Dr. Inman’s Prescription for RSS
Published 3 months ago under Design, SoftwareToday, Shaun Inman humbly released the best RSS reader to date.
It’s called Fever.
Why am I so excited? Fever is the first news reader that’s considerate of you.
Contemporary RSS readers borrow heavily from the interface and language of email. Unread items in bold, unread count in red, two panes, and sorted by time. I’m horrible at managing email — piles of unread messages stress me out and waste my time. Why should reading my feeds do the same?
Fever re-thinks RSS. The interface doesn’t force me into un-bolding rituals, nor do I feel like I’m missing out on important news. Fever pulls RSS back from the brink of uselessness.
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Totally agree — fever could be an RSS / information-consumption game changer. What an awesome way to separate signal from noise.
The problem? You have to self-host it and you can’t try before you buy.
If I could play with it for free for a week and I didn’t have to host it I would happily pay $30 — or even a re-occurring subscription.
David,
Yep, a hosted version would be awesome. But it isn’t Shaun’s model. He wants to stay a one-man outfit. A hosted version would require ad sales, server acquisition, and ultimately more people working on the app.
The auto-update capability provides the up-to-date benefit of a hosted app while keeping it all manageable for Shaun. As far as try before you buy, it’s only 30 bucks, one time. It’s worth buying if you’re at all interested, if only to experience the amazing product design of the thing.
This looks awesome. I am an avid Google Reader user right now and am seriously considering switching over to Fever. Have you tried it out yet?
Yep. I’ve been testing it out for a few months. It’s the only way I read RSS these days.
This is really great stuff. Just installed Fever and imported my feeds from OPML, let’s see where that will go.
I think I’ll omit NetNewsWire in no time :-)
Fever delivered the easiest server-based install I’ve ever experienced.
An iPhone interface is built-in. It slurped up 600+ feeds from my Google Reader OPML export with no problem and is fetching feeds regularly from cron.
It’s definitely worth the one-time fee of $30.
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I am an avid Google Reader user right now and am seriously considering switching over to Fever.
It’s the only way I read RSS these days.