I have a bigger challenge: build an email (IMAP!) client like Current! Haha. All of the things he describes in the landing page are things I want from email. 
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Challenge accepted 
We’re 2 days in, give me a little time!
Marking things from point of discovery is wrong and that’s a bug and I’ll get that fixed. Which sync service are you using, local? Also, is your UI / UX (re: NNW) feedback for desktop? Ought to try ipad or iphone 
One feature that I’m prototyping is a transient / temporary river where you can collect things that only stay for that session. It feels pretty nice!
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Cool! I’ve only tried Current on iPad so far, with local sync. Most of my NNW usage is on iPad as well.
If I’m struggling to read everything in my RSS reader, I’ve added too many feeds. Or the wrong ones. The same approach I used with Twitter. (I was a completionist.)
Good to see new ideas in (very) old categories, but I sometimes wonder if people don’t create problems for themselves.
Glad I moved to self-hosted Miniflux (from Feedly Pro Lifetime):
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Those Feedly Pro Lifetime accounts are worth a lot of money. I was a free user when they launched and I have more feed limits than the new users. I do wish I bought lifetime when they were selling for $99.
Feedly are going towards enterprise hard. I use them currently but I am also looking for alternatives.
Back to the app, I bought it to support the developer but unlike a lot of people, I prefer the email layout of the RSS apps.
I started using Current about two weeks ago.
My experience: the website is beautiful, the presentation there is top-notch. The iPhone app is looking similar to the website. The iPad version is okay. The Mac version is… confusing to me. And not nice: Key presses sometimes do not do anything on the Mac (Current is current (1.0.6), all updates are installed 
). Sometimes it helps to click into the article window in order to make ‘j’, ‘k’, ‘r’ and whatnot do their thing. Unfortunately, this does make the navigation using keys not very useful.
“River” as a default view is nice when I am okay with having Current taking over for me. I am still not sure if I like the behavior of stuff fading in and out automatically. It is an interesting concept. Then again, there is “Sift Mode” which equals a more classical reading interface like in Reeder Classic (still the reader I like the most).
I like the UI. I am impressed by the number of updates since it launched. I am confident that the app will mature more and more.
P.S. Regarding services like Feedly. If you can, just use a self hosted software. I am using FreshRSS.
You peak my interest, which service did you move from?
I use Reeder today, the new, and what I like is that it captures more than just news/blog rss. Combining YouTube, Bluesky and Mastodon in the same app is nice.
Well, I started with Google Reader. They started to neglect and finally kill their reader. I switched to Feed Wrangler (hosted, not free), also not very alive these days. From there, I switched to Fever (paid for it, self-hosted). I gave Feedly (free version) a short try and finally (a few years ago) I discovered FreshRSS. I am a happy FreshRSS user on an instance that is running on my web server. That is the backend history of the last 20 years. 
Regarding RSS apps: I have always been and still am using Reeder Classic. The new Reeder is not for me. What you are describing as “nice” is not for me. But, I get that we all have different preferences. Apart from Reeder Classic, I have been trying almost every other app out there, especially because I am not sure if Reeder Classic really will be around in the long run. Yes, I know, but I doubt it. Reeder Classic’s UI and its design are perfect for me. Current is the first reader that looks promising to me when it comes to design. Its concept is - like I said - interesting, but I am not 100% there (yet).
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I think Unread is the alternative I might go to, if Classic stops working.
(The free tier seems to be much more generous than in the past under a previous owner?)
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