Netnewswire syncing failed3/17/2023 Mac.)įor users like myself, who needed to access the same aggregation of RSS feeds from multiple computers, synchronization is of paramount importance. (I’ll even excuse the alternative synching mechanism offered by the program’s current owners, Newsgator in my experience, it was fundamentally no better or worse than. So it’s unfair to blame its developer for NetNewsWire’s thoroughly incompetent synching chops. Granted, synchronization is a black art that nearly no one gets right, and NetNewsWire was dependent on the notoriously unreliable synchronization framework provided by Apple’s stridently half-hearted. Perhaps my biggest complaint of all was with NetNewsWire’s inveterate inability to get synchronization right. Especially with recent revisions, wherein its developer has apparently focused on cosmetic changes to the program at the expense of true improvements, I regard it as a squandered, mishandled opportunity. Today I regard it as a not particularly good application at all, and it sits on my virtual junk heap of software that just couldn’t - or wouldn’t - evolve along with its users’ needs. It may have started strong, but its development momentum lazily petered out, its gaps in functionality growing more egregious every six months or so. When that was the case, when they were still new and our expectations for them were relatively low, the leading Mac OS X application for aggregating them was NetNewsWire and I used it loyally.īut as RSS evolved and the sheer volume of feeds I collected became more and more of a management challenge, I began to sour on NetNewsWire. When you’re done, you can just delete the temporary account (or make it inactive).Įxample: if you’re an iOS developer, you might want to import some of the OPML files at Dave Verwer’s iOS Dev Directory.RSS readers used to be amazing, wondrous portals into a novel, rich trove of original content. ![]() That way you can see what’s in it, and you can copy any feeds you like into another account. (This is not new in NetNewsWire 6: this works in NetNewsWire 5 too.)Ĭreate a new On My Mac account (you can have more than one) just for this OPML file, and then choose that account when importing the OPML file. If you find an OPML file somewhere and just want to check it out without adding it to your current feeds, you can use NetNewsWire’s support for multiple accounts. Pick the one you want to add, and then follow the prompts for authentication and setup. You’ll see a list of accounts as in this screenshot. Click the + button near the bottom left of the window. While I can’t guarantee we’ll get to every single one, we’re certainly trying.) How to add an account (We’re getting closer to our goal of supporting as many as possible of the existing systems. ![]() You can have Feedly and Inoreader and FreshRSS, for instance. Not new in NetNewsWire 6, but worth remembering: NetNewsWire supports multiple accounts. Unless you want to wait for it to get out of beta, which is completely sensible. If you’ve held off on checking out NetNewsWire because you use one of the above, well, you don’t have to wait any more. (NetNewsWire already supported Feedly and Feedbin: this makes the list a lot longer.) NetNewsWire 6 - currently in beta (Mac for now) - adds support for a bunch of RSS sync systems: BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS.
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