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NetNewsWire 7
Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
86 followers
Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
86 followers
NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. It's fast, stable, and accessible. NetNewsWire shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites - and keeps track of what you've read. If you've been going from page to page in your browser looking for new articles to read, let NetNewsWire bring them to you instead. It's easy and fun - and it puts you in control of your news.
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I can't even tell you how long I've been using @NetNewsWire, but it's been a long ass time. Way before there were algorithms and TikTok bans and unbans... and yet Brent's still keepin' on keepin' on.
NetNewsWire 7 is primary the Liquid Glass release, but as it's open source, you can also see in finite detail what's new!
RSS readers hit scale pain when subscriptions grow: background refresh, battery, and read-state sync across Mac/iOS/iPad without duplicate fetches or missed items.
Best practice is strict HTTP caching (ETag, If-Modified-Since), adaptive fetch scheduling with backoff per feed, and a local SQLite store with incremental cleanup to keep launch and scrolling fast.
How are you handling cross-device read/unread sync in v7 (CloudKit, your own sync, or none), and do you plan per-feed QoS controls for refresh frequency and media prefetch?
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@ryan_thill NetNewsWire can sync via iCloud, Feedly, Feedbin, and a bunch of other different sync services.
RSS is the only safe haven left from the doomscroll algorithms. does this version handle iCloud sync natively, or do i still need a backend like feedbin to keep my phone and mac in sync?
NetNewsWire 7
@samet_sezer Yes, it supports syncing via iCloud (and Feedbin, Feedly, etc.) See the website for more details: https://netnewswire.com/
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@ben_johnson24 NetNewsWire 7.0 for Mac has been released. The iOS release will be coming soon — hopefully next week.