Reeder‪.‬ 17+

First and foremost, Great work!! I am a long time user of Reeder (I think something like 10 years or more, however long it’s been out) and I was really looking forward to this update which does not disappoint. First what I like: Clean, simple interface and reasonable pricing allowing me to import my feedbin XML with a pro membership. Worked like a charm and even pulled out a handful of broken feeds for me, great. The one thing I miss right away however, is the “endless scroll.” I used to love just tapping the first reeder link and viewing the text here in the app and scrolling endlessly until I found an article that really grabbed my attention. I’d like to see that come back in some fashion down the line. I’ll save any other feedback for after I’ve used it a bit more but great start right away!!

This is a neat idea that plays into the notion that we can’t 100% our feeds anymore and thus don’t need to see that we have thousands of unread RSS feed entries (and videos, and Reddit posts, and so on and on) we’ll never get to. As a complement to Reeder Classic (but, personally, not a replacement for it), I can easily see a use case that has me using both daily. But I won’t pick this up again until there’s some visual indication of which posts I’ve read/seen/watched/heard. A syncing timeline isn’t enough (and, so far in my testing, not very reliable in terms of where it lands after a sync). I don’t need unread item counts or empty feed folders, but please just dim the items I’ve interacted with (or, better, give us an option to automatically hide those from the main feed once they’ve been interacted with). Without that option, this feels way more unwieldy than a large list of unread feeds in Classic, and I’ve only loaded up about four feeds so far. A small fix, even if it’s off by default but available as an option, will go a long way.

I have been going back and forth between Reeder and Unread for years, and I was expecting to dislike this new approach. I was surprised to see that I actually enjoy the experience and might adopt it. I was able to import all my feeds with no issues, even the folders have been maintained.

The main problem for me is the lack of bulk actions. I have some folders that I read separately from the main timeline: being able to exclude them from the Home view is great, but it takes forever if a folder contains a lot of feeds. It would be great to have the option to exclude an entire folder in one shot.

There is also another issue, which I think (hope) is because I am following many feeds and some synced later than others. The issue here is that my feed has been “taken over” a couple of times by hundreds of very old posts, from a single feed. I’d assume that, now that everything is synced, this won’t happen again.

Anyway, kudos to Silvio for having the courage to try something new and to put it out there!