Reading Feeds Shouldn't Be a Chore
Foragd is a new generation feed aggregator and reader for RSS, Atom, JSONFeed syndication formats.
I’m unsure where the concept of RSS/Atom feeds being synonymous to your email came from, but I sure am tired of it.
Why are a lot of apps designed around, what is ultimately a business-orientated, task-based UI? Why do I need unread counts of my feeds? I can barely keep up with my email and unread counts are ultimately meaningless when they are in the hundreds, if not thousands, as most of us are probably facing.
Then there is the organisation. Folders don’t align how I think about organising content. Often, something is both this and that.
Remember magazines? What about Social Media? They don’t have unread counts and folders. That’s moon-man business talk. These formats do one thing right; they have text that flows and a UI that’s less about organisation and more about showing off the content. I don’t want to be pressured into reading until the count is zero, I just want to read what I want to read, when I want.
Foragd is different.
Foragd Design
Make reading and discovering content fun again.
- No pressure.
- No unread counts by default.
- Flexible organisation.
- Organising content with categories should be natural, not rigid.
- Exploration encouraged.
- No algorithms or recommendations.
- Search first.
- Make search powerful, functional and first-class.
- Content focused.
- Use beautiful typography and make reading content online pleasurable.
- 1000 true fans.
- Make something for people, not for profit.