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nonethewiser wrote 1 hour 35 min ago:
I stopped all social media a while ago. Unless you consider hackernews,
reddit, etc. social media. I always considered these news
aggregators/forums as different but I digress.
I recently wondered how my perspective would change if I cut that out
too. Would my understand of "what really happened" change? Would my
worldview change? I already find myself disagreeing with "my" groups
fairly frequently but still, I wonder what different conclusions I
would come to if I just consumed the primary sources. Of course the
source will matter ideally I could read a wide variety of sources on
the same story.
For some reason I never thought about RSS. But its the perfect tool for
the job.
glenstein wrote 1 hour 30 min ago:
It does raise a question if there's such a thing as a "minimum
effective dose" of news consumption, and diminishing returns at
certain thresholds of consumption. For instance, is one RSS feed with
NYT headlines perhaps comprehensive enough that it is 90%
functionally equivalent to a more voracious habit of reading diverse
sources, subject matter expert blogs and so on?
nonethewiser wrote 1 hour 2 min ago:
That is a good question and I had the same thought while
constructing it. Almost like stock market diversification. You can
represent the entire market pretty well with just a handful of
stocks.
However, this seems like an overwhelmingly NO:
>is one RSS feed with NYT headlines perhaps comprehensive enough
that it is 90% functionally equivalent to a more voracious habit of
reading diverse sources, subject matter expert blogs and so on?
The NYT, and pretty much all publications, reflect a singular
editorial perspective. I think at minimum you would want 1 left, 1
right, and 1 center.
dhruvmittal wrote 1 hour 41 min ago:
Although I've been an Inoreader user over the last few years, this year
I switched to Miniflux. I felt like features/cost ratio for Inoreader
finally tipped away from what I was interested in paying. Migrating to
Miniflux was genuinely very easy-- spin up the docker compose, export
OPML from Inoreader, import OPML to Miniflux. I use tsdproxy and
tailscale funnels to get access to the web endpoint.
While I started out just using the webapp, I quickly discovered that
there large number of Miniflux compatible applications. I eventually
settled on:
- Read You on my Android Phone and Tablet [1] - Reactflux (web) on my
windows laptop [2] - RSSGuard on my linux desktop [3] - Reeder classic
on iPad (I already owned this, might as well keep using it)
- PoweReader on my work iPhone [4] One neat thing about Miniflux is
that it supports a number of APIs, including Fever and Google Reader.
As long as your frontend works with one of these, you get a seamless
experience. This level of choice is actually something I'm really
enjoying-- I get a very native experience on whatever platform I use,
as opposed to using the Inoreader app/website on each platform.
URI [1]: https://github.com/ReadYouApp/ReadYou
URI [2]: https://github.com/electh/ReactFlux
URI [3]: https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
URI [4]: https://powereader.app/
NoSalt wrote 1 hour 52 min ago:
Just write your own RSS feed reader; it can be done easily in
[relatively] few lines of JavaScript.
brachkow wrote 2 hours 27 min ago:
I have tried most of the RSS on the market, and for last three years
i'm staying on BazQux.
I try to read everything on the internet via my reader so it is
important to me that it:
1. can discover not so obvious feeds like youtube or reddit
2. makes rss feeds for non rss services â in the past it had feeds
for twitter, vk and instagram that didn't provide feed. Sadly this is
no longer a thing I beleive as such thing as social media public api
dissappeared
3. can retreive full text of article
That said I believe you need to think of choosing of RSS reader as
about choosing a mighty backend for the feeds. There is nothing
difficult in rendering nice text from XML. Real difficulty is in making
RSS avaliable on sites that are hostile to RSS (and will became more
hostile in future).
And for the chosen backend, you can choose any frontend â just look
at RSS apps in app store for your platform. Most of them will support
using other backends. Reeder for Apple devices is nice.
braza wrote 3 hours 10 min ago:
I bit of out-topic, but the best recommendation that I had here in HN
was definitely the FreshRSS [1].
Yes, the design sounds _phpish_, but on Docker it's so reliable and
fast, that I feel that I am in some sort of "final version of the
software" and not needing anything else or enhancements, like WinRar,
Notepad.exe, Winamp, Nero Burning ROM, Windows XP, etc.
