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An RSS reader with pre-configured feeds? Neat, anything to get people into RSS is a win
I use Kagi. I like the search a lot. This is completely irrelevant to what I want from them. At least with Orion browser it’s associated to the general use case of privacy. I fail to see the angle here?
They are trying to do a lot of things, get into a lot of things. By the way, this installs on a mac and then keeps loading infinitely when launched.
When Facebook and Google take views and traffic away from news sources through summaries and amp and the rest, it’s bad. But when Kagi does it it’s now good?
I absolutely love this. It’s really well done. I like how they give you “timeline of event”
It has a “Business” section, but it defaults to US and doesn’t have any customization (in Settings->Categories) to choose business/economy/financial news from other countries or regions. I wanted to provide feedback from the “Give Feedback” option in the Settings screen, but that opens up the Kagi feedback forum and requires creating an account. I’m not that invested in anything Kagi to go through this amount of trouble.

I would prefer in-app feedback forms to be simple forms that collect information right within the app without having an account, logging in, etc.

I tried but not like it:

- category doesn’t make sense. World are all USA news, business are mostly big tech, tech are most big corp

- the way it digests the news and chop it down to timeline/question/summary feels overly dumb down.

This is just a news aggregator though right? Using it doesn't get any money to the journalists?
This seems about as relevant to their core search product as building a clothing import/export/logistics business[1].

I wish they’d focus entirely on search, because that is where innovation is sorely needed. I used Kagi for a little while and could see it becoming huge if they added more user-friendly features.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

Timely, enjoying it so far as a first user.

I don’t use any social media and have attempted to get my news in the most basic and unbiased form possible.

After finally acknowledging I could never keep up with my RSS reader, I started using Particle a month ago, but I still feel overwhelmed.

Kagi News feels like a sweet spot at the moment, time will tell but this is as much context and unbiased aggregation as I need/want.

Only feedback is allowing custom categories? Right now is enough to get me functional, but I’d love my more niche topics to be available.

This is awesome! Downloaded it and played with it and as a non Kagi user, I'm impressed!

But please please let me select text!

I wanted to look up a word, so I double taped it to select it, then I realized non of the text in the articles is selectable