*Discourse* is a minimalist app designed to let you read your *customized
news feeds* without being distracted by its interface. The design of
Discourse follows the aesthetics of the Windows 8 Metro interface. Your
different news *feeds appear as tiles*, and clicking on a feed will expand it
into another page of scrollable tiles of news stories. While reading, users
will have the ability to save articles to view offline. While Discourse has
the ability to import RSS feeds via URL, there is *no Google Reader
integration*, which is a major let down. You will have to build your feeds
manually by browsing their collection of feeds and sites. This is a pain,
especially if you are an avid Google Reader user. Hopefully Discourse will
integrate importing Google Reader, Facebook, and Twitter feeds in an update.
Applications like Reeder, Flipboard, and Pulse provide a much richer and
personalized experience. In this early version of Discourse, there were a lot
of *missing features*. There is *no ability to share* articles at all. Many
feeds will only give you a couple of sentences, forcing you to click out to
the story. In doing so, Discourse will open up Internet Explorer, taking you
out of the app. This is *distracting and inelegant*. Photos also don't expand
when you tap on them. Reading articles is enjoyable for the most part but
would be massively aided by pagination. *Overall, Discourse aims to be a
minimalist newsreader but is too minimal for its own good. There are just too
many missing features that prevent Discourse from being a good news
aggregator.*Download *Discourse Metro App 1.0* in Softonic