I do not know if others have the same feeling about a software that
works so great, that _any_ update will be a downgrade given the high
level of contentment and satisfaction. [1] -
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097105
solaire_oa wrote 2 hours 7 min ago:
I can second the recommendation for FreshRSS- it's incredibly
utilitarian and I have no complaints. I've been using it for about 4
years. It's how I came to this thread!
Couldn't agree more about the "final version" sentiment: my self
hosted instance sat there for the first two years, untouched, working
flawlessly and used daily. It's only when I switched server hardware
that I actually performed an upgrade to the latest version,
pleasantly surprised to find that there were no major changes (minor
QoL patches only) and everything just worked.
gregoriol wrote 3 hours 23 min ago:
Some very important criteria, more than the hosting itself, is if the
feeds can be accessed from multiple devices (desktop, mobile, tablet,
commandline?, ...)
cykros wrote 4 hours 52 min ago:
I've been enjoying TT-RSS, though I do miss when the mobile app
companion for it actually worked well. The web interface does work
fine, and it does integrate with other local readers (such as
newsboat), and allows for a centralized database so that I'm not stuck
filtering what I've read on my desktop vs what I've read on my phone.
abc123abc123 wrote 4 hours 54 min ago:
Newsraft! [1] It is the Trump of RSS readers!
URI [1]: https://codeberg.org/newsraft/newsraft
soapdog wrote 6 hours 34 min ago:
Sad that my feed reader browser extension is not on the list. It is
quite feature complete: [1] The author says they only found one browser
extension that was a feedreader, that is not the case. So I'm posting
here in case anyone else is looking for that type of solution.
URI [1]: https://blogcat.org
integricho wrote 8 hours 27 min ago:
Anyone used snarfer back in the day? I loved it,was native and light,
no bloat.
phreack wrote 8 hours 52 min ago:
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.
URI [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
rcarmo wrote 9 hours 4 min ago:
I use the old Reeder still (donât care for the new one at all, itâs
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.
Hamuko wrote 7 hours 52 min ago:
Also on the old Reeder (v5), with a local FreshRSS as the back-end.
It's fantastic on Mac, iOS and iPadOS, and I have no desire to move
to the new Reeder or any alternative.
theshrike79 wrote 10 hours 1 min ago:
If you're doing your own reader, please check Rachel by the Bay's Feed
Reader Score Project: [1] And follow the best practices: [1] help.html
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.
URI [1]: https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/
URI [2]: https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/help.html
benrutter wrote 10 hours 1 min ago:
Just gonna join the many other commenters shilling their favourite, mot
mentioned rss reader!
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.
URI [1]: https://vore.website/
j3s wrote 4 hours 33 min ago:
author here, glad u enjoy my lil project! lmk if there's anything
you'd like to see.
for the people who find the name unpalatable, i might come up with a
safe-for-work url that directs to the same instance.
stranges wrote 10 hours 30 min ago:
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...
skinnymuch wrote 10 hours 7 min ago:
Super cool to be able to get TikTok feeds. Getting social media feeds
in general in feed reader seems great.
ctrlt wrote 10 hours 43 min ago:
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! [1] .
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!).
It's on the Chrome Web Store:
URI [1]: https://newtabwidgets.com
URI [2]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/new-tab-widgets/ejnnd...
rootnod3 wrote 10 hours 43 min ago:
No mention of Elfeed or even Gnus?
kirenida wrote 11 hours 54 min ago:
Anybody know of a self-hosted RSS reader that can remember different
views for different folders?
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".
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.
aboardRat4 wrote 12 hours 59 min ago:
No tt-rss?
James_K wrote 13 hours 12 min ago:
If people would only set their CORS headers, you could make a feed
reader in a static web page.
oogabooga13 wrote 14 hours 27 min ago:
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.
ajkjk wrote 14 hours 39 min ago:
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.
aboardRat4 wrote 12 hours 49 min ago:
>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's government's social program.
