Think of “Google News”, but for social media and RSS… Or Google Reader for all of those.
The point isn’t to be able to comment and whatnot, but to get all the things you want updates on, in a single pane of glass, so to speak.
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misk@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
I don’t understand who this is for.
It’s not a good RSS client because it doesn’t offer any specialised features (reader view, caching etc)z
It’s an awful microblogging platform client because you can’t see context or comments. So then maybe you could set up another account because you can’t select what you’re going to see there and then you wonder why not use this account in Mastodon client and not install another app.
It’s not a good YouTube app or whatever else they implement. It’s not going to be a good everything app because better apps exist for individual services and this developer doesn’t seem to have capacity to implement even the basics.
It does offer some cool features when you have a bajillion news sources but then you’d be kidding yourself that this app will let you browse them all. Maybe you’ll set up some cool alerts for stuff you’ll see elsewhere anyway.
I might be missing the point but this is really undercooked.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
misk@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
I understand. I tried it and it was awful for the reasons stated above.
Reeder did a similar rebrand recently and it was similarly received. I had to switch RSS app that I’ve been using since 1st gen iPod Touch. I understand Iconfactory had to reinvent itself because Musk killed Twitterific but this just doesn’t work and it’s been proved to not work already.
stevo887@lemmings.world 14 hours ago
That seems like such a narrow use case. I’m not sure why making it usable would have hindered people who want to use it like that.
Not being able to reply or see threads are just wild design choices IMO.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 2 hours ago
I’ve never been a Twitterific user, even back when everyone was on it. The UI never really made sense to me because it always felt lacking. But maybe that minimalistic approach is their entire schtick, and their former users that enjoyed their style would buy it right up.
On a similar thought, I think if Tapbots made a similar aggregator, I’d buy it in a heart beat.