Hacker News Reader

You get it. <3

I get a good number of Github issues with people who want it to act like a normal reader. So there is good reason that most RSS readers act like an inbox. It's just a general expectation.

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It's probably related to some sort of FOMO: you're following someone on a website, so you want to know when they have something new to say. But then there's the other side of the coin where you get all news from all sources, and you get drowned in your inbox and must declare Email bankruptcy. We are lead to believe everything is important and we must be notified as soon as it happens but our brains are not wired for constant influx of information.

This is also another reason I love Fraidycat: I _know_ it's fetching content a few times a day, so I don't need to check every 5 minutes. There's very little chance I'm going to miss anything critical if I only read about it a few days after it happened, and that's fine. It has reduced (slightly, ngl) my tendency to F5 on news sources and procrastination. I don't check as often for content, and when I do I know I'm going to spend some time on it.

Thanks for pushing for more slow web, whether it was intentional or not :)

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