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.
ajkjk wrote 4 hours 14 min ago:
What are you talking about?
browningstreet wrote 17 hours 1 min ago:
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.
qudat wrote 17 hours 4 min ago:
Whatâs missing are the email digest services. I built a simple little
service that sends rss digests to my email: [1] Check it out
URI [1]: https://pico.sh/feeds
squirrellous wrote 12 hours 26 min ago:
Not a user (yet) but just want to say I concur that email is the best
medium for RSS feeds, so kudos.
hn-ifs wrote 11 hours 9 min ago:
I disagree, I use RSS so I don't need to clog up my email with
feeds or sure updates, etc. I flat out refuse to sign up for
mailing lists for the same reason. RSS is the perfect solution.
squirrellous wrote 10 hours 42 min ago:
I probably shouldâve qualified the âbest mediumâ with
something more specific. But Iâll submit two reasons why email
is best for me and maybe some others:
- Email is the one thing that isnât tied to any platform and
~always works, so itâs worth it to put in some effort into
managing subscriptions / filters / labels / etc knowing that they
will pay off indefinitely.
- Itâs nice to consume content in the original format intended
by the author, so I prefer receiving an article link in the email
with a preview, and clicking through to read it. A dedicated
reader invariably has problems rendering non-text content and
doesnât have all the features of a browser.
wpollock wrote 17 hours 40 min ago:
Happy user of Flym, a free Android reader:
URI [1]: https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
Martin_Silenus wrote 17 hours 54 min ago:
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.
PaulHoule wrote 18 hours 39 min ago:
Iâm 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 didnât have 25 years of experience with
it.
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.
(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]
The stateful system has a lot of advantages, particularly that the
state never gets corrupted because it doesnât 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.
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.
[1] ⦠if your cache mechanisms will protect you from polling some
peopleâs RSS feeds too fast. Maybe youâre better off if they block
you.
CGamesPlay wrote 16 hours 11 min ago:
> [1] ⦠if your cache mechanisms will protect you from polling some
peopleâs RSS feeds too fast. Maybe youâre better off if they
block you.
They do, just use `--etag-save` and `--etag-compare` and curl does
proper caching, since 2020: [1] I have dabbled with replacing my RSS
reader with something like this, but haven't done it, yet.
URI [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/12/06/curl-speaks-etag/
hn-ifs wrote 11 hours 6 min ago:
I was recently looking at using Nushell to do the same thing.
Nushell can natively do almost all you need for this.
flkiwi wrote 19 hours 5 min ago:
Newsboat + miniflux is an excellent combination if you're CLI-addicted
but want to access feeds from multiple devices.
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.
AJ007 wrote 21 min ago:
I've been using newsboat for years. I've thought about trying out
miniflux for a while, but a few days ago I got a different idea.
First, the newsboat DB is SQLlite so it's easy to access. I wrote a
few scripts that built static HTML pages of all of the feeds along
with a feed style page. I copied the HN page html/CSS, which to me
feels like the maximum compact view while still being readable.
Now I have a bash script that will refresh all of the newsboat feeds
and then open the static HTML page in the default web browser.
Thinking a lot about the impact of "vibe" coding recently made me
wonder why anyone needs to be locked in to not just a set UI but any
sort of rigid external control of how the user sees and interacts
with information.
I want to see all my news chronologically. Now in a single place I
have hn, lobste.rs, numerous twitter/x feeds, mastodon, and a lot of
other blogs all visible chronologically. If someone was noisy I could
apply keyword filters to the feeds and block certain things out. If I
wanted to, I could put this on a server and access it through my
phone.
This was definitely "the easy" way to do this. You could raise $1
million and do the same thing the hard way.
theshrike79 wrote 9 hours 39 min ago:
I never upgraded to Reeder 4, stuck with 3 until I found
(rediscovered?) NetNewsWire and connected it to my FreshRSS instance.
FergusArgyll wrote 19 hours 38 min ago:
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...
AndrewDucker wrote 19 hours 39 min ago:
I'm happy to just use Feedly.
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
yomismoaqui wrote 19 hours 41 min ago:
When Google Reader closed I started using The Old Reader and then after
3 or 4 years jumped to Inoreader.
I've been using it since then without paying anything and it works ok.
prism56 wrote 19 hours 45 min ago:
FreshRSS is so good. Using it for webscraping and syncing with my
android app.
thefz wrote 19 hours 47 min ago:
No tt-rss? Weird.
sunaookami wrote 19 hours 32 min ago:
tt-rss was discontinued a few days ago:
URI [1]: https://community.tt-rss.org/t/the-end-of-tt-rss-org/7164
thefz wrote 9 hours 29 min ago:
It still lives as a fork:
URI [1]: https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss/wiki
aboardRat4 wrote 12 hours 47 min ago:
The code still works.
dugite-code wrote 17 hours 33 min ago:
The domain now points to a GitHub project. It'll be interesting if
enough Devs pick up the work
__aru wrote 19 hours 53 min ago:
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?
