In German there’s a specific word for this - verschlimmbessern. It means breaking something by trying to improve it. Thank you for developing Newsblur gently as needed and not trying random improvements all over.
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Thank you for the kind words! I hope you’re referring to beta.newsblur.com, which I’ve tried to setup as a redesign that keeps the same design principles in mind as the original.
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I had a look at it just now and hadn’t visited it before, but YES, that exemplifies my thoughts exactly! It’s such a deliberate and measured development, any my extensive CSS customizations continue to “just work”.
Typisches Beispiel: Evernote. Newsblur läßt zwar auch einiges (nicht viel) zu wünschen übrig, aber es liefert seit Jahren verläßlich ab. Kann man wirklich mal “danke” sagen, dafür von mir an Dich auch ein “danke”!
I have the same thoughts as joffline
In this crazy period of modifying everything, it’s rare to see common sense and finetuning, people just slap a totally new design and that’s it.
Good approach, Newsblur.
Off topic: almost good, not happy about forcing a different font size in a specific setting, I have post on that.
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The new player is another great example of how NewsBlur keeps improving in smart and efficient ways. It has officially replaced the homepage of my browser! Keep up the great work.
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I couldn’t be more excited about the updates coming. For one, I just released the new Add + Discover Sites page, which is a complete rethinking of how you expand what you’re reading in NewsBlur.
But there’s a second, secret feature in there that I’ll be blogging about tomorrow: Web Feeds. You can now setup feeds for sites that have no feeds. I never liked the options out there that did it, but with LLMs I can now have them read the page, figure out what are the variants, and show you options and let you decide. And now feed reading comes to more sites. What a world!
I fully agree with the OP when it comes to the IOS update that was released today. Thank you for not trying to fix something that was not broke.
Lotsa of double negatives here making it hard to understand what’s being said, but I’ll share my thinking on the latest iOS updates. My goal is to improve the app to the point where I’m not embarrassed of it anymore. I think at version 14.1, which is being submitted to the App Store today, I’m nearly there.
I’ll say I do have some features launching soon, specifically Story Clustering and the Daily Briefing. Some users may not like it because it leans heavily on AI, but I think that’s the nature of how NewsBlur was originally built. It was always intended to apply intelligence to news reading. We just now have a higher order form of intelligence.
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