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RSS feed reader + What is the Scope of Zen Browser? #677

Closed gBasil closed 3 weeks ago

gBasil commented 3 weeks ago

What feature would you like to see?

One neat feature that Vivaldi has is a feed reader. It implements feed auto-discovery and shows a little feed button in the URL bar if a feed is detected on the page, and also has a built-in feed reader directly in the browser. Even though I said "RSS" in the title, this feature would ideally also support Atom and JSON feeds.

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I'd also like to ask: what is the scope of Zen Browser? What features should/can be requested? A built-in feed reader is a pretty atypical feature present only in Vivaldi (from my knowledge), and it has proved immensely practical for me (though it could do with some love, it using the mail interface feels quite clunky). Would that be something this project would like to implement?

Zykkl commented 3 weeks ago

Well looking into the feature, it's part of Vivaldi Mail, so what they're offering is an integrated mail client, that happens to have a feed reader, AFAIK MS Outlook has that as well. Don't know how feasible this feature is, could use second opinions.

guigirl42 commented 3 weeks ago

could use second opinions

Fwiw, as a longterm Vivaldi user since its beginning, who lost faith in the project more recently, i have no interest nor desire at all for Zen [nor Floorp] to incorporate email & calendaring into it. Instead, Zen [& Floorp] would benefit [in this ardent user's mind, anyway] from the Dev/s' creative energies focusing on IMO vital issues like full native Sidebery capability, & [in the case of Zen] expanded sophistication for the Web Panel functionality. As for a native RSS capability, that would be lovely too, but ONLY if doing so did not then need doing a "full Vivaldi".

mauro-balades commented 3 weeks ago

This issue should be discussed further. You can view and continue the discussion here: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/discussions/769

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