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.
donatj wrote 20 hours 0 min ago:
I've been using Feedbin basically since Google Reader died. There are
many feedbin compatible clients.
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.
jonpurdy wrote 20 hours 4 min ago:
Going to shill for Feedbin ( [1] ). I switched to this in 2012 when
Reader blew up and it has remained a consistently excellent product
since then.
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).
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.
¹ - [2] ² -
URI [1]: https://feedbin.com
URI [2]: https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api
URI [3]: https://github.com/jonpurdy/mosaicbin
sjs382 wrote 19 hours 24 min ago:
I second this recommendation!
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...
For Android users, I recommend "Capy Reader" as a client.
jonpurdy wrote 4 hours 6 min ago:
Correction, Google announced shutting down Reader in 2013. IIRC
Feedbin was created at the same time in response to that. So we
were both likely among the first users.
hysan wrote 20 hours 6 min ago:
Article feels AI generated and misses some big ones. Given that this is
advertising for their product, I donât feel like this is actually
useful (meaning unbiased and comprehensive) content for anyone who
wants to figure out what RSS reader fits their needs.
AlienRobot wrote 20 hours 35 min ago:
Try this too
URI [1]: https://fraidyc.at/
zoidb wrote 20 hours 52 min ago:
Here is a terminal based reader that I recently created as an
alternative to newsboat [1] It has some features that I felt was
missing from the terminal based readers out there already.
URI [1]: https://github.com/jarv/newsgoat
ebbi wrote 20 hours 17 min ago:
This just reminded me of Teletext!
notachatbot123 wrote 21 hours 35 min ago:
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.
dewey wrote 21 hours 25 min ago:
Many links shared on HN are content marketing for various companies.
In this case it's a good start for a discussion and sharing RSS tool
that are not listed on that list.
CrociDB wrote 21 hours 39 min ago:
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:
URI [1]: https://github.com/CrociDB/bulletty
em-bee wrote 21 hours 48 min ago:
no mention of rss via email? [1] [2] 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.
URI [1]: https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
URI [2]: https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/
mike-cardwell wrote 20 hours 9 min ago:
I have my own custom perl script which basically does the same which
I've been using for probably a similar amount of time. Never used a
dedicated RSS reader. My feeds just get turned into email and dropped
into the appropriate folder thanks to my sieve filters. Can
read/delete things from any of my email clients. Absolutely no need
for a dedicated RSS reader.
contradictioned wrote 21 hours 52 min ago:
Iâll add [1] 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.
URI [1]: https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer
swanson wrote 18 hours 23 min ago:
it made my day to see this comment, i was the original creator,
awesome to see people still using it!
grigio wrote 21 hours 56 min ago:
yarr is a fantastic selfhosted reader
bityard wrote 17 hours 19 min ago:
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.
But I do have a wishlist of creature-comfort items that would
probably never make it in:
* 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).
* 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.)
* 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.
pierrec wrote 11 hours 26 min ago:
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.
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).
freetonik wrote 21 hours 59 min ago:
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 ârelatedâ recommendations.
I also curate and grow a directory of human-written personal blogs: [1]
Due to the nature of the medium, the majority of blogs in the directory
and technical.
URI [1]: https://minifeed.net
aalukabi wrote 21 hours 37 min ago:
This is cool â 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.
netule wrote 22 hours 9 min ago:
TIL everyone on HN has built an RSS reader.
dpcx wrote 22 hours 23 min ago:
Unless I misunderstand, it also misses that Newsblur is open source and
can be self hosted
URI [1]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
davidcbc wrote 19 hours 46 min ago:
They also have a free tier for the hosted version that is pretty
generous (64 sites). I used the free hosted version for years after
Reader went away and only upgraded as a way to support software that
I use and enjoy regularly.
asa400 wrote 22 hours 29 min ago:
If you're looking for an on-device terminal feed reader, here's mine:
[1] Some folks seem to like it.
URI [1]: https://github.com/ckampfe/russ
jasonthorsness wrote 22 hours 40 min ago:
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.
