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Didn't go anywhere, probably because of ad revenue needs.
[1] https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.0-hig...
Big statement, maybe for you but for plenty people it seems to be interesting enough without those.
USGS Earthquakes being one, and that fills every slot.
I am unable to add any feeds I choose. I don't want a lot, maybe 3, just to see the UI and options I then have.
This feels pre-alpha.
Edit:
I have many RSS feeds (ty NetNewsWire). I have Bluesky, I have Mastodon, I have podcasts I follow ........ and Tapestry tempts me how?
On the first blush, there’s a hint of promise. I like that I can add both plain RSS and podcasts (have yet to find an RSS reader that handles podcast feeds seamlessly). Many other players (Reeder [1] and Surf [2]) are attempting to tackle similar usecase.
[1]: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/reeder/id6475002485
[2]: https://surf.social
The thing that annoys me more is the Apple dependency/tax ; i'd rather pay the Developer directly, in cases where they offer this on their own website (i always check.)
I'm not saying Apple is entirely fair or well priced (although they were back when the App Store was new, the world changed around them) but I am saying you'll save a lot less than you're expecting to when you do all this stuff yourself — and I'm speaking as one who has.
Keeping track of 190 different sales tax rates is, even by itself, not fun. Best to offload what you can — same reason loads of business go to "the cloud", use site builders or wordpress, or contract out to third-party payroll services.
* payment processor, not search engine; same domain, otherwise completely unrelated.
1. First off, it defaults to a pretty good reader mode
2. Next, you can easily switch to an embedded browser view if automatic reader fails
3. Even better, your preference persists per-site, so you don't have to keep switching if the reader is broken for some reason
4. Feature I've not found anywhere else - the automatic reader mode appears to use the same session cookies etc. as the browser view. So you can actually get reader mode for sites that need a login.
5. Finally, the browser view applies automatic dark mode
Main thing that's missing is a mark-as-read-on-scroll.
Lastly, it's completely free! Author seems to just want to make a good reader app. I can't even find a tip jar link in the app.
I don’t think that’s possible. Modern advertisers require those sweet sweet metrics, which can never be truly anonymized, and in most cases attempts to anonymize are half-hearted at best.
> "I saw it, and I loved it so much,” Borthwick said. “It felt like an intimate and immersive form of reading on the phone. I thought, could you not make a platform to publish more of these?”
Still haven't found anything close to it and social media stories don't seem to match up.
https://allthingsd.com/20121106/when-an-app-is-an-essay-is-a...
Mail clients have run into the same issue several years ago and still doggedly try to make "unified inbox" happen.
The operating system deprioritized apps with their own feeds, and instead provided a number of "hubs" that were like topical inboxes that collected data from multiple APIs.
There was a People hub that showed your contacts aggregated across phone contact book, Windows Live, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter... Notifications about people you know would show up in this screen regardless of the service. And there was a Photos hub that similarly showed photos from everywhere: local, Facebook, etc.
It was a truly original idea for a social media oriented phone. But companies like Facebook and Twitter were not too happy about the idea of being API pipes with little or no control over the user interface on the user's phone. Of course they had some good reasons not to trust Microsoft on this, given Microsoft's past behavior. I think FB shut down the necessary APIs completely a few years later and replaced them with more limited options.
The unified timeline is the whole point. However, for me, this app gets two things wrong:
1) I'd also want IM feeds on the same timeline. Like, Messenger, Teams, WhatsApp, etc. I know it's probably impossible due to how obstructionist and anti-user the chat vendors are, but I keep dreaming about it. Most chat conversations are, in my mind, in the same general category as HN links or incoming e-mail: "thing that I need to pay a minute of attention up front, and then possibly 15+ minutes dealing with".
2) It's iOS only.
It aggregated RSS, Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Reddit.
So it’s a very old idea that’s just coming back - like a lot of things, it goes in cycles.
We ended up selling the software to another company. My personal advice - never build your business on top of other companies data/APIs, they can cut you off at any point.
Chats: yes. Because each separate chat is a separate room, and ultimately, for a personal use, there are not that many of them.
Feeds from social media though? A hard pass. Especially now, when so many people cross-post the same content to multiple networks.
Feels like a solvable problem. Do a string comparison and then just put multiple icons next to the post.
Still feels like a solvable problem that improves the experience in my book.