I figured Lobsters has a lot of people that still use RSS still.
I’m decommissioning the server I use for some web stuff, and that has my RSS reader on it. Currently, I’m using Tiny Tiny RSS out of inertia (having used it for years), but I’m not entirely a fan of it (i.e. the maintainer has a reputation of being difficult to work with last I checked years ago), and am open to switching to something else. Not too picky about the tech stack as long as it’s not a pain to manage. I’d like to have something that works across multiple devices. That likely involves client-server, which fine as it’s what I’m already doing; if you have a client app on desktop/mobile you like, I’d like to hear about that too.
I’m in the Mac ecosystem (MacBook Pro, iPhone) so I use and love NetNewsWire - it syncs read state perfectly across my devices via iCloud and just works.
I’m also all in on Apple so I use Reeder, and can recommend it unreservedly.
I was a huge Reeder fan until the author launched a new version that dropped most of the RSS sync options due to a new focus on subscribing to non-RSS sources. The old app is still around as “Reeder Classic,” but it’s effectively in maintenance mode.
NetNewsWire is slightly clunkier than Reeder Classic, but the author seems more invested in the types of functionality I want to have in an RSS reader.
Yeah that was super annoying but whichever sync service I used was still supported so it missed me. I should try NNW again.
Note that iCloud is only one of NetNewsWire’s subscription/unreadness sync options: You can also sync with Basque, Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, or self-hosted FreshRSS, or just keep the data locally. And like any good RSS app it can export and import subscriptions for a quick tryout.
I’m also on the Apple/Mac ecosystem, and I do love NetNewsWire (using iCloud to handle subscriptions and read state across my devices). I also do love that I can leave a Quick Note on my iPad using the Apple Pencil on articles (swiping from the right bottom corner up), I use this feature in addition to the starred articles whenever I want to add some personal thoughts to what I’m reading.
Interesting. Never knew that. Is there any equivalent one for iphone? I now star articles and then batch process export entire article to obsidian to take notes.
Looks like there isn’t a quick note gesture on iOS. It’s accessed from the share sheet or a control center icon.
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-quick-notes-iph5084c0387/ios
Same, used it way back when and used it ever since they remade or rereleased it.
I’ve been using it Mac only for years, I never realized there was a iOS app too. Thanks!
Same!
I use miniflux, it’s nice and the PWA on android feels amazing
Me too. I chose it because they provide an RPM repository and it can use PostgreSQL as storage. I stayed because it just works and it’s minimalistic.
I’m toying with my own terminal client: https://github.com/alexpdp7/termflux
I would like to have an android native app that could sync stuff for offline viewing. There used to be something like this (microflux?) but I cannot install it on recent android.
I use Miniflux with the FeedMe app on Android via the Fever API. It’s not very good looking but it works fine.
Thank you!
In theory miniflux offers APIs that can be used by Android apps, but every Android app I tested is unusable with my RSS feeds. Best app experience I had was the old google rss experience or newsblur. Wanted to write a newsblur API for miniflux, but stopped midway through…
Miniflux also has support for the Fever API.
Same, really easy to set up using NixOS.
Same - I wanted something I could access from all my machines and I didn’t like any of the public offerings, ether wildly different to my preferences or I didn’t trust them to disappear or behave badly in the future. Been very happy with miniflux, runs on a Raspberry Pi and has been pretty much hassle-free :)
yarr, conveniently a single binary sqlite based server with both a nice enough web UI and a Fever API implementation, so it works with Reeder on iOS and Newsflash on GNOME. (Anyone know of a nice looking Android client?)
I’ve been using yarr for a few years now. It’s very simple with a minimalistic UI. You can host it somewhere (behind a reverse proxy) or run it locally.
Ah that’s very cool. Of course there’s no reason for my news reader to be running anywhere other than my laptop (if you’re only going to be reading from your laptop).
I also host yarr on my RaspberryPi for a year now and it works very nice :)
On Android I use Read You, it’s a nice looking Android client with Fever API support!
I might’ve tried it before but it failed to fetch from yarr. Well this time I have reported the bug!