The RSS feeds are surprisingly non-standardized for the media content
extensions, even a simple thumbnail. [1] at [1] /rss.xml
URI [1]: https://www.jasonthorsness.com
URI [2]: https://www.jasonthorsness.com/rss.xml
righthand wrote 20 hours 19 min ago:
RSS specifically or does the Atom standard also fail?
jasonthorsness wrote 16 hours 43 min ago:
Didnât try Atom; just generated RSS based on the spec and
examples that worked in the readers I tried
npilk wrote 22 hours 41 min ago:
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.
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.
codingclaws wrote 22 hours 53 min ago:
I built an RSS reader in 2005. I never figured out how to 100% reliably
detect already downloaded articles.
aboardRat4 wrote 12 hours 49 min ago:
This is one place where AI could actually help.
davidcox143 wrote 22 hours 56 min ago:
The author of Reeder has another RSS app thatâs focused on recipes
called Mela [1]. Iâve been using Reeder (the one-time payment
version) and Mela for years and highly recommend both.
URI [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-recipe-manager/id1548466041
renegat0x0 wrote 22 hours 57 min ago:
Some links [1] [2] My problem with most RSS do not have great search.
With 500+ sources this can become problem. [3] - my own project
URI [1]: https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS
URI [2]: https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds
URI [3]: https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
galleywest200 wrote 23 hours 0 min ago:
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.
URI [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/news-explorer/id1032668306
pantulis wrote 2 hours 29 min ago:
Seconded, it's awesome.
dinkblam wrote 23 hours 1 min ago:
> A deep dive
can't we just call things "A thorough examination / analysis" anymore?
danhon wrote 22 hours 47 min ago:
It's content marketing.
mikece wrote 23 hours 2 min ago:
I don't know if it's permanently dead or not but I really like
QuiteRSS: [1] 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: [1]
/issues/1084#issue-33248...
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.
URI [1]: https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss
URI [2]: https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss/issues/1084#issue-3324818...
ajot wrote 22 hours 7 min ago:
Check on RSSGuard, I checked a few weeks ago after another
reccomendation here, and the dev was working on importing the
QuiteRSS sqlite db.
It seems he has already completed it? I'll try to migrate this
weekend then
URI [1]: https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/1707#issueco...
kstrauser wrote 23 hours 4 min ago:
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.
jklinger410 wrote 23 hours 14 min ago:
Okay this is a thinly veiled ad for Lighthouse, and a clever attempt at
getting backlinks, SEO value, etc.
So my real question is what is the value of Lighthouse compared to
Feedly or Inoreader?
AndyMcConachie wrote 23 hours 20 min ago:
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.
lanfeust6 wrote 14 hours 31 min ago:
I use this. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't just have the
application work in the browser, unless it's on mobile.
heresie-dabord wrote 15 hours 50 min ago:
FeedBro is also a recommended extension.
URI [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...
HanClinto wrote 23 hours 24 min ago:
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.
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.
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 exact same text content (but this time, hid
the link the the source video in a comment).
The post where I downloaded + reposted the video got about 1000x more
views than the one where I linked to the source.
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").
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.
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.
OisinMoran wrote 18 min ago:
Shameless plug but you might enjoy the site I've been working on for
the past few years: lynkmi.com
It's very much inspired by the earlier web and more recently
especially catalysed by the trend you note of the big sites punishing
doors to elsewhere. I remember a time when Facebook actually had a
"links" section where you could see a list of all the cool stuff you
had posted, so it's sad they've strayed so far.
Join the resistance! Every tag and profile automatically has an RSS
feed too, and I just recently added internal backlinks which I'm
enjoying a lot.
EvanAnderson wrote 8 hours 53 min ago:
Decentralized social RSS feed / article recommendations could totally
happen if the community came up with a standard way to implement it.
Re-posting / paraphrasing a comment I made in a discussion about
decentralized recommendation algorithms for RSS feed content:
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.
OMPL files in well-known locations would be neat but would only
provide feed-level recommendation. Article-level recommendation would
be cooler.
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.
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.
AJ007 wrote 8 min ago:
What if all we need is for bloggers to post a recommended feed with
links to external posts in a separate RSS feed? The feed readers
ingest the recommendation feeds and count them. I've been following
ActivityPub and other protocols, by damn that stuff becomes a mess
quick. The absolute simplest approach is probably the right one for
now.
