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Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more

9to5mac.com Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more

The makers of Twitterrific just launched a new iPhone app for social and web feeds. Tapestry brings together Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and more.

This isn't my app, it just seems super cool as a way to pull together your own social media and news.

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1d ago

Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more

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I don’t understand who this is for.
It’s not a good RSS client because it doesn’t offer any specialised features (pulling content beyond what’s in rss, proper reader view, caching etc).
It’s an awful microblogging platform client because you can’t see context or comments. So then maybe you could set up another account, otherwise you’re going to get every new shitpost in your Tapestry (ewww). Then you wonder why not use this account in Mastodon client when it can be a list and skip bothering with another app.
It’s not a good YouTube app or whatever else they implement. It’s not going to be a good everything app because better apps exist for individual services and this developer doesn’t seem to have capacity to implement even the basics.
It does offer some cool features when you have a bajillion news sources but then you’d be kidding yourself that this app will let you browse them all. Maybe you’ll set up some cool alerts for stuff you’ll see elsewhere anyway.
I might be missing the point but this is really undercooked for what they try to charge.
- I’ve never been a Twitterific user, even back when everyone was on it. The UI never really made sense to me because it always felt lacking. But maybe that minimalistic approach is their entire schtick, and their former users that enjoyed their style would buy it right up.
  On a similar thought, I think if Tapbots made a similar aggregator, I’d buy it in a heart beat.
  
  Twitterific was too old school, like it didn’t want to move past skeuomorphic design of old iOS. I liked it but I’m old. I should like Tapestry so I’m really bummed about this experience.
  If you want this kind of aggregator then the new version of Reeder attempted it couple of months ago and it seemed much nicer to use. When I noticed that’s it’s the same idea I reinstalled it and am now trying to stick with it. It didn’t have those custom filtered views that Tapestry has before but it’s been added since. I think it wants me to set up many views and just dip into them like channels to surf on TV. Configuration was painfully slow but I understand why some of it had be done this way - you have to make sure you’re adding low noise sources. It’s also half baked honestly but much more usable, better looking and cheaper.
- Think of "Google News", but for social media and RSS... Or Google Reader for all of those.
  The point isn't to be able to comment and whatnot, but to get all the things you want updates on, in a single pane of glass, so to speak.
  
  That seems like such a narrow use case. I’m not sure why making it usable would have hindered people who want to use it like that.
  Not being able to reply or see threads are just wild design choices IMO.
  
  I understand this much. I tried it and it was awful for the reasons stated above.
  Reeder did a similar rebrand recently and it was similarly received. It looks pleasant (and way better than Tapestry) but doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny (same as Tapestry). I had to switch RSS app that I’ve been using since 1st gen iPod Touch so I’m a bit pissed ;) I understand Iconfactory had to reinvent itself because Musk killed Twitterific but this just doesn’t work and it’s been proven to not work already.

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