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buchanae | 18 days ago

I love the philosophy page: https://netnewswire.com/philosophy.html

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We believe that apps should never crash. They should be free of bugs. They should be fast — they should feel lighter-than-air.

We believe that quality is more important than just piling on features; we believe that quality is the most important feature. And we believe that high quality is transformative — it makes for an app you never hesitate to reach for. You can rely on it, and you do, again and again.

This makes us slow to add features. We are adding features — but never at the expense of how it feels. Never at the expense of reliability and speed.

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eviks|18 days ago

Their new version 7 implements the lower quality design of liquid glass while also blocking all ios versions below the latest (so you can't get bug fixes and slow features with the better design). How does that fit the philosophy?

jxdxbx|18 days ago

I think it looks better (on Mac and iOS) than any other Liquid Glass app. And I can’t blame Brent for adopting it. One of the standout features of the app is just being native, not trying to re-invent the wheel with custom GUI, and taking advantage of built-in platform features.

My favorite NNW feature is iCloud syncing: Not needing a separate RSS back-end (but of course you can use one if you want to sync with other clients).

brailsafe|18 days ago

That's a tough one, but considering it's only the 7th major version to come out in 23 years, I'd say that's a fairly safe place to demarcate backwards compatibility, considering that it's (probably) a fairly major UI overhaul on both iOS and Mac. Despite the poor quality of the OSes themselves, it's just a small studio, gotta pick your battles carefully. You can still use the version you're using, and if you ever upgrade to the new OS you can get the new version, seems reasonable enough to me

busymom0|16 days ago

Sooner or later, they needed to adopt the Liquid Glass design. While Apple allows developers to temporarily add the UIDesignRequiresCompatibility flag to disable Liquid Glass in current iOS version, they are very clear that that flag is temporary and will go away next version. So they had to adopt it either now or next year even if they didn't want it.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/BundleResources/In...

> Temporarily use this key while reviewing and refining your app’s UI for the design in the latest SDKs