The fundamental problem with recommendation engines are the
platforms are forcing content on the users based on what increases
engagement (and possibly ad $) on their platform -- not what is
valuable to the user.
If I'm following a particular blogger, and their signal to noise
ratio is 9:1, if they recommend an article it would be vrey likely
I am also interested in it. If I'm following a larger group of
people, I may be interested, in aggregate, what they are interested
in. All very basic stuff that seems to have been abused and
forgotten. Other than e-mail, rss is the odd man out in 2025 which
also makes it so much more valuable.
Any third party RSS feed service could ingest these feeds and spit
out whatever other type of recommended feed they want. The could
just view a hn/reddit style feed solely with counts of the people
they want to follow along with "vote" counts and some decay
algorithm. They could have a chronological feed that just shows
everything. The users are in control again, not Meta/Facebook/IG,
Reddit, Bytedance, or etc.
kseistrup wrote 8 hours 29 min ago:
Re: NNTP
Feedbase lets you add RSS/Atom feeds so you can read them with your
favourite newsreader:
URI [1]: https://feedbase.org/
swyx wrote 10 hours 18 min ago:
> I credit the demise of Google Reader with a lot of the downfall of
the Old Web.
maybe you have causation wrong. social platforms were so effective
they caused downfall of old web, and with it the demise of Google
Reader
riddley wrote 19 hours 26 min ago:
I used [1] for a long time before giving up on RSS. At the time it
was the most similar to Google's.
URI [1]: https://www.theoldreader.com/en/
tclancy wrote 18 hours 28 min ago:
Yeah, I moved to that once Bloglines went through
enshittification/ being bought.
criddell wrote 20 hours 4 min ago:
> Facebook deprioritizes (shadowbans?) posts that link off of their
platform
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.
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?
HanClinto wrote 44 min ago:
> 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.
In this case, I made two copies of the same post on the same
platform. The only difference was whether the contents of the post
were hosted on FB or if they were hosted on a competitor's
platform.
It's not a question of medium (LinkedIn vs. Facebook). It's a
question of algorithmic prioritization within the same platform.
Facebook deprioritizes my posts when I include hyperlinks to
external websites -- I suspect especially if those sites don't run
Meta ads.
It was the same video with the same text. The only difference was a
hyperlink.
I want to support bloggers and content creators that I like (on a
variety of platforms). Facebook skewed their algorithm to
disproportionately show content hosted on their domains. I
understand why they do that (advertising $$$ and "engagement"
metrics) -- I just don't appreciate what it does to the user
experience.
> 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?
Yes -- I tried Feedly and Inoreader. Maybe I should give The Old
Reader a shot?
The feed-reading part of those clones is fine -- but again, what I
miss is the sharing and discussion that could happen so easily
within my social network with Google+ and Google Reader. The RSS
piece is almost the least important piece for me.
BriggyDwiggs42 wrote 16 hours 21 min ago:
>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.
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.
asdff wrote 21 hours 5 min ago:
I suppose you could make your own "meta" rss feed today, where you
repost interesting articles to this feed, wrapped in your comments.
pavo-etc wrote 17 hours 25 min ago:
Mastodon with build in RSS feeds, repost an article from an RSS
feed and your repost is really just new mastodon post
cosmotic wrote 21 hours 50 min ago:
Newsblur has a similar social feature
askl wrote 23 hours 26 min ago:
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:
> 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.
moontear wrote 17 hours 28 min ago:
The person who forked it ( [1] ) was very 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.
URI [1]: https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss
dugite-code wrote 17 hours 34 min ago:
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
ChrisArchitect wrote 23 hours 15 min ago:
Various discussions around here: [1]
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466224
URI [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468320
curtisblaine wrote 23 hours 33 min ago:
I would like an headless RSS feed aggregator that stores (and
categorizes?) feeds and articles in a DB and exposes a rich API.
aboardRat4 wrote 12 hours 48 min ago:
Tt-rss
fuzzzerd wrote 23 hours 16 min ago:
Miniflux is close, it has a minimal ui, but it also has a full api.
I've been using it for a few years and it's pretty great.
jurakovic wrote 23 hours 35 min ago:
Here is my "rss reader" [1] 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.