Fever API is tagged as deprecated in Read You unfortunately
Newsboat
There’s a shocking number of paid aggregators which do everything online. I don’t understand the use cases. I’m perfectly fine with newsboat
(though it needs a few small features namely a way to view/edit feeds within newsboat, though an alias works fine) but the devs are quite responsive to bug issues, so maybe I’ll try requesting such a feature!Newsboat updates when you want and persists everything, so you can read offline etc. What else do you need?
If I understand the original request correctly: maintaining state across several browser sessions and/or devices. e.g. if you read today’s XKCD on your laptop, it’s marked read on your phone and desktop too.
Yeah, RSS is my version of scrolling social media so I read it 50/50 in my phone and PC.
I’m on the newboat boat too.
So, like an internal editor and not just SHIFT+E to open the URL file in $EDITOR?
Precisely, thank you for sharing! I now have no complaints about Newsboat.
I’m also a newsboat user (from back when it was newsbeuter) but I’m considering a UI/browser based one just because there’s so much visual content.
I host Miniflux. Setting it up and operating it is easy, though it does depend on Postgres.
I do most of my reading on an iPad, so I use NetNewsWire as an additional client.
Overall, I enjoy using it. Not only do I use it to follow blogs, but also to read later, and to filter firehose feeds like HN, Lobsters, Mastodon, and Lemmy based on what I’m interested.
What are you using to get feeds from HN and Lobsters?
I use this one from Lobsters, and this one for HN. Miniflux supports filtering based on regex, so it only picks up entries that match the keywords I’m interested in following.
To share my own experience I’m following Lobsters through their per-tag RSS feeds (https://lobste.rs/about#tagging). For following on Hackernews, I’m using a combination of https://hackernewsletter.com/?ref=find-your-newsletter and ChangeDetection or https://hnrss.github.io/ (discovered via https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/hacker-news-clones/ )
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Feedbin.com
I love their email to RSS feature for newsletters.
Do the newsletters become available publicly somehow? I’d like to read Money Stuff by Matt Levine without subscribing.
No, you just get a magic email address and anything sent there ends up in your Feedbin.
After that the email gets a feedbin url, which you can share with friends etc. Great for sharing one off paid newsletters
There are few other pieces of software I’ve used in my life that are both beautifully designed and have just worked for years and years, including their Pinboard integration.
Miniflux (https://miniflux.app) self-hosted in a Digital Ocean server
I get a feeling, but not 100% sure that you want a self-hostable RSS reader.
But, if you are ok with a non-self-hosted flavour, then the cross-platform Newsblur is decent. Cross-platform, as in the desktop versions are web apps. I’m not a heavy RSS/Atom user, but I’ve been using NewsBlur since Google Reader.
NewsBlur is MIT-licensed & self-hostable. The setup is a bit convoulted as there are quite a few dependencies, but Samuel (the developer) is active on the community forums & willing to assist.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been paying for the hosted version of NewsBlur for 12 years & I’m very happy with it!
Self-hosting NewsBlur - see the dependencies alone! - is time-consuming though, too annoying for some (including me). That’s actually sad, because it is a really good piece of software.
Wow. I stand corrected!
Another vote for Newsblur here. After Google Reader died, I decided I wanted a thing I could pay to support.
I’m OK with self-hosting, I just need to move things off of this server since I have a better one available now.
Ok. NewsBlur might fulfill your need to keep the RSS feed in sync across several devices. Apart from that, its an indie software. The developer hasn’t gone overboard with shiny features, and focuses only on features that add value to one’s reading experience. The generous free tier will most likely suffice your needs.
Have you seen how many stories /u/calvin posts here? If those come from RSS feeds, I find it hard to imagine 64 is enough :-)
Thanks for pointing out Newsblur. I’ve been shopping for something I can self-host, and it looks interesting.
I’ve been happily paying Sam since before Google Reader died (I read the Google tea leaves accurately), and have never regretted it. He’s a small indie developer who has written a brilliant piece of code, and has never, as far as I know, taken VC money and would rather build a sustainable business than one focussed on hyperscaling. I think businesses like that are worth supporting
No doubt. I’m not allergic to buying good software from good developers. Since google reader was pushed off the raft, I’ve just gone local and lived without read state sync across my devices, but I’ve started to want to fix that more, lately. I’ve prototyped my own service for it, but don’t think I have the cycles to build that out the way I’d want.
