NewsBlur's Fresh Stride

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I’ve been a Newsblur subscriber since the Google Reader death - its most my used web & phone app. (Apparently 13 years…is that possible?!)

I have definitely appreciated the recent upgrades to Newsblur. They seem like logical and useful additions to the core experience of the service. I was nervous when I saw additional premium tiers be added, so many services anymore push features behind walls that increasingly raise. However, it seems that the distribution of features make sense of where they land, with most hitting your basic premium users.

I upgraded my account to the premium archive tier earlier this month as a signal of my appreciation of the continual product improvements. Not that the service was ever being ignored (one could argue it was in a great state for many years and don’t break what isn’t broken, etc.), but it seems like Newsblur is hitting a fresh stride and I’m excited at where this goes next.

Just sharing my appreciation as a long-term subscriber that appreciates good, thoughtful features being added without disrupting my tuned day to day usage.

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Thanks, I appreciate the kind words. I’ve certainly taken advantage of the new coding agents. I’ve also had lots of free time in between projects, because my last project, Sol Reader (solreader.com), finished over Thanksgiving of last year. For the past four months, I’ve just been thinking about ways to improve the NewsBlur experience.

I’m almost out of different features that I’m thinking of building. I have the MCP server and CLI tool coming out soon, and a referal and gifting feature. I think that’s ready to go later this week. There’s also possibly a natural language classifier that I’ve been prototyping for the past couple weeks. I also want to ship notifications on classifiers and then a super classifier on Thumbs Down to allow people to filter more aggressively. I think after that I’ll be done for a little while and going back into maintaining things as they are until, of course, new ideas strike me again.