From here, you can end your subscription. Select Manage Subscription next to the subscription you'd like to cancel. Also, there are a few worthy sites on the web that for some unaccountable reason don’t provide an RSS feed, but those sites always have a Twitter presence, so I can still use my RSS client to read their stuff. Go to Your Memberships and Subscriptions. One more little tip: both NetNewsWire and Feedbin allow you to subscribe to Twitter accounts as RSS feeds, which means I can keep up with some of my friends while never having to engage directly with the hellsite. We ourselves lost over 700 subscribers in that single purge. Last December YouTube acknowledged they had an issue removing spam accounts, which led to a huge subscriber killing spree. NetNewsWire got lost in the wilderness for a while, and while it was away I started using Feedbin as an all-platform RSS service and Reeder as my desktop client, so for now anyway I’m sticking with those. Every three or four months, YouTube will do a massive purge of subscribers, or they will fix a problem with subscriber counts. RSS parser: Parse Atom-style dates that are missing a T character in the middle.
Netnewswire lost subscriptions for free#
If you use Apple devices, you can get an excellent RSS experience, on Mac and iOS alike, for free with NetNewsWire - which, twenty years ago, was the app that got me into RSS. To use, select a headline or subscription title in NetNewsWire and run. I don’t need any more news, and I don’t want anyone’s opinions about what’s happening.īack to RSS, which I have praised many times before: It’s so dramatically better than any other way of reading the internet I cannot understand why it has always remained a niche phenomenon. In times of stress, such as the current moment, I start the day by reading The Economist’s daily briefing.Īnd that’s it.I get most of my news from The Economist, which I read when it arrives on my doorstep each week.I always have plenty to read because of all the cool sites I subscribe to via RSS, but not one of those sites covers the news.Most important: I avoid social media altogether. Christian Crumlish is building a product team at COVID Safe Paths.He consults on product and UX leadership at Design in Product.He was Head of Product at 7 Cups, Director of Product and UX at CloudOn (acquired by Dropbox in 2015), Director of Product for AIM, curator of the Yahoo design pattern library.
The most recent issue of Oliver Burkeman’s excellent newsletter The Imperfectionist focuses on “becoming news-resilient” – finding ways to stay properly informed while avoiding doomscrolling and other forms of obsessive behavior.
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