One appeal of Newsblur as I’m looking at the github repo is that it’s written in a stack I’m comfortable hacking on, and I could scratch my own itch should there be features I want.
If this works for the way I tend to read, and sticks, I could see it turning into a Bitwarden situation where I pay for the first paid tier but still host it myself. I don’t love subscriptions, but as long as my data is under my control I don’t mind supporting developers that way.
I am selfhosting Miniflux with wallabag integration. It’s cool, fast, simple UI, single go binary even though I am using it as a NixOS module.
rss2email. You already have a client for email, so no need to setup anything else. I configure
r2eto send digests each week (a single email with all rss entries attached as email attachments) and I have configured a local alias on my email server to quickly add/remove feeds by sending an email to a specific address (that only works with my personal address, which is only from clients authenticated locally).EDIT: I had uploaded “instructions” long long ago, I just remembered. https://gist.github.com/epilys/fe616b2de4e53bdfc0e1189afa438a90
You are not completely wrong, but I only “really” read my email on my main machine at home, on my work machine I occasionally open webmail if I need something, but don’t check it even daily. Same for mobile, and I wouldn’t want to read RSS feeds in K9 tbh.
This is what I do and have no major complaints.
The only minor complaint is that K9 has very aggressive HTML sanitization which can impact some feeds (no syntax highlighting for code examples) but overall it is a pleasant way to read.
This. You also get cross-device synchronization for free (if you use IMAP), and you can easily build up the history log for news, if anyone would want to go back in time to see what was hot in 2012.
Miniflux for four years now — used to use Reeder to connect to it, but once it started to degrade, got in the habit of using it directly. It does the job really well, and it’s easy to move to a new machine; just dump the database.
I think I’ve been using Feedly for more than 10 years now. They do have paid features, but I’ve never felt the need to spring for those and they do not force them down your throat in any way. The service is rock-solid and the UI feels at home to me with no major redesigns occurring that would ruin things for me.
Same for me. When Google decided to kill Google Reader, Feedly was one of the best at this point.
I’m surprised to not see more people saying Feedly. Like you and oleg I switched to Feedly when Google Reader was shut down and it’s always been good. I pay for the first tier of paid service and it seems good. I don’t love how their product development is all about AI enhancements and “threat assessment” but I just ignore that stuff.
Ironically, I’m now having issues^1 with them :D
Self-host miniflux, which is great at fetching and storing the feeds and read status. The default web UI is mediocre but there are some nice third party clients like Reeder on iOS.
The default web UI is minimal yet robust and powerful for what I expect from such reader. I love the ability they recently added to execute some global user script by default so while I do lot of UI tweaking through TamperMonkey, now I use to register these scripts directly in Miniflux settings which enable me to enjoy my UI tweaks in any device without extension. Some other things I do with Miniflux : https://morgan.zoemp.be/reading-rss-in-peace-with-a-few-miniflux-hacks/
I’m a huge fan of FreshRSS, self-hosting this for a few years now. A bunch of mobile/desktop clients support FreshRSs but their PWA works well for most cases as well.
I use miniflux for fetching feeds and NetNewsWire to read the articles on my iDevices (via Miniflux’ API), though on my desktop (mac and linux) I use just the webapp for miniflux.
An rss-to-email service: https://pico.sh/feeds
The pico services are absolutely amazing, didn’t know it had an RSS to email service, thanks!
I’ve gone back and forth with self-hosting and ended up going with a cloud service – https://inoreader.com.
They have good support across web and native apps, and the UX is the best of the ones I’ve tried imo. Downside is they’ve raised their pricing and the free version has a max of 150 feeds. I’m trying to decide if I want to keep paying for all my feeds or move to self-hosted.
Regardless, another tool I use is https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ which is free but also self-hostable,, it generates email addresses to use to sign up for newsletters and convert them to RSS. Espceially for Substack and Medium this is a great tool for my use case as I like having my “news” and email separate.
EDIT: Forgot to mention my favorite feature: a keyboard shortcut (W) that will attempt to pull the full article from the website for sites that do not publish full articles via RSS. It’s fairly reliable and keeps me from opening a million tabs while reading.
Same. But realized since I work from home, I don’t really read feeds from my mobile device anymore.
I self-host miniflux. I love its filters feature. It can filter out items based on a regex. Very handy.
