{"id":7538,"date":"2013-06-24T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2016-05-08T23:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:39:54","slug":"netnewswire-4-open-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/24\/netnewswire-4-open-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"NetNewsWire 4 Open Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Pasco<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

The basic game plan will be as follows:
1. Kick off the open beta
2. Continue our work on sync
3. Start rolling out sync to select beta testers
4. Continue to add cool features to NetNewsWire 4
5. Ship the completed version of NetNewsWire 4, including sync<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n

Here’s what I noticed first:<\/p>\r\n

    \r\n
  1. At first launch, it logged some assertion failures and reported “Your sites failed to import successfully. Enjoy NetNewsWire 4”. A few of my articles showed up under “All Unread,” but the list of sites was completely empty.<\/li>\r\n
  2. The user interface feels foreign, as it only<\/em> supports a widescreen view, Tab-keying between views doesn’t work properly, and there’s no way to open new (browser) tabs in the background.<\/li>\r\n
  3. A huge number of features have been removed, from smart lists to (nearly all) AppleScript support. Some pruning was due, but this is way too much, and there’s no indication of which features (aside from sync) will be returning.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    I’m glad to see that NetNewsWire is still being developed, but this looks for all intents and purposes like a whole new app, at an early stage of development. NetNewsWire 3 is one of my favorite apps ever. This beta is too rough to be part of my daily workflow. Worse, I am less sure after trying it that the app they plan to build will please me. If I didn’t have other apps to work on<\/a>, this would motivate me to start developing my own RSS reader.<\/p>\r\n

    Update (2013-07-08): Public Beta 2<\/a> seems to address none of these issues.<\/p>\r\n

    Update (2013-07-15): Neither does Public Beta 3<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

    Update (2013-09-10): Public Beta 7<\/a> restores the “Classic” (non-widescreen) layout.<\/p>\r\n

    Update (2013-12-03): Public Beta 12<\/a> restores the NetNewsWire 3 keyboard shortcuts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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