News Explorer 2.0
Sidebar filters, or ‘Smart folders’ as Apple likes to call them, are now fully customizable. You can add as many filters as you like, and they are all synced across all your devices.
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Article comments are automatically downloaded and displayed in the Inspector panel when the article has a comment feed, public comment API, or when the source webpage uses Open Web comments. Being able to read comments directly in the app besides the article is really a nice experience, especially for feeds whose comments are as interesting as the articles themselves.
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The iCloud storage settings panel has a new setting, ‘Local iCloud sync modus’. With this, you can optimize your News Explorer sync infrastructure by assigning ‘Server’ modus to an always-running Mac, and using ‘Client’ modus on all other devices..
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Prefilters allow you to control which articles from a feed are allowed to be downloaded and which are not.
Amazingly, this is a free update. New licenses are $9.99 for Mac and $4.99 for iOS.
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That's odd, I'd've sworn that News Explorer was subscription software! But I checked and it turns out that I already bought it, but ultimately turned it away because of the slooooooooooow iCloud syncing which was always getting stuck. I am now back to using lire, which I note has some of the features mentioned here (e.g. iCloud server mode). Maybe I should be giving this another try.
@Michael Do you still use a self-hosted aggregator? If so which one?
Hi Michael, thanks so much for this post! Your RSS blog feed was a major motivation for implementing comments in News Explorer.
@Sebby No more self-hosting. Currently, I’m using NetNewsWire with both Feedbin and local feeds. But News Explorer has some interesting stuff so I’m going to take a look.
@Ron Cool, thanks!
Instant buy, at least to try out and I’m liking it a lot so far.
I do love NetNewsWire, and I have a lot of respect for the developer’s approach of keeping it truly free software. He doesn’t want money, he doesn’t owe anyone anything. Love it.
However, development is also a little slow for that reason, and I’m happy to pay a good price to encourage a developer to add more features. Love to see people putting a lot of work into great RSS and similar to help make the web easier to read, during these dark times we find ourselves in.
