{"id":62206,"date":"2026-02-02T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=62206"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:02:04","slug":"feeds-rss-diferentes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/feeds-rss-diferentes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do RSS readers look like email clients?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy do RSS readers look like email clients?\u201d The question was asked by Terry Godier, first on Mastodon, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrygodier.com\/phantom-obligation\/ascii\">in a more detailed post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Godier dubbed the feeling of coming across hundreds of unread items \u201cphantom obligation\u201d: \u201cThe guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.\u201d This applies to so many things\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In the Mastodon comments, Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire in 2002, <a href=\"https:\/\/indieweb.social\/@brentsimmons\/115962536045802026\">explained<\/a> that his inspiration was Usenet, not email. Usenet, a kind of discussion forum, has been around since 1980 and, yeah, it really resembles an email application.<\/p>\n<p>In the same response, Simmons asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The part I don&#x27;t understand and can&#x27;t explain is why RSS readers are still following this user interface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#x27;s not that they don&#x27;t exist, but they are few and niche.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered <a href=\"https:\/\/feeeed.nateparrott.com\">feeeed<\/a>, a free iOS app. It allows you to subscribe to a variety of information sources (including RSS feeds) and displays them in a kind of timeline, with different visuals for each type, no counters, no pressure.<\/p>\n<p>I also came across <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.hayseed.co\">Stream<\/a>, which does away with counters and one of the three traditional panels of RSS readers (the feeds panel) to instead deliver a stream of items to read, like a \u201cunified timeline.\u201d Also for iOS, also free.<\/p>\n<p>There are also small initiatives, usually undertaken by a single person and available on the web, that promise a calmer experience when reading RSS feeds. I am familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/artemis.jamesg.blog\">Artemis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/feed.city\">FeedCity,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vore.website\">vore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More examples?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy do RSS readers look like email clients?\u201d The question was asked by Terry Godier, first on Mastodon, then in a more detailed post. Godier dubbed the feeling of coming across hundreds of unread items \u201cphantom obligation\u201d: \u201cThe guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.\u201d This applies to so many things\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1848,2064,2261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62209,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206\/revisions\/62209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}