Anyone used snarfer back in the day? I loved it,was native and light, no bloat.
I still miss Google Reader. I loved the social aspects, where I could repost my favorite articles (with comments about them), and friends could easily subscribe to my feed and comment on my shares. It was a really great social network for sharing blog posts and articles. I credit the demise of Google Reader with a lot of the downfall of the Old Web.<p>Since then, social sharing platforms are motivated to keep you on their platform. I recently ran an experiment on Facebook, where I posted a link to a content creator's video on YouTube with a lot of my thoughts about it.<p>I then downloaded the same video from YouTube and uploaded it to Facebook (this particular creator didn't upload his content to Facebook directly), and posted the <i>exact same text content</i> (but this time, hid the link the the source video in a comment).<p>The post where I downloaded + reposted the video got about 1000x more views than the one where I linked to the source.<p>On top of that, Facebook will often hide the link to the source video unless I click "Show all comments" (rather than the default "Show most relevant").<p>Facebook deprioritizes (shadowbans?) posts that link off of their platform, and it starts feeling like a stagnant pond. It's frustrating that it's difficult to share insightful blog posts on that platform, and I'm feeling pretty done with it.<p>Getting a good RSS reader isn't the part that I'm looking for -- I want the easy social aspect that Google Reader and Google+ gave me.
Decentralized social RSS feed / article recommendations could totally happen if the community came up with a standard way to implement it.<p>Re-posting / paraphrasing a comment I made in a discussion about decentralized recommendation algorithms for RSS feed content:<p>People used to post a "blogroll" (and sometimes an OPML file) to their personal blogs showing the feeds they followed. That was one way to do decentralized recommendations, albeit manually since there was no well-known URL convention for publishing OPML files. If there was a well-known URL convention for publishing OPML files a client could build a recommendation graph.<p>OMPL files in well-known locations would be neat but would only provide feed-level recommendation. Article-level recommendation would be cooler.<p>One of the various federated/decentralized/whatever-Bluesky-is "modern" re-implementations of Twitter/NNTP could be used to drive article-level recommendations. My feed reader could emit machine-readable recommendation posts based on ratings I give while browsing articles. My feed reader could consume these recommendations from others, and then lots of fun could be had weighting recommendations based on social graph, algorithmic summary of the article body, trustworthiness of the poster, friend-of-friend status, etc.<p>I thought about some of this stuff back in '05 when I tried to contribute to ttrss. The maintainer didn't have much interest so I dropped it. I've thought about it periodically but never had the initiative to do anything with it.
> I credit the demise of Google Reader with a lot of the downfall of the Old Web.<p>maybe you have causation wrong. social platforms were so effective they caused downfall of old web, and with it the demise of Google Reader
I used <a href="https://www.theoldreader.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theoldreader.com/en/</a> for a long time before giving up on RSS. At the time it was the most similar to Google's.
Newsblur has a similar social feature
I suppose you could make your own "meta" rss feed today, where you repost interesting articles to this feed, wrapped in your comments.
> Facebook deprioritizes (shadowbans?) posts that link off of their platform<p>That tells you that's not what it's for. It would be like posting your resume on FB and LinkedIn and then pointing out that FB led to fewer job offers than LinkedIn. Different platforms, different purposes.<p>Have you tried Feedly or Inoreader or Flipboard or The Old Reader or any other RSS services that popped up after Google Reader was killed?
>That tells you that's not what it's for. It would be like posting your resume on FB and LinkedIn and then pointing out that FB led to fewer job offers than LinkedIn. Different platforms, different purposes.<p>Only insofar as the purpose of the platform is to generate ad revenue. The contents of the posts were semantically identical and they were made to the same platform; your example involves the same post to two different platforms.
If you're in the Apple ecosystem (Mac, iPhone) NetNewsWire is an absolute delight. It's not a commercial product any more, Brent Simmons runs it as a (very serious) passion project. Here's a recent post by him explaining part of his philosophy for it: <a href="https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html" rel="nofollow">https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-we...</a><p>Crucially, it syncs feed read state between my laptop and phone.
> Crucially, it syncs feed read state between my laptop and phone.<p>This is via iCloud and only works for iPhones/Macs. What’s great though is that NetNewsWire also supports RSS feed aggregators (I personally use FreshRSS) so that you can sync RSS read status over all your devices, even non Apple ones!<p>I’ve been tempted over the years to switch to other RSS apps, but this feature is what keeps me using NetNewsWire.
I have used NetNewsWire since 2003.<p>Really.<p>It’s flawless. It just works. There are no gimmicks, there is no weird effort to gamify it into a social media play, it’s just a user-focused news reader. And that’s great.
Just discovered it a few months ago after using Reeder 3 (no need to upgrade to 4).<p>Works perfectly with a self-hosted FreshRSS backend.
+1 I use NetNewsWire as well.<p>In addition to sync by iCloud, you can also sync with a third-party aggregator (BazQux, Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, or FreshRSS). This can be a good option if you sometimes need access from a non-Apple device.
NNW got me paying for my first RSS client. Reeder got me while it was semi-retired. I still have NNW installed just for nostalgia. Both are great and a solid RSS client is one of the first three apps I'd install on any / every device.
+1 for NetNewsWire, truly delightful. I wish there was a Linux version.
I was surprised not to see the one I use daily, Brief. Maybe it's not on Chrome or something, but it hasn't failed me in like decades.<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/</a>
I'll just shill my own feed reader here:
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-reader/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...</a><p>It currently only runs in Firefox but if anyone is interested, I'll Port it to Chrome since it now supports a sidebar interface.<p>I made this because I wanted to have feeds show up where I read them, in the browser, and I wanted it on my own device so nobody else controls it. No hosting, no payment, just a simple tool that lets me control what I read.<p>Bonus: if you try it you'll likely increase the global usage by double digits ;)
FYI, it's quite easy to support both Firefox and chrome (both mv2 and mv3, even) in a single extension codebase.
Interested. I miss when Firefox sorted in natively, even if it was bare minimum. I've been looking for a lightweight RSS reader for desktop. I'd probably ditch my mobile app too if this was compatible with Firefox mobile.
Could it also be ported as a VSCode extension?
i'm interested in a chrome port!
If you're doing your own reader, please check Rachel by the Bay's Feed Reader Score Project: <a href="https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/" rel="nofollow">https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/</a><p>And follow the best practices: <a href="https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/help.html" rel="nofollow">https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/help.html</a><p>Basically you don't want to hammer the server every minute or even every day if the feed updates once a week. Use ETags and Last-Modified properly.
This is a nice overview but is also obviously content marketing for Lighthouse, which, fine.<p>I use Feedly, and generally like it, but the issue with RSS has very little to do with reader front ends and largely to do with how a lot of people don't publish full articles on RSS, images don't work, etc. The demo images of all the readers are like best case scenario - most non-personal sites only publish a paragraph or two, if that, making the reader more of a link aggregator.
FreshRSS supports CSS selectors and others to get the full content.<p>I've also built a bunch of RSS feed hydrators myself where the process of getting content to the feed isn't as simple as "grab that bit of the page".<p>Like my HN feed uses Opengraph information from the linked article to fill in a picture and preview as well as the Algolia HN api to get scores and comment counts.
I use feedly because it's where I landed after GReader; I don't love it, but it has worked continually without bothering me enough to think about it.<p>But one day I want to look into alternatives, and the number one thing in my wishlist is to be able to scrap sites that crop the full article in the feed. Going from the RSS client to the browser to the reader mode in the browser is such an absurd friction.<p>Edit: Well, after 12 years, that day ended up being today. I found a client called FeedMe that syncs with Feedly and can load the full article inside the client. It also has some other features that I was looking for, like filters. There might be more clients like that, but this is the first I found. I shouldn't have been so lazy all this time.
I use BazQux (<a href="https://bazqux.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bazqux.com/</a>) as it was the closest to the old Google Reader I could find.<p>The developer also set up their own instance of FiveFilters Full Text Rss (<a href="https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/" rel="nofollow">https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/</a>) for use with that reader to do fetch the content. I typically use this as proxy for any feeds I'm going to add where the author didn't provide the full text.<p>Other than that:
* The BazQux web interface has a button to fetch the full text content of the article.
* As you noted, FeedMe on Android can also switch to web mode to fetch full content.<p>I prefer the Five Filters way because then I can go through my feeds offline while in transit
> very little to do with reader front ends and largely to do with how a lot of people don't publish full articles on RSS, images don't work, etc.<p>That's exactly what some of the front ends help resolve - they parse the link to get the full content, some even for sites requiring login.
Some readers can download the full article. I tried Miniflux a while back I think that one supports it.
Just gonna join the many other commenters shilling their favourite, mot mentioned rss reader!<p>I absolutely love Vore (the rss reader, not the other thing!!!) It's really simplistic, and beautifully refuses to do anything I don't want it to.<p><a href="https://vore.website/" rel="nofollow">https://vore.website/</a>
I use the old Reeder still (don’t care for the new one at all, it’s pretty crappy and the subscription has zero value for me), and NetNewsWire is still not as slick on iOS, but the piece is largely on point.
Self plug: I wanted to have RSS feeds on my browser new tab page along with other widgets, and there weren't that many great options for what I wanted out of a new tab page; so i created my own! <a href="https://newtabwidgets.com" rel="nofollow">https://newtabwidgets.com</a>.<p>I find the new tab page to be the ideal location for RSS feeds as I can quickly see new updates each time I open a new tab (which is quite frequently!).<p>It's on the Chrome Web Store:
<a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/new-tab-widgets/ejnndgifkmlldcdlifjaeanhjegoafcl" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/new-tab-widgets/ejn...</a>
NetNewsWire is great, and the developer is just in it for the love of the game and the open web.<p><a href="https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/Technotes/HowToSupportNetNewsWire.markdown" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/T...</a>
I've been using Docker containers for RSS Bridge and FreshRSS on my local machine, which has been a game changer, particularly with regards to following certain TikTok creators via RSS, meaning I can ignore the algorithm altogether. I wish it were more stable, however, the TikTok feeds can break from time to time...
Unless I misunderstand, it also misses that Newsblur is open source and can be self hosted <a href="https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur</a>
Newsboat + miniflux is an <i>excellent</i> combination if you're CLI-addicted but want to access feeds from multiple devices.<p>For all the (justifiable) concern about the death of RSS, we have a glut of excellent options for consuming content through RSS. But I'm still sour about the Reeder redesign. At least the dev was transparent about building the tool he wanted to use but, ugh, it's barely in the same market as the others now.
I really hope sites continue their RSS feeds. It seems like less and less of them have them available or don’t care to keep them updated.
Some links<p><a href="https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS</a><p><a href="https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds</a><p>My problem with most RSS do not have great search. With 500+ sources this can become problem.<p><a href="https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive</a> - my own project
Anybody know of a self-hosted RSS reader that can remember different views for different folders?<p>I'm using Inoreader which does that - I have a folder that is displayed as titles only, and a different one that displays as "cards".<p>I've tried a few of the more famous self-hosted ones, but none of them have that feature. I know that a keyboard shortcut can be used to change views, but my early-morning doomscrolling brain doesn't want to think about that.
Going to shill for Feedbin (<a href="https://feedbin.com" rel="nofollow">https://feedbin.com</a>). I switched to this in 2012 when Reader blew up and it has remained a consistently excellent product since then.<p>I use the web client, and on iOS I use Reeder app to access Feedbin. Ben even published the a Feedbin API¹, which I wrote a Feedbin client for vintage computers (I called Mosaicbin)². I even use it for YouTube subs as of this year and it ingests them perfectly (and can filter Shorts).<p>I'm still on the original pricing but would happily pay $5/mo current price if it came to that. It's a product that would leave a huge void in my life if it ever disappeared.<p>¹ - <a href="https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api</a><p>² - <a href="https://github.com/jonpurdy/mosaicbin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jonpurdy/mosaicbin</a>
I second this recommendation!<p>I joined later than you: May 2013. If it really was 2012 when Google Reader blew up, I can't remember what I used before finding Feedbin. Maybe Feedly, maybe something else that came and went or maybe even a local reader...<p>For Android users, I recommend "Capy Reader" as a client.
What’s missing are the email digest services. I built a simple little service that sends rss digests to my email: <a href="https://pico.sh/feeds" rel="nofollow">https://pico.sh/feeds</a><p>Check it out
I’m disappointed in the article but watching RSS for 25 years (declared dead for most of them) have gotten me used to disappointment. It just seems like every discussion about RSS starts as if it was some brand new thing and not if we didn’t have 25 years of experience with it.<p>The article makes a matrix out of the least important attributes of the product (free vs hosted) and has nothing at all to say about: (1) user interface and (2) architecture.<p>(2) of course puts constraints on (1) but gets you to the heart of the RSS predicament. It is possible in principle for an RSS reader to be completely stateless, that is you could make an HTML page with some JavaScript in it that reads an OPML file and then hits all those RSS feeds and formats them somehow. Or you could write some scripts that do the same with curl. [1]<p>The stateful system has a lot of advantages, particularly that the state <i>never</i> gets corrupted because it doesn’t exist. If you could add some simple and reliable layer that dealt with the worst of the polling problems with a cache then you could still stay pretty simple.<p>Past that though the architecture could get complex pretty quick in that you may want to reify feed items and store them in a database, keep track of whether you read something or not, run queries against the feed, run a recommender against the feed, etc.<p>[1] … if your cache mechanisms will protect you from polling <i>some</i> people’s RSS feeds too fast. Maybe you’re better off if they block you.
> [1] … if your cache mechanisms will protect you from polling some people’s RSS feeds too fast. Maybe you’re better off if they block you.<p>They do, just use `--etag-save` and `--etag-compare` and curl does proper caching, since 2020: <a href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/12/06/curl-speaks-etag/" rel="nofollow">https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/12/06/curl-speaks-etag/</a><p>I have dabbled with replacing my RSS reader with something like this, but haven't done it, yet.
Okay this is a thinly veiled ad for Lighthouse, and a clever attempt at getting backlinks, SEO value, etc.<p>So my real question is what is the value of Lighthouse compared to Feedly or Inoreader?
Happy user of Flym, a free Android reader:<p><a href="https://github.com/FredJul/Flym" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FredJul/Flym</a>
If it hasn't already been mentioned huge fan of newsboat paired with Lynx in the terminal. Travels easily and with lynx browser kinda brings me back to a more focused reading experience.
FeedFlow (all platforms and can be synced over freshRSS)
<a href="https://github.com/prof18/feed-flow" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/prof18/feed-flow</a><p>Would be cool if lawnchair for android could integrate RSS as news feed..
Yes, like 95% of commenters here, I also have an RSS reader. Mine is kinda social (you can follow people and see their subscriptions in your feed), and also has full-text search and “related” recommendations. I also curate and grow a directory of human-written personal blogs: <a href="https://minifeed.net" rel="nofollow">https://minifeed.net</a><p>Due to the nature of the medium, the majority of blogs in the directory and technical.
This is cool — I love it-- the layout and list of the people.
Your OMPL list is awesome. I am also working in a similar direction. Right now, I am following only a few people in my RSS feed, so your list is really helpful.
No mention of Elfeed or even Gnus?
Here is my "rss reader"
<a href="https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/" rel="nofollow">https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/</a><p>I wanted to have a list of latest posts of blogs I follow and that I can access it quickly from both PC and mobile phone without any signing in. Then I decided to do it myself like that.
There is a github workflow that runs automatically every 6 hours and updates that page.
A bit of a self-promotion, but relevant. I've been working on a TUI feed reader that stores all articles locally in Markdown in a filesystem structure, similar to what Obsidian does, if anyone's interested: <a href="https://github.com/CrociDB/bulletty" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/CrociDB/bulletty</a>
I used Feeder on my Android phone for the longest time. Recently set up a NixOS server and enabled FreshRSS on it, with FocusReader as the Android client. It is <i>very</i> nice to manage feeds on a server and have the read/unread status sync across devices.<p>If you have only used device-local readers before and have a server to spare, I recommend at least trying it!
TIL everyone on HN has built an RSS reader.
I’ll add <a href="https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer</a> to the self-hosted list. It is my reader of choice since I think over ten years. Never had the feeling of looking for another one.
Big fan of <a href="https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS</a>, not mentioned in the article. I self host at home and it sends feed updates to my own Discord server. I appreciate the customization for how the feed notification appear in Discord.
I've been a big fan of Iconfactory's Tapestry for a while now. It supports RSS, plus a bunch of custom connectors for non-RSS things. You could write your own to pull down whatever random thing you wanted, like GitHub Actions outputs or screenshots of your home webcam.
I don't know if it's permanently dead or not but I really like QuiteRSS:<p><a href="https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss</a><p>Last update was 4 years ago; I don't know if this means the project is dead or merely "done." One of the last features added was the ability to share a news item to Hacker News:<p><a href="https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss/issues/1084#issue-332481892" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss/issues/1084#issue-33248...</a><p>I have used this app on Windows and macOS; I've installed it on Linux but I don't do daily work on Linux so I don't know if it's stable there or not.
Check on RSSGuard, I checked a few weeks ago after another reccomendation here, and the dev was working on importing the QuiteRSS sqlite db.<p>It seems he has already completed it? I'll try to migrate this weekend then
<a href="https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/1707#issuecomment-3351551103" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/1707#issueco...</a>
I recently enabled RSS for my own blog¹ and found it very frustrating getting the images/thumbs to display properly. The reason it was frustrating is the aggressive caching by the RSS readers. I had to debug it on a bunch of different readers, then once it was finally working change the URL of my feed to force them all to refresh.<p>The RSS feeds are surprisingly non-standardized for the media content extensions, even a simple thumbnail.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.jasonthorsness.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.jasonthorsness.com</a> at <a href="https://www.jasonthorsness.com/rss.xml" rel="nofollow">https://www.jasonthorsness.com/rss.xml</a>
I've been using Feedbin basically since Google Reader died. There are many feedbin compatible clients.<p>I'd probably honestly like to move to something self-hosted, but afaik there is no way to export the read status of individual feed items. OPML is just a list of feeds and their URLs, not their individual item history.
Here is a terminal based reader that I recently created as an alternative to newsboat <a href="https://github.com/jarv/newsgoat" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jarv/newsgoat</a><p>It has some features that I felt was missing from the terminal based readers out there already.
The author of Reeder has another RSS app that’s focused on recipes called Mela [1]. I’ve been using Reeder (the one-time payment version) and Mela for years and highly recommend both.<p>[1] <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-recipe-manager/id1548466041">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-recipe-manager/id15484660...</a>
I doubt this actually exists, but does anyone know of an RSS reader that is cross platform, open source, and can sync between multiple devices via syncthing?<p>I already sync notes, e-books, etc, via syncthing on Android and Linux. RSS is one place where I have yet to find an option.
I pay for both Feedly and Inoreader. I can't seem to break away from Feedly's multi-inner-tab reading features, but I like Inoreader's tagging/sorting.
Article feels AI generated and misses some big ones. Given that this is advertising for their product, I don’t feel like this is actually useful (meaning unbiased and comprehensive) content for anyone who wants to figure out what RSS reader fits their needs.
If you are in the Apple ecosystem I recommend News Explorer. It has a very nice interface and it syncs with your iCloud. It is a one-time payment of $4.99.<p><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/news-explorer/id1032668306">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/news-explorer/id1032668306</a>
I'm happy to just use Feedly.<p>Keeps my feeds in sync between the mobile app and the web site, has pretty good keyboard shortcuts, mostly just gets out of the way, doesn't have ads
I'm not sure what else I'd need
No wonder they did everything they could to hide RSS from the masses: it's such a shame that users control their own feeds rather than their obscure algorithms.
Liferea looks too old, has a lot of bugs... But man that thing makes me happy, just headlines and click what I want to read.
Commafeed is also hosted at commafeed.com
> A deep dive<p>can't we just call things "A thorough examination / analysis" anymore?
When Google Reader closed I started using The Old Reader and then after 3 or 4 years jumped to Inoreader.<p>I've been using it since then without paying anything and it works ok.
If you're looking for an on-device terminal feed reader, here's mine: <a href="https://github.com/ckampfe/russ" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ckampfe/russ</a><p>Some folks seem to like it.
no mention of rss via email?<p><a href="https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email</a>
<a href="https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/</a><p>i have been using this for 20 years already. by now my own version has accumulated a few custom patches. but the original it is still under active development/support.
some day i need to submit my changes upstream.
I was wondering why Tiny Tiny RSS was missing as that's what I've been using for the last 10+ years. At the bottom of the article there's the explanation:<p>> On October 3rd the maintainer announced that he's going to stop working on it, and will remove all infrastructure on November 1st. Forks of the project with other maintainers may pop up, but at the moment it's too soon to tell what the future of Tiny Tiny RSS will be.
The person who forked it (<a href="https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss</a>) was <i>very</i> active on the original Tiny Tiny RSS development side as well as on the forums. I have a good feeling that this fork will work out just fine.
A fork is on GitHub and the domain tt-rss.org points to it. It'll be interesting to see if it gets significant development work
Various discussions around here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466224">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466224</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468320">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468320</a>
Claude Code built me a custom RSS feed reader in just an hour or so. I wanted a simple list of unread posts, which would be auto-deleted when I clicked on them to read them. It took less than 24 hours to go from "ok I'll try to make this" to having it up and running "in production" on my home server.<p>AI could be a real game changer for anyone who runs their own server or homelab. If you can't find a reader you like, just make one! It's not that hard these days.
I just made a python script that I keep running that updates when there is a new post from one of my feeds. Feed list is stored locally.
FreshRSS is so good. Using it for webscraping and syncing with my android app.
yarr is a fantastic selfhosted reader
This is what I'm using right now. I like that it has a built-in "reader mode" where it fetches the target article from the website and removes all the crud.<p>But I do have a wishlist of creature-comfort items that would probably never make it in:<p>* I go days/weeks without reading anything and trying to find out where I left off is a big pain. There doesn't seem to be a way to sort chonologicaly (only reverse).<p>* The only difference between read/unread items is a tiny gray dot in front of the article title. (I'd rather have the unread items stand out more from the read ones, with a different background, bold text, etc.)<p>* It would be nice to have a per-feed setting of whether to show the article as it appears in the RSS feed, or go fetch it from the web in reader mode.
Counterpoint, I've been using yarr almost daily for about a year and I can't say I share any of your wishlist items. I love how simple and elegant it is, and anything that makes the UI more complex or distracting would only take away from that.<p>I run it on a VPS so I can access it from phone+laptop and it looks great everywhere. I've only "augmented" it by throwing a basic rss bridge on the same server (well, the bridge is really single-file python script that generates rss feeds from other sources).
I built an RSS reader in 2005. I never figured out how to 100% reliably detect already downloaded articles.
Feedly's bullshit about AI and enterprise "insights" is incredibly irritating. Like, I read articles about cooking and math. Why would I want AI-powered security insights? Why would anyone want them, for that matter? It seems incredibly... clueless.
>Like, I read articles about cooking and math. Why would I want AI-powered security insights? Why would anyone want them, for that matter?<p>It's government's social program.<p>Most people are so ignorant about digital security that governments force media providers (social media, newspapers, bloggers) to make native content about how to not tell your bank password to a random person on the internet.
No tt-rss?
If people would only set their CORS headers, you could make a feed reader in a static web page.
Try this too <a href="https://fraidyc.at/" rel="nofollow">https://fraidyc.at/</a>
Happy daily user of FeedBro in Firefox here. I've been using it for 3 years and it's exactly what I expect it to be. It just goes.
FeedBro is also a <i>recommended extension</i>.<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...</a>
I use this. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't just have the application work in the browser, unless it's on mobile.
I would like an headless RSS feed aggregator that stores (and categorizes?) feeds and articles in a DB and exposes a rich API.
I was looking into this a few days ago, but was having a hard time finding an RSS reader that was desktop software and handled Youtube feeds. I couldn’t find anything that wasn’t tied to a SaaS or required hosting online.
I believe yarr fills all your requirements. Can run as standalone on linux, and if you click "read here" the video gets embed. Assuming an extra click is not disqualifying. Note I have not verified this because I host it on a VPS.<p><a href="https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr</a>
If you're on iOS or MacOS I can highly recommend NetNewsWire (<a href="https://netnewswire.com/" rel="nofollow">https://netnewswire.com/</a>).
Linux :/ sorry…
Seconded. I've been using NetNewsWire for a couple of decades, and it does the unglamorous job of displaying feeds without ads, nags, or feature churn.
What readers have you tried? What do you mean by "handled YouTube feeds". YouTube feeds just work as far as I am aware, they are fairly regular feeds. Are you expecting something in particular?
Requirements:<p>- Linux support<p>- doesn’t make me click a link and load the video in the browser, but plays in app<p>Akregator on KDE Plasma doesn’t support this, but you’d think “video/podcast” support would be a feature listed in the bullets of the feed reader software. A lot of the readers I looked at did not have it listed on a quick glance.
You can set this up today with newsboat, if you are fine with writing a small helper script that will parse browsing links for "youtube" string and open them directly in mpv. There are a bunch of examples of these sorts of scripts on peoples githubs where they already went through the trouble of writing regex for video and image file links (beyond just youtube) for you. You then add a line in the newsboat config file to set the default browser to your helper script.<p>I extended one to include opening rss subscribed reddit links in rtv in my terminal window, for example.
Thunderbird handles youtube feeds just fine.
There's very few things an AI agent can easier make than an rss reader. Just do it, customize it to your liking and finished...
No tt-rss? Weird.
Isn't this just marketing AI slop? There is no real structure, several readers are described with more details, others aren't. At the end there is an ad for Lighthouse.
Another free one <a href="http://gitHub.com/lallassu/gorss" rel="nofollow">http://gitHub.com/lallassu/gorss</a> :)
> Their main purpose is enabling their users to consume content<p>Here we go again... no, "consume content" is what the commercial social networks want you to do so you stick around until the next ad break. (Maybe even what a commercial SaaS RSS reader wants you to do so you pay the next bill.)<p>I use RSS specifically to get away from generic "content". Instead I read to learn things, and to explore opoinions I might not otherwise come in contact with, and to socialise with other people.
"Everything Is Content Now" by Patrick (H) Willems:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtbFwzZp6Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtbFwzZp6Y</a>
It bugs me too when actual humans adopt soulless management-speak about "content" traveling from "producer" to "consumer." (The words don't even make sense: when you consume food, it's gone; when you observe text, an image, or video, it's still there.) I use RSS to keep up with other people who "emit content" at irregular intervals.