On the client I use Reeder (classic) both on iOS and Mac. It’s decent.
Besides filtering, why not use the Reeder App directly to fetch Feeds? I’ve seen a few comments here with the setup Miniflux+Reeder, so I wondered about this particular setup. Doesn’t Reeder get the job done without additional backends?
Miniflux is a bit more mindful about HTTP (etags, changed-since, etc.). And on top of that it has an option for smart fetch scheduling. So it’s easier on smaller sites with infrequent updates and it still keeps up with more frequently updated feeds like Lobsters.
Reeder is much more wonkier. It’s worse with caching, it doesn’t have any scheduling options and it doesn’t update when my laptop’s offline for whatever reason or I forgot to launch Reeder. Its iCloud sync is broken, too. I’ve noticed that over time unread counts started to drift. I didn’t bother to check if it was just read status or if it was loosing items. No such issues since I switched to Miniflux.
Thanks a lot, that really clarifies the case for me!
That’s interesting! I self-host miniflux as well (on a docker host on proxmox), but I don’t use filters. What kind of stuff do you filter out?
Sponsored posts, tech I have interest in. A couple of feeds have podcast announcements (I either have them in podcatcher or not interested). Another has a recurring guest post that are most of no interest to me. Basically anything that I would never go past reading the title to mark it read.
I’m also using filters for skipping specific topics in some feeds to avoid wasting my time. I’ve blogged a bit about my use case athttps://morgan.zoemp.be/reading-rss-in-peace-with-a-few-miniflux-hacks/
Thanks!
Emacs’s elfeed [1]. I’m really happy that frameworks like eleventy keep RSS / Atom support strong [2] and I include it everywhere I can, like my blog [3]
[1] https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed
[2] https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/rss/
[3] https://blog.frost.kiwi/
https://vore.website, a very minimal and simple rss reader. No fuzz, FOSS and the hosted service is free :)
Website name makes me chuckle everytime
Reeder 5, it just looks the prettiest <3
I use yarr, I even posted a blog article here about how much I love it. I’m self-hosting the latest version from Git on FreeBSD, it works pretty well!
I remember your blog post: I really liked it, and I thought I subscribed to you as a result, but it seems I hadn’t yet: now rectified.
Miniflux!
After Google Reader I also used Tiny Tiny RSS, but I really disliked maintenance and even more its maintainer.
I now use Bazqux and couldn’t be happier. The web version is great by itself and it also works well with 3rd party clients I use (Feedler Pro).
I tried it when it launched. It’s leaps and bounds superior to all others. Never really payed for it as I am not a consumer of RSS feeds. There was a fine when most sites provided it. Then came the walled garden mentality, I basically find no value in RSS reading.
https://feedbase.org/ lets you read RSS feeds through your news client (NNTP reader).
Big fan of inoreader
Also using it. I am kind of surprised by how well it works across many platforms and OSs.
I also use inoreader (paid version). I use it for RSS, email-newsletters, Canned Google, etc. searches, page-watch notification, and so on. It’s been quite solid for me.
I’ve used Inoreader since Google Reader shut down and have been happy with it.
I’m a huge fan of blogtrottr.com, which delivers feeds via email in flexible ways. There’s a free, ad-supported version, but I pay the modest fee to avoid ads.
I love getting posts via email. It means that I don’t have to check yet another place, and it gives me access to all the tools that email gives for filtering, labeling, starring, etc.
I’ve been using FreshRSS for about the past month. It’s running on a box at home and it basically just acts as a coordination service, I don’t typically use it directly except to subscribe to new feeds. I use Reeder Classic as client app on iOS and macOS, and I’m pretty happy with it so far.
I will note that the Reeder devs just launched a new version of the app which is subscription-based rather than OTP, unsure if that version supports FreshRSS. They say they will continue to support the classic version but unsure how long that promise will last.
I’ve been a heavy user of self-hosted FreshRSS for a few years now, and NetNewsWire on my iPhone (synced to FreshRSS via their integration). FreshRSS exports a greader API, so it should work with pretty much any client. For any desktop device, I just pull up the default FreshRSS web interface.
That’s my setup these days, too. 99% of my reading is through NNW/iOS, but FreshRSS is my self-hosted data storage back-end. I do occasionally use the FreshRSS front-end.
