[HN Gopher] Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App
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       Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App
        
       Author : frizlab
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2025-10-04 19:40 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | frizlab wrote:
       | If NetNewsWire becomes a web app it would make me immensely sad.
       | There's no way a web app would feel as good as a native app,
       | particularly this one.
       | 
       | (To be clear, I would immediately change my RSS reader.)
        
         | EmmEff wrote:
         | I dunno, Google Reader was actually pretty good. I am also a
         | NetNewsWire user...
        
       | kh_hk wrote:
       | There are browser apis that could make it work as an app. Web app
       | does not imply server side app
        
         | cosmic_cheese wrote:
         | Technically true, but when no server is involved (running on
         | localstorage, etc) everything gets dramatically more flaky. The
         | user experience would suffer.
        
           | CharlesW wrote:
           | Out of curiosity, is this take informed by relatively recent
           | personal experience? I experimented with storing a bunch of
           | data locally using OPFS with DuckDB/Wasm, and it seemed to
           | work fine in Safari and Chrome.
        
             | cosmic_cheese wrote:
             | It's more aggregated experience over time. These issues
             | often don't surface in the short term but instead show up
             | over time with bugs in implementations in particular
             | browser versions and whatnot. In some cases data just gets
             | wiped and in others it gets corrupted, and with no server
             | component and any backups stored in the same medium as
             | primary storage you're left without recourse.
        
       | rufus_foreman wrote:
       | "I was 12 years old when I got my first computer, an Apple II
       | Plus, and I've never stopped loving the freedom of having my own
       | computer and being able to run whatever the hell I want to."
       | 
       | Pretty much the same here. Kick against the pricks, as difficult
       | as it is, it's the only way.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Weak post. Money? You're already paying for some things
       | apparently. Then going on to say you have no 'web app experience'
       | so don't know what's involved. Making assumptions about what
       | hosting and database requirements would cost. Maybe not that
       | much? What if it was hosted on free tier cloud workers. You're
       | already using free things via github. And someone paying for an
       | account on feedbin whatever that is. A heroku hobby tier with
       | free database option might cover all of this. So you don't know
       | but somehow have a conclusion. I don't care for RSS readers or
       | know what NetNewsWire's user base it like but didn't care for the
       | slagging off of web app possibilities. Feels more like some
       | ingrained mac user disdain.
        
       | not--felix wrote:
       | My RSS reader is the main way i connect to the internet, most
       | things in my reader are web links. I think a web RSS reader is a
       | good, I can just open the links in the same app.
        
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