On reading, finite interfaces, and the news.
A recommendation algorithm has a real job to do. The problem is what it uses to do it. Clicking isn't the same thing as interest.
Most news readers shape what you see based on what you clicked. Slow Web runs your chosen sources in chronological order. No algorithm, no reading history, no personalization.
Six feeds covering classic JDM, time attack, drift, auctions, and the writers who actually know what a BNR34 is worth right now.
Pick some feeds, give the group a name, and that's a channel. Build your own, browse the directory, or share one with a code anyone can import.
Slow Web caches your articles when it builds your edition, not when you open them. By the time you tap in, the content is already on your device.
Every reading app asks you to sign up. The account is how the app knows what you read, for how long, and on what. Slow Web has no account. Your data lives on your device.
Most apps have a privacy policy because they need one. Slow Web's is short because there isn't much flowing. No account, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, nothing to collect.
Before RSS readers were mass-market products, there were link blogs. Someone read a lot, found the things worth reading, and pointed at them.
Most reading apps are designed to keep you reading. Slow Web is built around the opposite idea: a single daily edition you can actually finish.