My Customize Toolbar and Show Sidebar menu items are always grayed out. Anyone else seeing this?
That’s where I’m at right now too. The new app just isn’t for me at this point but I still subscribed to support the dev because I like his apps.
Silvio said for the EXISTING app.
The future app [Reeder Classic] will be subscription for sure.
But Reeder Classic (previously known as Reeder 5, the more traditional RSS app) is the existing app.
Do you think that by renaming it, he’s playing with words and will make Reeder Classic subscription based in the future?
(I did not get that impression from the FAQ)
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I believe he’s saying that eventually Reeder 5 (Reeder Classic) will have a 6.0 release that will be subscription. (I don’t know if there are plans for that or not, just interpreting.)
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For what it’s worth (not much!), I just can’t see that this new Reeder serves a need I have, whereas Reeder “Classic” fixed an actual problem for me (pulling all my RSS feeds into one place so that I could sort and skim. Also I use it for YouTube channels without issue - that I’m aware of!).
My RSS reader collects all my work RSS feeds, as well as personal dev feeds and hobbies. All neatly sorted into folders. Some of the work-related feeds I follow publish over a 100 articles a day, and I imagine there’s even more horrifying RSS feeds out there. My workflow is to skim those ones, open the ones I want to open (and save to Readwise’s Reader), then mark the rest as read. I always do that in their specific list because there’s so much noise.
But for other things, I read by folder often, as they’re arranged by theme. I don’t want a giant feed with everything mixed up.
I basically just want Google Reader 
Reeder Classic was perfect for this.
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When an app is called Classic it’s something like legacy that will be kept but mostly likely there will only be bug fix or updates to become compatible with the latest OS/devices (e.g. iOS 18), and even not pulled down from App Store but doing nothing (let users choose to buy and let the app become unusable when the new OS is released).
The new Reeder is released to see how people think of this new RSS under subscription model in which most people don’t like, and the old one is remained to minimise the impact due to this new changes.
The post linked to in the MacStories article says Silvio is planning updates for Reeder Classic once things have settled a little with the new Reeder.
(I’d rather he just gave the new app a completely different name, to me it seems like a brand new product.)
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This is pretty clear to me that Reeder Classic will NOT go subscription. How did you all read otherwise?
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Checking in after a few more days of use. I am really enjoying this fresh take on my consumption. Now, rather than checking multiple apps to “catch up”, Reeder is my one destination. Far more efficient for me. I also really enjoy being able to pick up any device and carry on where I last left off.
I am hopeful some of the other features I am used to from Reeder Classic show up here, but I’m quite satisfied.
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Honestly I hope it does go sub as long as he charges only $10 a year. reeder classic is just too important to me to be left to stagnate
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I mean, maybe, but this isn’t true in all contexts. Lightroom Classic comes to mind. That’s an app which is seemingly never going way, but in what will perhaps prophecy the reception to Reeder Classic, its user base lives in perpetual fear of the app’s irrelevancy.
I used the new Reeder and gave feedback during beta. It’s quite polished but ultimately not for me.
If everything is in the feed, it doesn’t necessarily have the same priority. Would it help to show items from feeds with higher priority as bigger? I’m not sure. That said, ‘algorithmic’ feeds tend to be worse at this because of no controls, unsolicited recommendations and injected ads. A clearer mark for scroll position and new items would help, as well tapping at the top toggling between scrolling to the top and back to where I was. I also missed swiping across to the article webview, which is easier than scrolling back to the top and tapping the title. I especially noticed this with Reddit where the app was good for lurking but required diving into the webview for comments or any media other than a single image. YouTube support is excellent (PiP, native controls) but I’ve also jumped on the Unwatched bandwagon.
I’ll keep using classic Reeder rather than the new ‘Feeder’. I handle priorities with folders and choosing what I want to read first, marking the rest as read when I’m finished.
Read the previous thread on MPU on this. The new Reeder is NOTHING like Reeder classic and is a horrible disgrace to the memory and legacy to the Reeder line.
Sylvio should be ashamed of himself for tarnishing his incredible line of software. He would’ve done the world a much better service and made a ton more money by upgrading Reeder Classic to v6 and made it a $10 sub. It would’ve been such a fair price for amazing software.
That’s a bit harsh!
People are allowed to develop ideas they have (in any context… but within reason of course, no human centipedes please). You might decide to invent a calculator where the odd numbers and the even numbers are on separate rows. I can think you’re weird for doing this, I can even write an angry 1000 word essay on how your product doesn’t deserve to be a calculator, but it would be an overreaction to say you should be ashamed of inventing it.
I don’t agree with calling the app Reeder - I believe it’s a separate product and should have its own name - but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist at all, or that the developer should feel remorse about creating it.
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This is an unreasonable response. If you find the app doesn’t fit your workflow or it doesn’t match bit for bit what you think a new take on this type of software should be, don’t use it. To call it a disgrace is a disgrace.
The more I use the new Reeder, the more I like it. It has greatly simplified my daily consumption. I’m not suggesting others won’t have different opinions. But, let’s all be reasonable here.
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I’ve tried to like the new Reeder, but I feel It more as another timeline do doomscroll than a RSS reader.
As someone who’s trying to spend less time on social media, that’s not my choice right now.
He plans to implement Folders. I believe that will help me select news sources I care about and ignore the rest.
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I just want him to add in a “View Read/Unread” option like in Classic. It messes with my OCD when I can’t hide old articles from an RSS feed and can’t tell what’s new and what’s old.
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This is the part I don’t get. Without a Read/Unread flag on an item the two apps serve very different purposes (in my eyes) and would warrant a different name.
As a practical matter it doesn’t really impact me…I’ll keep using Reeder Classic. It works exactly as I want and has for many, many years.
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