Inspired by @tudorr’s blog post, I set up a Yarr instance to explore it, and I have some experimental feeds in there (in-development RSS gateways I’ve been working on mostly). However my instance fell over at some point in the last few months, I just started it back up and it’s lost all the data.
I use FreshRSS self-hosted. It just works, so I don’t need anything else.
Feedbro, a browser extension: https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
Nextcloud News, because I already had a Nextcloud running. It’s pretty decent, and the mobile app is available on F-Droid. Been using it since 2013.
gwene.org This is a RSS-to-NNTP service. Each RSS feed becomes a newsgroup in your usenet reader. It works great. Any usenet reader can be used, I use Emacs Gnus for it.
I use MiniFlux and use FocusReader as my Android client for it. fast, works well, simple yet powerful. TTRSS was a monster when I first tried it.
When I do, which I confess is seldom, it’s Thunderbird.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/05/thunderbird-rss-feeds-guide-favorite-content-to-the-inbox/
I use feedsin.space, which is an RSS to AcivityPub bridge. I can follow RSS feeds that it exposes as if they were ActivityPub streams, and can boost articles from them with a single button, which then lets other people in the Fediverse also follow the RSS feed by following the account.
Note that feedsin.space is shutting down on Dec 15th: https://botsin.space/@muffinista/113392588900840218
Is it? I don’t see anything about feedsin.space in that announcement, or anywhere in the thread.
Oh sorry, I see now it is about botsin.space. I mixed up the names. Thanks for noticing.
I wasn’t sure if they were related. I found feedsin.space via botsin.space, but I think botsin.space is a Mastodon instance whereas feedsin.space is a custom (and much simpler) ActivityPub server, which hopefully means it won’t hit the same problems: much less to maintain and it doesn’t need to host images, just the text from the RSS feeds and links.
Pretty cool, I just added https://feedsin.space/feed/events-ccc-de
I do a weird thing. I don’t like RSS readers, because I prefer just reading stuff on the web, in the form the author originally intended.
I do want to follow specific blogs I read. So what I do is that I have a /blogroll section on my blog which collects the latest entries from the stuff I follow:
https://matklad.github.io/blogroll.html
The way this works is that I have a blogroll.txt file with a list of URL:
https://github.com/matklad/matklad.github.io/blob/master/content/blogroll.txt
Then I have 32 line script that fetches the list and builds my timeline:
https://github.com/matklad/matklad.github.io/blob/master/src/blogroll.ts
And I run in on cron every so often:
https://github.com/matklad/matklad.github.io/blob/cdbe5858ec223ad472fcd7019e7bcf51d1f2b308/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L8
I used to have blogroll.opml, but that was an unreasonable amount of complexity, given that the list of urls is the entirety of information I actually need.
I really love this setup! Now I only need to use it more, instead of compulsively refreshing lobsters!
I use thunderbird, it gets the job done
I use http://zapier.com for rss-to-email.
I use the newish Readwise Reader as my read-later, email newsletter, and RSS feeds reader.
Same. I was using a variety since Google Reader shut down but Readwise Reader is the final one given its wider utility.
Crossbow, my own project https://dacav.org/projects/crossbow/
Crossbow is tailored for Unix systems: I run it with cron(8) on my Raspberry (FreeBSD). My configuration turns feeds into email.
This manpage collects a few nice use cases: https://dacav.org/projects/crossbow/releases/latest/man/crossbow-cookbook.7.html
Recently I wrote my own library for extracting data from feeds: Crossbow 4.0.0 depends on Libeccio. https://dacav.org/projects/libeccio
i wrote https://vore.website years ago & it continues to serve me well! lots of other ppl use it daily too, so it must be doing smth right :3
Miniflux.
I’m always surprised that more people don’t use sfeed - you can do anything with it, but it also comes with a wide range of tools so you don’t have to shave any yaks if you don’t want to. I use it to make a new tab page like this: https://tmp.bvnf.space/start.html
NetNewsWire for macOS. Pretty good though I wish it’d be better at caching articles after initial download (which they explicitly won’t do)
Rather a peculiar setup here, using the RSSyl plugin for Claws Mail.
I have been using Claws Mail (and Sylpheed Claws before) for a very long time and having the RSS feeds in my mail client makes their entries easy to read/process.
