Ah totally fair :) Mac at the moment

I’ve been using Newsboat and the now-defunct Newbeuter that it forked from for about ten years. Back when I was posting a dozen stories a day on Lobsters, the majority came from tracking 400+ feeds. Coming from vim and mutt it feels very comfortable. I like that it has near-instant response to keystrokes and no images, I can very quickly skim through hundreds of posts for the handful that are interesting.

It does, unfortunately, have two bugs. One is a crash I’ve seen a few times about a corrupt doubly-linked list, the other is a recent annoyance with custom keys that I’ve just reported, so thanks for that reminder.

If it helps any, here’s my current config:

# no automatic reloading
refresh-on-startup no
auto-reload no
reload-time 360 # minutes

# reloading
reload-threads 8
reload-only-visible-feeds no
show-read-feeds no
download-retries 4

# notification
notify-screen yes
notify-xterm yes

# storage
max-items 5000

# display
article-sort-order date-desc
feedlist-format "%S%n %11u %t"
articlelist-format "%D %f %?T?;%-17T; ?%t"
datetime-format %m-%d
color background white black
color listnormal white black
color listfocus black white
color info black white
color article white black

# interface
confirm-exit yes
bind-key k up
bind-key j down
unbind-key o
bind-key o open-in-browser-and-mark-read
bind-key O open-in-browser
bind-key a open-all-unread-in-browser-and-mark-read

I’ve never used Thunderbird as a feed reader. I don’t even use it for mail; when I want a graphical mail client I use Claws Mail. :)