![]() ![]() I’ve also been contributing to the NetNewsWire open source project, which is based on an entirely new code base unrelated to NetNewsWire 3. ![]() I wondered how things might have turned out differently if, in addition to acquiring MarsEdit from NewsGator, I had acquired both? I can’t say I would have done a better job than Black Pixel, but I would have preserved the features I care about, and that Clippings folder icon would be the right size!īecause Brent and I are still close friends, we have been in conversation about NetNewsWire and the various options for moving it forward into the future. I used to fantasize about getting access to the NetNewsWire 3 source code and sprucing it up. That’s not possible in most feed readers. I rely upon some arcane features of the app including “scripted feeds,” which allow me for example to run Python scripts on my Mac that connect to Twitter and generate RSS feeds from search results. Over the years I considered other news readers such as Reeder (which is free for a limited time, by the way), but none of them scratched that NetNewsWire 3 itch. ![]() One particular bug with the size of the “Clippings” folder icon has been bugging me for years: In short, it’s no longer the great app that it once was. Subtle bugs emerged, the app’s lower-resolution graphics started to look fuzzy, and the networking infrastructure of the app is from an older era that is failing to connect to some SSL servers. The meaning of “just fine” started to shift as macOS changed underneath the app. For whatever reason, work on NetNewsWire seemed to stall, and I never found the updated version of the app to fit my needs. So I soldiered on with 3.3.2, thinking that I would update to 4.x eventually. They pared back the feature set a lot, in ways that made switching inconvenient to me. When they released NetNewsWire 4 in 2015, it seemed as though the future for the app was bright.Īs nice as NetNewsWire 4 was, it also differed a lot from NetNewsWire 3. For a long time.Īfter Black Pixel took the reins, they put a lot of effort into a massive overhaul of the app, modernizing the look and feel and adding a robust, in-house syncing mechanism. Before they sold NetNewsWire to Black Pixel. Since before NewsGator sold MarsEdit to me. I have been a fan of NetNewsWire since before Brent sold it to NewsGator. In case you haven’t heard the news, Brent Simmons recently regained the rights to NetNewsWire, the groundbreaking Mac news reader, which also happens to be the progenitor of MarsEdit. ![]()
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