For sure I just use bazqux. I’ve been using them since 2013. I did pay for a lifetime membership. It just seems to work and I’ve never had problems with it. I don’t have to mess with it and the guy seems to do a pretty good job.
For a reader, I use focus reader on Android which costs about $9 per year.
Someone pointed me to Vienna on Mac. I need to find something that cut-down for Windows (gimme a Win32 GDI UI any day)
I do use Miniflux in conjunction with Readkit but I will need to simplify and consolidate at some point.
The best Windows equivalent of Vienna I’m aware of is RSS Guard.
Oh shit! And it supports Miniflux (via the Reader API)!
Thank you!
I’m a long time Inoreader user
I used Reeder 4 (Mac, iOS) for a long time, recently switched to new Reeder app from the same guy, Silvio Rizzi.
On macOS I use NetNewsWire. It’s very nice. I only use it on my Macbook so I can’t speak to it across multiple devices but I hear good things.
Self-hosted FreshRSS and the web site on my phone works great in lieu of an app.
It’s quite intriguing that, although a certain RSS reader was marketed virally just a few weeks ago, no one here has mentioned it. The RSS reader I’m currently using is the one you are considering replacing. I used Reeder a few years back, but I stopped when the developer transitioned to a subscription model. Regarding the specific RSS reader promoting itself through an invitation system that I mentioned, I find its user interface appealing. However, its viral marketing strategy puts me off, so I haven’t tried it and won’t mention its name here.
The newest version of Reeder uses subscriptions, but it’s also a rewrite with a very different feature set. The developer is going to continue working on “Reeder Classic,” which is still paid up front.
My own: https://minifeed.net/ Always wanted a lobste.rs/HN-style feed of links rather than a traditional RSS reader. I ended up implementing kind of both, but in most cases I prefer to go to the original page on the author’s website anyway.
I’m on Tiny Tiny as well. It works, and that’s enough for me. I use an open source client for it on android. I read on an article over here that it’s not very server friendly, but haven’t had the time to work on a patch/fork
I use Reeder for iOS. Previously, I used Feeder to get RSS notifications to email, but they changed their subscription pricing to completely absurd and I switched to the app. Reeder is a one-time payment.
I use (and pay for, it is open source though) Newsblur (newsblur.com) (especially cause I like the “training” features that allow you do mute certain keywords from certain feeds or mark certain posts as high priority based on keyword/author/etc.
FreshRSS is also very neat.
I use Akregator, but I don’t like it. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you (like me) have an aversion to web apps.
AKregator
I’ve been using NetNewsWire on the Mac for 22 years. It was the first “indie” Mac software that I bought. It’s just fantastic. Especially today there is such a laser focus in the product on quality, and now it’s even open source. Brent’s blog is full of wisdom, too, like this:
https://inessential.com/2021/03/20/how_netnewswire_handles_threading.html
FreshRSS
I use ReadKit on iOS, it is has a bug where items get marked as read if you scroll past, it crashes sometimes changing view and the developer is been completely unresponsive to emails. It also refuses to take feeds that are slightly out of spec so it won’t take Solene’s feed at all
But still, best native non service iOS RSS reader I’ve found.
I like to get my feeds by email. I filter (almost all of) them into folders with no notifications and then treat me email client just like a feed reader.
I’ve been using this solution for a long while: https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/. For the majority of the time I used a third-party service but relatively recently I started my own RSS-to-email service and obviously use that now.
Self-hosted FreshRSS, with the web client on Android and desktop, or NetNewsWire on iOS.
I am using miniflux hosted in a Linode VPS through Docker. It works really nice, no issue in years.
Through this I can also send the favorites in my Hoader instance. The only problem is how to deal about clutter: I have a long list of RSS feeds since almost 15 years and some of them are not really interesting yet.
The configuration option seems to allow tuning the behavior to send only the starred entries not everything. So maybe it’s enough to avoid turning your hoader instance into garbage? Otherwise could you please elaborate on your workflow?
I’m using Miniflux with Shaarli and recently Wallabag was also used next to Shaarli but I needed something smarter for long term storage and information research so I work on my own tagging/web archiving/bookmarking tool.