URI [1]: https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/
dingnuts wrote 23 hours 27 min ago:
I opened your page. 5 posts by Simon Willison and 8 by other authors.
A comment by Simon Willison underneath this comment as well (now the
top comment on the thread).
Simon's spam game is CRAZY. There's a million blogs out there but
over half of the posts on your reader are him. Why bother? You can't
get away from him here or on lobsters even if you want to -- why
further flood your subscriptions with his slop?
I don't understand how he has such a grip on you people. The Andrew
Tate of AI bros.
jurakovic wrote 23 hours 18 min ago:
I see, but yes and no. He is maybe the most active among them, but
for that precise reason (I have it from the beginning, not after I
stared reading his blog :)) I show only last 5 posts of each blog,
to not pollute that list. This way everyone has a chance to stay
longer on that list.
dotty- wrote 23 hours 38 min ago:
Big fan of [1] , 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.
URI [1]: https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS
kubihubi wrote 23 hours 39 min ago:
FeedFlow (all platforms and can be synced over freshRSS) [1] Would be
cool if lawnchair for android could integrate RSS as news feed..
URI [1]: https://github.com/prof18/feed-flow
kkukshtel wrote 23 hours 39 min ago:
This is a nice overview but is also obviously content marketing for
Lighthouse, which, fine.
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.
theshrike79 wrote 9 hours 41 min ago:
FreshRSS supports CSS selectors and others to get the full content.
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".
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.
eviks wrote 21 hours 8 min ago:
> 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.
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.
mnmalst wrote 22 hours 2 min ago:
Some readers can download the full article. I tried Miniflux a while
back I think that one supports it.
dewey wrote 21 hours 27 min ago:
It definitely does, I use it all the time.
Unai wrote 23 hours 14 min ago:
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.
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.
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.
spikej wrote 11 hours 57 min ago:
I use BazQux ( [1] ) as it was the closest to the old Google Reader
I could find.
The developer also set up their own instance of FiveFilters Full
Text Rss ( [2] ) 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.
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.
I prefer the Five Filters way because then I can go through my
feeds offline while in transit
URI [1]: https://bazqux.com/
URI [2]: https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/
kqr wrote 23 hours 41 min ago:
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 very nice to manage feeds on a server and have
the read/unread status sync across devices.
If you have only used device-local readers before and have a server to
spare, I recommend at least trying it!
verisimi wrote 10 hours 34 min ago:
Feeder is excellent.
acidburnNSA wrote 23 hours 13 min ago:
I have freshrss on a VPS and use the web interface as my client on
computers and my phone. Is FocusReader a big upgrade over the native
web experience?
AlfredBarnes wrote 23 hours 46 min ago:
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.
exographicskip wrote 22 hours 38 min ago:
You should post the repo/gist
netghost wrote 23 hours 46 min ago:
I'll just shill my own feed reader here: [1] It currently only runs in
Firefox but if anyone is interested, I'll Port it to Chrome since it
now supports a sidebar interface.
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.
Bonus: if you try it you'll likely increase the global usage by double
digits ;)
URI [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-read...
xeonmc wrote 8 hours 54 min ago:
Could it also be ported as a VSCode extension?
mmsc wrote 9 hours 1 min ago:
FYI, it's quite easy to support both Firefox and chrome (both mv2 and
mv3, even) in a single extension codebase.
hn-ifs wrote 11 hours 14 min ago:
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.
jrochkind1 wrote 17 hours 36 min ago:
i'm interested in a chrome port!
yakattak wrote 23 hours 47 min ago:
I really hope sites continue their RSS feeds. It seems like less and
less of them have them available or donât care to keep them updated.
6510 wrote 22 hours 44 min ago:
You can usually find a feed in google. Some people make feeds by
crawling sites.
al_borland wrote 23 hours 53 min ago:
NetNewsWire is great, and the developer is just in it for the love of
the game and the open web.
URI [1]: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/Tec...
seba_dos1 wrote 23 hours 53 min ago:
Commafeed is also hosted at commafeed.com
simonw wrote 23 hours 56 min ago:
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: [1] Crucially, it syncs
feed read state between my laptop and phone.
URI [1]: https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-...
nntwozz wrote 4 hours 25 min ago:
I started out with NNW then went to Reeder when iPhone came out.
