[HN Gopher] Show HN: I've Implemented a RSS Reader
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Show HN: I've Implemented a RSS Reader
Author : StreamSphere
Score : 54 points
Date : 2024-01-02 18:16 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| wccrawford wrote:
| No data collection and no ads and no microtransactions? I'm a
| little surprised to see that.
| StreamSphere wrote:
| Initially I coded this RSS reader for my personal use and
| decided to put it on the store so that it wouldn't be just for
| me. I find it more motivating
| sphars wrote:
| Looks great, and I like the simple, no-frills/IAPs model of this.
|
| Any chance you could integrate with RSS aggregators, like
| FreshRSS, miniflux, ttrss or any of the other self-hosted
| aggregators? I use FreshRSS and I like having my feeds synced no
| matter what device I view it on. The Android clients for
| FreshRSS[0] are a little lacking IMO or a bit out of date so it'd
| be great to see something new.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS#apis--native-apps
| StreamSphere wrote:
| To be honest, it's something I'm less familiar with and at the
| moment I've mostly given priority to something local. I'll take
| a closer look and see what the possibilities are.
| 101008 wrote:
| Hacking top comment: I remember FeedBurner was a wrapper around
| your feed that provided stats (the famous button with the
| counter was a lovely thing from the best times of internet). Is
| there something similar now?
| aaronax wrote:
| Anyone could implement this. The User-Agent of the feed
| request should include a subscriber count for each service
| that is downloading your feed to provide to its users.
| Examples: https://www.jefftk.com/p/looking-at-rss-user-agents
| PaulHoule wrote:
| See also
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)
|
| Unfortunately there don't seem to be many planets anymore. My
| YOShInOn RSS reader has a Tik-Tok like interface and trains a
| machine learning model to learn my preferences. The typical
| cycle I use it on is 2 days in which it might find 6000 feed
| items, it shows me 300, and I might skim another 100 on
| special screens that score high on certain models or that
| fill in gaps.
|
| It is subscribed to 110 feeds through SuperFeedr which costs
| about 10 cents a feed per month that's affordable at my
| scale. I'd like to be subscribed to 1500+ independent blogs
| that post once a month or once a week but I can't afford to
| do that with SuperFeedr so I think sometimes about
| retrofitting the front end but really overpolling those
| independent blogs 20-50x is for the birds.
|
| People could post their items to ActivityPub but barring that
| I really wish there were more Planets out there because it
| would be simple and cost effective to subscribe to 1 Planet
| that itself sucks in content from 50 blogs.
| kohbo wrote:
| This is exactly where I am with FreshRSS. Having it "installed"
| as a web app is OK but not quite what I want.
| smithza wrote:
| On iOS install ReadKit which can interact with a very nice
| interface to FreshRSS. I self-host FreshRSS and it works
| perfectly, syncing with the server so when I go to the
| computer, it is up-to-date with what I have opened. I do not
| know if ReadKit is on Android.
| wlesieutre wrote:
| Reeder is another nice (iOS) client with FreshRSS support
| https://www.reederapp.com/
| plutokras wrote:
| Reeder is the app I use the most. It does its job
| perfectly and nothing more. I love it.
| wlesieutre wrote:
| And iCloud sync!
| Valuables1920 wrote:
| +1 FreshRSS integration would be awesome, I agree that Android
| lacks good apps for this. I am using FreshRSS as a webapp at
| the moment which is okayish but a nice looking app would be
| much better.
| nirav72 wrote:
| I recently discovered CommaFeed and I am self-hosting it.
| It's somewhat similar to Google Reader in look and feel.
|
| https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
| sphars wrote:
| I've seen this one pop up recently as alternative to
| FreshRSS. While not as many features as FreshRSS, I like
| the direction CommaFeed is going. Have you tried FreshRSS
| and if so, how it compares?
| uneekname wrote:
| I'm getting a 404 error at this URL
| StreamSphere wrote:
| Normally this is the address :
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niviva.rss...
