Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 — and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
@tg what an interesting coincidence, a few days ago, AntennaPod (an otherwise really good podcast app) added the little red dot of unlistened podcasts. And it bugged me so much, like, I emptied the unbox to make the number go away. And here's your text, about that exact thing ! And wery well written and thought through, I now feel vindicated in my annoyance. (Btw, one workaround to hide the little dot is to move the reception box to the end of the navigation bar)
