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Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App

56 points| frizlab | 5 months ago |inessential.com | reply

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[+] frizlab|5 months ago|reply
If NetNewsWire becomes a web app it would make me immensely sad. There’s no way a web app would feel as good as a native app, particularly this one.

(To be clear, I would immediately change my RSS reader.)

[+] EmmEff|5 months ago|reply
I dunno, Google Reader was actually pretty good. I am also a NetNewsWire user…
[+] rufus_foreman|5 months ago|reply
"I was 12 years old when I got my first computer, an Apple II Plus, and I’ve never stopped loving the freedom of having my own computer and being able to run whatever the hell I want to."

Pretty much the same here. Kick against the pricks, as difficult as it is, it's the only way.

[+] kh_hk|5 months ago|reply
There are browser apis that could make it work as an app. Web app does not imply server side app
[+] cosmic_cheese|5 months ago|reply
Technically true, but when no server is involved (running on localstorage, etc) everything gets dramatically more flaky. The user experience would suffer.
[+] not--felix|5 months ago|reply
My RSS reader is the main way i connect to the internet, most things in my reader are web links. I think a web RSS reader is a good, I can just open the links in the same app.