Later on google shut down their endeavor and I became frustrated with
all the *free* alternativesâluckily I stumbled across News Explorer
which I believe was the first (or one of the first) to do iCloud
syncing so I could ditch the middleman.
I suggested iCloud sync to Brent but was first rebuffed about the
poor technical aspects and problems that it had. For those who
remember the sentiment around that time was that iCloud sync was
unreliable yet News Explorer was proof that it was working just fine.
Brent later backtracked for which I am very happy, I've been using
NNW ever since.
I only wish it had RSS filtering to weed out the shitposts, I believe
they're working on it. In the meantime I've been using Feed Rinse.
URI [1]: http://www.feedrinse.com/index-old.php
olex wrote 5 hours 57 min ago:
I use NetNewsWire as a frontend, and self-hosted FreshRSS as backend
for sync and feed management. Works a treat across multiple devices,
Mac/iOS/iPadOS and web.
theshrike79 wrote 9 hours 43 min ago:
Just discovered it a few months ago after using Reeder 3 (no need to
upgrade to 4).
Works perfectly with a self-hosted FreshRSS backend.
alsetmusic wrote 18 hours 3 min ago:
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.
divbzero wrote 22 hours 19 min ago:
+1 I use NetNewsWire as well.
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.
JLO64 wrote 22 hours 23 min ago:
> Crucially, it syncs feed read state between my laptop and phone.
This is via iCloud and only works for iPhones/Macs. Whatâs 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!
Iâve been tempted over the years to switch to other RSS apps, but
this feature is what keeps me using NetNewsWire.
dewey wrote 21 hours 28 min ago:
I use [1] and use that to sync NetNewsWire across my devices and
across RSS readers. I'm using Reeder on my iPad, Miniflux on the
web and sometimes NetNewsWire on my Mac.
URI [1]: https://miniflux.app
Robelius wrote 20 hours 13 min ago:
I used Reeder for a year, but switched to Miniflux because I
wanted an RSS reader that could be used outside of my Apple
devices. I do miss having a mobile app of my reader, since
Miniflux can sometimes be hard to navigate on a mobile device. I
never seriously considered using multiple readers until now.
Thanks for the accidental recommendation.
perardi wrote 23 hours 44 min ago:
I have used NetNewsWire since 2003.
Really.
Itâs flawless. It just works. There are no gimmicks, there is no
weird effort to gamify it into a social media play, itâs just a
user-focused news reader. And thatâs great.
citbl wrote 12 hours 43 min ago:
This is what happens when a product isn't being invested in and
tries to take over the world, inevitably resulting in its
enshittification.
reddalo wrote 23 hours 54 min ago:
+1 for NetNewsWire, truly delightful. I wish there was a Linux
version.
javchz wrote 23 hours 59 min ago:
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.
nergal wrote 1 day ago:
Another free one [1] :)
URI [1]: http://gitHub.com/lallassu/gorss
kqr wrote 1 day ago:
> Their main purpose is enabling their users to consume content
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.)
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.
username223 wrote 23 hours 56 min ago:
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.
harryvederci wrote 1 day ago:
"Everything Is Content Now" by Patrick (H) Willems:
URI [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtbFwzZp6Y
righthand wrote 1 day ago:
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 couldnât find anything that wasnât tied to a SaaS or
required hosting online.
pierrec wrote 10 hours 57 min ago:
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.
URI [1]: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
kevincox wrote 23 hours 56 min ago:
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?
righthand wrote 22 hours 55 min ago:
Requirements:
- Linux support
- doesnât make me click a link and load the video in the browser,
but plays in app
Akregator on KDE Plasma doesnât support this, but youâd think
âvideo/podcastâ 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.
asdff wrote 21 hours 2 min ago:
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.
I extended one to include opening rss subscribed reddit links in
rtv in my terminal window, for example.
semyonsh wrote 1 day ago:
If you're on iOS or MacOS I can highly recommend NetNewsWire ( [1] ).
URI [1]: https://netnewswire.com/
righthand wrote 22 hours 23 min ago:
Linux :/ sorryâ¦
username223 wrote 23 hours 49 min ago:
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.
unknown321 wrote 1 day ago:
Thunderbird handles youtube feeds just fine.
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