{"id":22245,"date":"2018-07-24T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22245"},"modified":"2018-07-26T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:22:26","slug":"the-state-of-rss-on-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/the-state-of-rss-on-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of RSS on the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.notmyhostna.me\/sad-state-of-rss-on-the-mac\/\">Philipp<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davewiner\/status\/1020463620059168774\">Dave Winer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=17577442\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.notmyhostna.me\/sad-state-of-rss-on-the-mac\/\">\n<p>There are not that many great feed readers for macOS right now that work with the Fever API and have the Look &amp; Feel of a native Mac app and I&rsquo;m hoping that I missed one that matches my criteria:<\/p><ul><li>Support for the Fever API<\/li><li>Native Mac app, no Electron<\/li><li>Not ugly<\/li><li>Optional: Bonus points if there&rsquo;s also an app for iOS<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>What mostly sparked my blog post was that the two apps which looked most promising seem to have been abandoned or buggy to the degree that they are unusable. There's a big selection of very polished and feature-rich apps for iOS but the counterpart for macOS seems to be missing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m currently using <a href=\"https:\/\/readkitapp.com\">ReadKit<\/a>, and fortunately it is not crashing for me the way it is for him. It does seem to be neglected, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ranchero.com\/evergreen\/\">Evergreen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/betamagic.nl\/products\/newsexplorer.html\">News Explorer<\/a> are both promising newcomers, and there is always <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ViennaRSS\/vienna-rss\">Vienna<\/a>&mdash;but I don&rsquo;t think any of these supports the Fever API (which I also use via <a href=\"https:\/\/git.tt-rss.org\/fox\/tt-rss\/wiki\">Tiny Tiny RSS<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-25): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/rockysandstudio.com\">Leaf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkmac.co.uk\/mac-apps\/newslife\/\">NewsLife<\/a> (alas, neither syncs with Fever).<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-26): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/software\/mozilla-to-remove-support-for-built-in-feed-reader-from-firefox\/\">Catalin Cimpanu<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=17617821\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/software\/mozilla-to-remove-support-for-built-in-feed-reader-from-firefox\/\"><p>Mozilla engineers are preparing to remove one of the Firefox browser&rsquo;s oldest features &mdash;its built-in support for RSS and Atom feeds, and inherently, the &ldquo;Live Bookmarks&rdquo; feature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcMasVi\/status\/1021907820504002560\">MarcMV<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcMasVi\/status\/1021907820504002560\">\n<p>Not sure if you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivernewsapp.com\">RiverNews<\/a> also a newcomer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philipp (via Dave Winer, Hacker News): There are not that many great feed readers for macOS right now that work with the Fever API and have the Look &amp; Feel of a native Mac app and I&rsquo;m hoping that I missed one that matches my criteria:Support for the Fever APINative Mac app, no ElectronNot uglyOptional: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-26T19:22:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"f7db770c-fdd0-49b0-9795-a33c0d3706db","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-26T19:22:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A99t3DP3QSbCXlaM8DTcG2w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1528,485,279,1708,30,32,1529,392,1706,1707,491,487,1709,52,1475,1450],"class_list":["post-22245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evergreen","tag-fever","tag-firefox","tag-leaf","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-13","tag-netnewswire","tag-news-explorer","tag-newslife","tag-readkit","tag-reeder","tag-rivernews","tag-rss","tag-tiny-tiny-rss","tag-vienna-rss"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22264,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22245\/revisions\/22264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}