River2 goes 1.0

[Dave Winer]

We were at version 0.999 about to go to 0.9991 of River2.

Enough! Let's call this 1.0.

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/14/river2.html

It's really a 1.0. It's very smooth, has been extensively tested for
first-time-user experience goodness, and it is a workhorse, running
lots of rivers on my servers and "in the wild."

Sorry for the wide dissemination of this announcement but it seemed appropriate.

There's also a new release of the OPML Editor, and for brave souls, an
even newer release produced by Brent Simmons on the Frontier-user
list, which you would be welcome to test if you are an OPML user.

Also a fresh release of EC2 for Poets.

For now this is where my focus is. Helping people getting going with
their own rivers.

Support is available on the RIver2 mail list.

Dave

[theWebalyst]

Dave,

Is River2 development active and do you have a roadmap. I set it up
(with your help, thanks) because you suggested it was an alternative
to Google Reader. I love the principle, but the functionality is not
good enough for me to switch from Google Reader.

Their UI is pretty optimal, so I'm interested to understand your plans
for River2, both compared to GR and in other respects.

Thanks

Mark

[Dave Winer]

It just hit 1.0 so there are no plans at this point.

I want to let it mellow out a bit.

I'm actively working in other areas now.

Dave

[Dave Winer]

BTW, I don't think of it as an alternative to Google Reader, because I
don't grok Google Reader.

River2 is my idea of how RSS should work. My experience says that
Google Reader users are looking for something else. What that is, I
don't know.

Dave

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:26 PM, theWebalyst <mark.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: