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.
Technically true, but when no server is involved (running on localstorage, etc) everything gets dramatically more flaky. The user experience would suffer.
Out of curiosity, is this take informed by relatively recent personal experience? I experimented with storing a bunch of data locally using OPFS with DuckDB/Wasm, and it seemed to work fine in Safari and Chrome.
It's more aggregated experience over time. These issues often don't surface in the short term but instead show up over time with bugs in implementations in particular browser versions and whatnot. In some cases data just gets wiped and in others it gets corrupted, and with no server component and any backups stored in the same medium as primary storage you're left without recourse.
"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.
Weak post. Money? You're already paying for some things apparently. Then going on to say you have no 'web app experience' so don't know what's involved. Making assumptions about what hosting and database requirements would cost. Maybe not that much? What if it was hosted on free tier cloud workers. You're already using free things via github. And someone paying for an account on feedbin whatever that is. A heroku hobby tier with free database option might cover all of this. So you don't know but somehow have a conclusion. I don't care for RSS readers or know what NetNewsWire's user base it like but didn't care for the slagging off of web app possibilities. Feels more like some ingrained mac user disdain.
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.)
I dunno, Google Reader was actually pretty good. I am also a NetNewsWire user…
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.
There are browser apis that could make it work as an app. Web app does not imply server side app
Technically true, but when no server is involved (running on localstorage, etc) everything gets dramatically more flaky. The user experience would suffer.
Out of curiosity, is this take informed by relatively recent personal experience? I experimented with storing a bunch of data locally using OPFS with DuckDB/Wasm, and it seemed to work fine in Safari and Chrome.
It's more aggregated experience over time. These issues often don't surface in the short term but instead show up over time with bugs in implementations in particular browser versions and whatnot. In some cases data just gets wiped and in others it gets corrupted, and with no server component and any backups stored in the same medium as primary storage you're left without recourse.
"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.
Weak post. Money? You're already paying for some things apparently. Then going on to say you have no 'web app experience' so don't know what's involved. Making assumptions about what hosting and database requirements would cost. Maybe not that much? What if it was hosted on free tier cloud workers. You're already using free things via github. And someone paying for an account on feedbin whatever that is. A heroku hobby tier with free database option might cover all of this. So you don't know but somehow have a conclusion. I don't care for RSS readers or know what NetNewsWire's user base it like but didn't care for the slagging off of web app possibilities. Feels more like some ingrained mac user disdain.