I've been trying the new Reeder as an RSS reader recently, and I'm really impressed.
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I've been trying the new Reeder as an RSS reader recently, and I'm really impressed. It's so different from how other readers work I wasn't sure I'd be able to get into it or not.
The big thing is it doesn't have unread counts anymore. Instead, you're intended to browse feeds like a social media timeline, and your position is synced between devices so you can pick up where you left off. It's surprisingly effective - it's helping me keep up to date with some feeds I used to miss.
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@[email protected] the idea of not having an unread count is so... sort of blowing my mind in how obvious it is. why do we keep track of what is "read" and what isn't? What purpose does it serve? Why is it necessary for the computer to know whether I accidentally or purposefully clicked on something?
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An absolutely killer feature for me is that you can pick how posts are rendered from a feed by default: you can pick between the HTML right from the feed, the full original webpage, or the webpage in a reader view. You can configure this *per feed*, not just per folder, which is really granular. I follow a number of blogs with opinionated and very readable webpage layouts, so it's nice to get to set those as the default view.
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@aud Right? I thought I'd miss it at first - like, oh, maybe I'll miss reading up on posts from certain feeds or something. But no! It turns out that having a chronological timeline of posts without a "read/unread" state means I'm *more* likely to read something, not less? It's great.
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@[email protected] It just made me think of all the unread email anxiety I get and I'm like, why the fuck are we replicating this idea for everything? For e-mail, with the way it's used, it does make some sense; lots of little short communiques or one off messages that you may need to keep track of.
But it kind of starts to make less sense outside of that context. Even outside of less personal email, it doesn't make sense; a long correspondence with a friend, for instance. I don't really care about 'read' or 'unread' in that context...
