Terry Godier’s new RSS reader Current “solves a problem that has haunted every chronological feed since Google Reader: a single prolific source drowning out everything else.”
“Every RSS reader I've used presents your feeds as a list to be processed. Items arrive. They're marked unread. Your job is to get that number to zero, or at least closer to zero than it was yesterday.
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“Current has no unread count. Not because I forgot to add one, or because I thought it would look cleaner without it. There is no count because counting was the problem.
“The main screen is a river. Not a river that moves on its own. You're not watching content drift past like a screensaver. It's a river in the sense that matters: content arrives, lingers for a time, and then fades away.
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“When The Verge posts twenty articles in a day, those articles age out in hours. When Craig Mod publishes once a month, that essay stays in your river for days. Because it was meant to.
“The onboarding shows you five speeds: Breaking, News, Article, Essay, Evergreen. You pick one per source. The river handles the rest.”
https://www.terrygodier.com/current
#RSS #design #ux #innovations h/t marina verdu, Cris Busquets
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@jwelby @zeldman Dave Winer is not advertising the "feels" enough :-)
Current is a pot full of emotions, designer website with feel well colors.
The selling sounds like it is not a tool at all. With Dave Winer the river metaphor was what it is a metaphor implemented as a solution. Not promising you to feel better once you use. But to simply work.
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Julius Welby
Lars Windolf