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Add "News & Feeds" category #573

Open cassidyjames opened 6 years ago

cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

Instead of dumping it all into Internet. Could include "News", "Feed" categories and use the internet-news-reader icon.

danirabbit commented 6 years ago

This seems a little specific to me. Can you give examples of what apps fall into this category?

cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

Any sort of feed reader or news app. For AppCenter apps it looks like this includes "News" and "HackUp" today, but I could also see podcast apps like Vocal showing up here. But my main impetus for adding this was to get these sorts of apps out of the amorphous "Internet" category and give them a first-class home.

cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

Maybe dropping the "feeds" bit from the title would still work. Just a "News" category that includes the news and feeds categories? So that News app, HackUp, Vocal, and any other future news/feed reader app? Would it make sense to mix weather in here? I know some app stores or apps do and it always seems a little arbitrary to me. xD

danirabbit commented 6 years ago

Would an app like Tootle be including in "Feeds"? I feel like there's kind of a blurry distinction between an RSS reader app being pretty clearly "feeds", but an app like HackUp which is essentially the same exact thing.. is a social networking app?

cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

To me HackUp or a Reddit is both a social app and a feeds app. But we don't currently track something like "social" other than "communication." The use case I'm thinking is more delivers-interesting-content-to-you-the-user, like a news reader or yeah, Reddit.

It might be a pointless distinction on our platform right now, though, since we don't have many apps in this category. I think I was just trying to give a home to a couple of apps that otherwise are stuck only in the "Internet" category, and other platforms have "news" categories.