The interesting thing to me is that you can code and share your own feed sources. This means you can integrate APIs, or even scrape sites.
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Ads and a subscription model are present FYI.
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Im not using one of these with ads, ill host my own and use the website before that, would have to be insanely convenient and polished, even then id wait for a one time purchase clone
It has a lifetime subscription but it’s missing so many features I couldn’t imagine paying that right now. Well ever but specifically right now…lol
It looks great but man I hate subscriptions and $80 for a lifetime license is absurd.
There is no such thing as a lifetime license.
Any license only lasts as long as the person doesn't want to alter the deal.
(Speaking as a sublime text user who got shafted and switched to emacs)
$80 for a lifetime subscription is reasonable for a well developed app without venture capital subsiding the cost.
Plexpass lifetime is $120.
Plex is owned by venture capitol now.
It's a big part of why it's been enshitiffing.
yep, migrated to emby a couple months ago. although I did use plex for long enough to get value out of the lifetime plex pass.
any particular reason you chose emby over jellyfin?
no Apple TV app and smaller QOL things like bulk editing of files.
$60 can buy you a lifetime license for the Affinity Designer 2, which is a fantastic alternative to Adobe’s Illustrator, which some people can’t live without. AFAIK, Serif isn’t backed by a venture capitalist as well. So, are you still happy paying $20 more for a social media app?
Like, look, I get that we should support devs for what they do, especially if they don’t take venture capitalist money to sell their products for cheap to gain market share. But this seems really overpriced. What are you getting with an $80 app for social media?
80$ goes so far with software, I could buy so much cool shit with years of development behind it
Completely different services. What social media app has ever cost $80?
Ivory for Mastodon is $15/year
$80 would only buy you 5.33 years
I'm not paying for Ivory either. Out of curiosity does Ivory have adds for those who don't pay?
I don’t think so but I think it’s “read only”.
Software use to cost this much and much more in the 90s, and often did less (not working with a much of networked api calls, not integrating with a bunch of other platforms, etc) and wasn’t frequently updated.
It’s 25-30 years later.
People have lost touch with what paid software costs.
Shit was much harder vfx artists were paid a lot too, but they also were the mfs starting apple and pixar, they didnt have the tools/resources we have
Developers didn't have access to mountains of open source code, online tutorials and stack overflow back then either. Compilers, like Turbo C, also used to be paid products.
I've been using Openvibe which is a similar app and haven't seen one add and doesn't have a subscription model. I understand development cost money but I agree with you.
Openvibe is backed by Automatic so zero chance it doesn't become shit. But you can just switch when it does, I suppose.
Just curios what do you mean by become shit? Adds and/or subscriptions or something else?
Sure, any number of ways they can claw value away from consumers.
Am I taking crazy pills or can you not reply to BlueSky and Mastodon post in Tapestry?
I can’t either, looks like this is just for reading.
That’s crazy, you can reply in Opevibe and Surf.Social and they want $80 for this?
Cool concept. Seems a bit pricey for what is essentially an RSS reader. UI looks kind of ugly.
100% although I like the UI but it’s crippled without those features mentioned. Openvibe and Surf offers the same concept and can do both those things.
I don’t understand who this is for.
It’s not a good RSS client because it doesn’t offer any specialised features (pulling content beyond what’s in rss, proper reader view, caching etc).
It’s an awful microblogging platform client because you can’t see context or comments. So then maybe you could set up another account, otherwise you’re going to get every new shitpost in your Tapestry (ewww). Then you wonder why not use this account in Mastodon client when it can be a list and skip bothering with another app.
It’s not a good YouTube app or whatever else they implement. It’s not going to be a good everything app because better apps exist for individual services and this developer doesn’t seem to have capacity to implement even the basics.
It does offer some cool features when you have a bajillion news sources but then you’d be kidding yourself that this app will let you browse them all. Maybe you’ll set up some cool alerts for stuff you’ll see elsewhere anyway.
I might be missing the point but this is really undercooked for what they try to charge.
Think of "Google News", but for social media and RSS... Or Google Reader for all of those.
The point isn't to be able to comment and whatnot, but to get all the things you want updates on, in a single pane of glass, so to speak.
That seems like such a narrow use case. I’m not sure why making it usable would have hindered people who want to use it like that.
Not being able to reply or see threads are just wild design choices IMO.
I understand this much. I tried it and it was awful for the reasons stated above.
Reeder did a similar rebrand recently and it was similarly received. It looks pleasant (and way better than Tapestry) but doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny (same as Tapestry). I had to switch RSS app that I’ve been using since 1st gen iPod Touch so I’m a bit pissed ;) I understand Iconfactory had to reinvent itself because Musk killed Twitterific but this just doesn’t work and it’s been proven to not work already.
This is really cool. 👍
This is great. I’ve really been enjoying OpenVibe but it’s not perfect so I’m looking forward to checking out another take on this.
Been beta testing this as a Kickstarter backer for many months and it's one of my top iPhone apps. Iconfactory has done a real good job and I'll say that if you like the app, $80 for a lifetime purchase really will pay for itself after only a year of using it.
You can’t reply! What am I missing?
Cool. Is there anything like this on android? Or desktop?