|
| StreamSphere - RSS Reader is the app name on the play store
| verisimi wrote:
| It looks good.. and I'm looking for a simple rss feed.
|
| But I don't think it displays all the tags - eg I know some
| entries in my subs reference a file that should be downloadable..
| but there's no reference or visibility of that.
| StreamSphere wrote:
| Thanks for the feedbacks what tags are they missing?
| verisimi wrote:
| I think it's the enclosure tag
| StreamSphere wrote:
| The parser uses enclosures for images only. If you wish you
| can give me more details so I can see why (url ...)
| verisimi wrote:
| From https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_enclosure
|
| <enclosure url="http://example.com/file.mp3"
| length="123456789" type="audio/mpeg" />
| StreamSphere wrote:
| This is normal, at the moment only images (jpg, gifs...)
| are displayed in the feed. I've yet to add the ability to
| read other formats, like mp3 here in future update
| dvh wrote:
| Adding URL is too difficult, I had to click 20x to add simple URL
| of RSS feed. It should be like this: click on hamburger menu,
| choose "add feed", paste url, done.
| StreamSphere wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback. In fact I hadn't worried about that
| because I thought that adding sources isn't something frequent
| even if it's a bit long at first and I thought that adding an
| "add source" button in the hamburger menu would be annoying
| since it wouldn't be used often.
| ssivark wrote:
| It's uncommon in "regular" usage, but has a much higher
| likelihood in the workflow of new users trying out your app
| :-)
| StreamSphere wrote:
| I understand the problem, I'll think of a solution to
| facilitate this. I didn't notice as I know my application
| too well.
| SushiHippie wrote:
| You should add "Show HN:" in front of the title, if you are the
| creator
| StreamSphere wrote:
| Done
| pauby wrote:
| Is it open-source? I'm assuming not as I don't see a repository
| URL on the Play store or here, but thought I'd ask.
| StreamSphere wrote:
| Not at the moment, but I'm hesitating. I've already started to
| Open sourced the suggested sources in the app :
| https://github.com/Martinviv/rss-sources . You can also ask me
| for design details if you want ...
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| By country, not language?
| StreamSphere wrote:
| Yes, because later on, when I have topics in languages
| other than English, I plan to allow users to have a
| language filter that will display the topics and countries
| that correspond to the selected language. But at the
| moment, as I only have topics in English and news sources
| by country, I've kept this structure
| jp57 wrote:
| Thoughts on pros and cons vs NetNewsWire?
| latexr wrote:
| NetNewsWire is exclusive for iOS and macOS. This app is
| exclusive to Android. They don't overlap.
| matznerd wrote:
| Is anyone out there looking for an RSS style feed of their email?
| In a sort of non-disruptive scrolling mechanism... possibly with
| AI summary of the emails. This would not replace your inbox, but
| allow you you to not have to go into your inbox until you want
| to, but to be able to stay up to date with what is going on in
| your email...?
| reddalo wrote:
| Hey.com has a similar function called "The Feed", but it's a
| paid email service.
| grigio wrote:
| I prefere a selfhosted webapp like YARR
| gumby wrote:
| Which clients still have filters? I use ReadKit but the upgraded
| version to modern Mac frameworks isn't yet as good as version 2
| (which is no longer signed, unfortunately).
|
| I don't blame the author in the slightest for the upgrade --
| really, a rewrite it seems -- which has some enhancements over
| v2, but it takes a while for something like that to reach parity
| with the previous version.
| graypegg wrote:
| I would love to see some different concepts for RSS reader UI.
| The left pane with a big list of feeds, and a vertical list of
| articles does work but I think there's room to expand there.
|
| A more passive newspaper-grid layout would be cool. Selectively
| chosen headlines and images, tap to see full article. Each
| personal "newspaper page" is static, it won't change after it's
| been viewed, only new posts added to the bottom. Then you could
| scroll back thru pages per-day.
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