Exactly, I only send starred messages to avoid collecting too many rubbish articles. I would like to improve my workflow in two different directions:
I am also enjoying reading HN and lobsters a lot. Unfortunately both of them don’t have API to extract starred messages. So I am working on a script that scrape the two sites, get the starred articles and import in my Hoader instance. While scraping is not really nice and allowed, I am trying to be polite and reduce at minimum the scraping. It’s still not finished yet
As I have a very long list of feeds, my other idea is to train a Bayesian classifier with my previous miniflux clicked article and use it to suggest only the interesting article. I don’t know if it can works, it’s just an idea to play around.
I use miniflux filters for this but what can be done with is limited I believe. I’m working on my solution to this problem but I dont like to rely on too complicated algorithm to decide what to read so I’ll likely reuse the same config I had done for Miniflux and Wallabag i.e filter/tag mostly with boolean logic https://morgan.zoemp.be/reading-rss-in-peace-with-a-few-miniflux-hacks/ But to be checked against the whole tags/title/content of articles. Shaarli has some plugin to suggest similar articles just based on articles having same tags. This seems simple enough for me for instance. I do lot of scraping so I guess it’s normal as long as APIs are lacking behind.
Interesting ideas! I am not an expert on JS/GreaseMonkey but I like your approach, maybe it’s the time to learn how to use JS :)
I’m mostly using LLMs for the task of creating such scripts.
I use Nextcloud News as a kind of sync backend, but I never use its web frontend. I use the official Android app on mobile, and Newsflash on desktop.
mainly FreshRSS in the browser and FeedMe on Android, but I also still have an old instance of Tiny Tiny RSS running, with exactly 2 feeds: Lobsters and HN, and so far I have not managed to make any other reader behave exactly like this which lets me move through the whole RSS feed quickly while still keeping some unread for later. I don’t use /active or /recent at all. I used to use RSS a lot more when I was commuting by bus+subway, so I guess I could use a desktop feed reader at home these days.
Liferea, almost exclusively for YouTube
I’ve been happily self-hosting https://github.com/Athou/commafeed for the past couple years. Simple UI, gets the job done and the maintainer is responsive and easy to work with.
I’m a big RSS user and have been since the good old Google Reader times. Lots of subscriptions, all in one “bucket”, probably a lot of inactive ones.
Currently trying out NetNewsWire again, although I just deleted the iOs app so that I have one less incentive to using handheld devices.
I did use WeLoveRss for a surprisingly long while, though (and I’ve never read someone else using it). It’s clearly Someone’s Side Project(tm), and might go away any minute now. Also, it has none of the niceties that I’m used to from other readers, like quickly selecting the next feed. But its minimalistic site design had a certain draw, I liked visiting that beige page.
I might need to build something similar to selfhost, maybe with just one or two bits of UX improvements.
Feedly
Tangential question: Anyone knows any news sites that provide RSS feeds? I know the spectrum of what comprises news is huge, but any examples to start with would be appreciated.
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/
http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1001
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=when:24h+allinurl:reuters.com&ceid=US:en&hl=en-US&gl=US
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national
I use Brief for Firefox: https://github.com/brief-rss/brief It has enough options and it’s still active. I like to have the reader in the web browser, as I usually click and read the article online.
I guess I’m the only one still using FeedDemon.
I’ve exclusively used yarr for something like two years after moving away from TT-RSS. yarr is a single Go binary, uses SQLite, can be entirely keyboard-driven, and is considered feature-complete.
In yarr, I scan headlines and bodies and open what looks interesting in tabs. When I’ve cleared yarr, I use Epub.Press to turn all those tabs into a single epub file. That goes on my ereader and is part of my reading material for the rest of the day. Repeat tomorrow :)
I recently moved from Feedly to Inoreader, Feedly paid account is quite expensive and Inoreader paid features are more cheap and competitive. But thinking of testing miniflux.
I also use News Keeper mini app on Telegram for quick alerts from some RSS.
Slack - it’s not fancy but it does the job. You can choose which channels you want to get alerts for.
Slack for RSS?.. Could you elaborate?
Slack has built in rss feed capability under the /feed command. So, you can set up channels by topic and notification preference, and subscribe to an rss feed in that channel. Then slack posts new items to the channel. Very simple, and free.
Huh, didn’t know that. Pretty cool.
I’m guessing slack bot that posts links from rss/atom feed