean Mayers Feb 19

@tg This looks like a bug. Items disappear in the River as I scroll.

Terry Godier Feb 19

@deandmx thank you, very good video to help me diagnose. should be fixed today!

Dean Mayers Feb 20

@tg I think I’ve got another one.

On my Mac, when I’m caught up or stop I get the waterline as expected.

On my iPhone, I’ve never seen the waterline and when I return I’m sent straight to the top of the list.

Thanks for adding thumbnails to River! I’m not seeing as many I expected though. My feed list in other apps shows m thumbnails for the same posts?

@deandmx are you on 1.0.3 on phone? You should definitely be seeing the waterline.

As for the thumbnails, this is sort of v0.1 release of that feature. Right now it relies just on if the feed itself provides one, it doesn't proactively scrape the site for one for performance reasons (for now). But this will improve.

Dean Mayers Feb 20

@tg Yep 1.0.3 on iPhone. Tbh, I didn’t even know about the waterlines feature until I read the docs and installed the Mac version. I should add that I’ve not seen the waterline on iPad either.

Terry Godier Feb 20

@deandmx is your mac app open while you're opening the other platforms? i'm wondering if it's bypassing the waterline on both of those in favor of the one on mac

Dean Mayers Feb 20

@tg No, I’m mostly using the iPhone version.

I just now was using the iPad version, then opened the iPhone app and the iPad scrolled up to the iPhones position in the list, which always loads to the top. Neither showing the waterline.

Dean Mayers Feb 20

@tg What would be the cleanest way to nuke everything on all platforms to start again? I’m using FreshRSS for the backend so I don't mind restarting.

Dean Mayers Feb 20

@tg Sorry to spam issues at you! I only post because I care lol

There are layout issues on the clear data screen on iPhone and iPad.

Terry Godier Feb 20

@deandmx oof, this one will be fixed in 1.0.4

Dean Mayers Feb 20

@tg Sorry mate, another one. I must be having bad luck.

Terry Godier Feb 20

@deandmx no problem! please find every single bug so I can squash them! Can you email me a big ole list of whatever you've got? [email protected] or You can drop them over on the forum: https://forum.terrygodier.com if you feel like registering for something :D Just trying to be able to triage things more easily than bouncing between several channels if that's alright

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Dean Mayers Feb 20

@tg of course, I can imagine all your various inboxes are overflowing. I’ll use the forum going forwards if it’s easier to manage 🫡