Today, we dig into the nitty-gritty of Surf, a new app by Flipboard. We document what it is, how it works, and areas where the experience could be improved.
“I wish everyone could see my browsing habits” said nobody ever.
That’s not what this is. It’s more of a feed aggregator / reader with social features, framed as a browser of sorts.
The main thing it’s used for is feed curation and content discovery. You can basically use anything with a feed as a source, then aggregate and filter things.
It’s kind of like a news reader version of Yahoo Pipes almost.
There already is a browser named Surf, and has been for two decades.
Good to know. I have an inkling that this probably slipped under the radar when the SurfApp team were looking at branding and trademarks. Despite the fact that Suckless projects tend to have a somewhat popular following in the *nix community, it’s probably pretty obscure anywhere else.
Yeah, no surprise there, I found it only by pure luck, but suckless has been my jam for over a decade.