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[Roman Shchekin <mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, let 3-rd party developers to realize this :) Or Canonical developers
can implement your
idea as desktop and mobile version both.
But we must focus on *core* applications development.


2013/3/17 Octavian Damiean <mainerror@xxxxxxxxx>

> On 03/17/2013 06:33 PM, darkdragon wrote:
>
>> With the recent development of Google shutting down it's RSS reader
>> (probably in favor of their social network Google+) and all the growth
>> in social networks and more and websites implementing more social
>> plugins than RSS feeds, it first seemed a bit strange to launch a new
>> RSS reader - especially in the core apps.
>>
>> So what are the differences, advantages or disadvantages of RSS? How
>> should the /perfect /newsreader look like?
>>
>> _It appeared to me that I would like the following features:_
>> *categories/lists: *It should be easy to create groups (like tech news,
>>
>> economy news, political news, global news, local news, ...). This one
>> could be implemented in a similar way to tweetdeck or the mobile Google+
>> client (swipe left/right to change between the lists).
>> *read information:* In some areas, I like to no miss any news. So an
>>
>> indicator, if I already read a news item would be nice. Further, some
>> sort of notification for real-time news would be also nice. But this is
>> only true for some small lists (or circles or feeds or whatever you want
>> to call this). For other lists, I would like to turn those features off.
>> Perhaps some rules like: No longer mark as new when older than 2 weeks
>> would also be desirable.
>> *synchronization:* sync all this information between multiple mobile /
>>
>> tablet / desktop devices. (only if the user whats - otherwise use a
>> local db)
>>
>> Then, all the discussions for the messaging apps: We want *one place*
>>
>> for all our messages - regardless of whether they come from SMS,
>> WhatsApp, Facebook, GoogleTalk, ...
>>
>> This let me think about why not doing the same for the newsreader apps?!
>> We should create one newsreader app which can easily implement new
>> "newssources" (perhaps implemented by default: rss, twitter, reddit,
>> facebook, google+) just like the messenger can easily add new messaging
>> connectors (or whatever they are called).
>>
>> Then you could implement the following features additionally to the
>> current rss newsreader roadmap:
>> *comments:* Perhaps, there should be some sort of commenting
>>
>> functionality, which is just disabled for RSS.
>> *share:* There should be some sort of share button for all items, where
>>
>> you can then select over which service you want to share (email,
>> twitter, facebook, sms, ...)
>>
>>
>> What do you think about it?
>> Is it a good idea to unify the news reading experience like the
>> messaging experience?
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I think that those things should be separated. The problem is that not
> everyone will use all those services so we only bloat the software with
> features not everyone will use.
>
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