Linux client

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Do you have the funds/resources/motivation to develop or contract out development of a Linux client?

The offline mode in the Android app is superb, but currently cannot be replicated on Linux. As a customer for a number of years, this is a feature I would most welcome.

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As much as I’d love to see official apps on all platforms, at the moment there is no Windows or even Mac app (which I believe is what Simon uses) so I wouldn’t get my hopes up for a linux app. Not an official one anyway.

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Using Service Workers, Offline Mode could be implemented once, then work on any platform that has a decent browser.

TL;DR: Works on Chrome & Opera now, Firefox soon (this month!), IE/Edge/Safari: maybe someday…

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Not sure what “Linux Client” means (QT/Gnome) - but I’ve been noodling around writing a curses client for newsblur. Think “Mutt” - but for browsing newsblur articles. Motivation is really because I prefer command line/curses apps and I wanted some tighter integration with pocket than the native webapp does. 

Its not really ready yet, but I’m happy to share if you PM me. 

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Oh man, I love curses. Let me know (samuel@newsblur.com) when you get that to a point of minimal viability.

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I will … for sure. 

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Great news! There is a lovely GTK+ client called FeedReader that already works with other web based RSS readers. Could Newsblur support be added?

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It seems like everyone is writing Electron wrappers (http://electron.atom.io/) for things lately. That might work, if you wanted to throw effort that way. 2c>

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The Feedreader devs have posted a bounty ($150) for anyone interested in contributing towards adding NewsBlur support. @Samuel this seems like a pretty inexpensive way to add value of your product to your users.

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/26359411-add-newsblur-support