[HN Gopher] The RSS feed reader landscape
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The RSS feed reader landscape
Author : domysee
Score : 150 points
Date : 2025-10-08 15:17 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| righthand wrote:
| 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.
| unknown321 wrote:
| Thunderbird handles youtube feeds just fine.
| semyonsh wrote:
| If you're on iOS or MacOS I can highly recommend NetNewsWire
| (https://netnewswire.com/).
| username223 wrote:
| 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.
| righthand wrote:
| Linux :/ sorry...
| kevincox wrote:
| 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:
| Requirements:
|
| - Linux support
|
| - doesn't make me click a link and load the video in the
| browser, but plays in app
|
| 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.
| asdff wrote:
| 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.
| kqr wrote:
| > 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.
| harryvederci wrote:
| "Everything Is Content Now" by Patrick (H) Willems:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtbFwzZp6Y
| username223 wrote:
| 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.
| nergal wrote:
| Another free one http://gitHub.com/lallassu/gorss :)
| javchz wrote:
| 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.
| simonw wrote:
| 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:
| https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-we...
|
| Crucially, it syncs feed read state between my laptop and phone.
| reddalo wrote:
| +1 for NetNewsWire, truly delightful. I wish there was a Linux
| version.
| perardi wrote:
| I have used NetNewsWire since 2003.
|
| Really.
|
| 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.
| JLO64 wrote:
| > Crucially, it syncs feed read state between my laptop and
| phone.
|
| 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!
|
| I've been tempted over the years to switch to other RSS apps,
| but this feature is what keeps me using NetNewsWire.
| dewey wrote:
| I use https://miniflux.app 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.
| Robelius wrote:
| 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.
| divbzero wrote:
| +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.
| alsetmusic wrote:
| 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.
| seba_dos1 wrote:
| Commafeed is also hosted at commafeed.com
| al_borland wrote:
| NetNewsWire is great, and the developer is just in it for the
| love of the game and the open web.
|
| https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/T...
| yakattak wrote:
| 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.
| 6510 wrote:
| You can usually find a feed in google. Some people make feeds
| by crawling sites.
| netghost wrote:
| I'll just shill my own feed reader here:
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...
|
| 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 ;)
| jrochkind1 wrote:
| i'm interested in a chrome port!
| AlfredBarnes wrote:
| 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:
| You should post the repo/gist
| kqr wrote:
| 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!
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| 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?
| kkukshtel wrote:
| 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.
| Unai wrote:
| 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.
| mnmalst wrote:
| Some readers can download the full article. I tried Miniflux a
| while back I think that one supports it.
| dewey wrote:
| It definitely does, I use it all the time.
| eviks wrote:
| > 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.
| kubihubi wrote:
| FeedFlow (all platforms and can be synced over freshRSS)
| https://github.com/prof18/feed-flow
|
| Would be cool if lawnchair for android could integrate RSS as
| news feed..
| dotty- wrote:
| Big fan of https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS, 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.
| jurakovic wrote:
| Here is my "rss reader" https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-
| links/news/
|
| 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.
| dingnuts wrote:
| 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:
| 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.
| curtisblaine wrote:
| I would like an headless RSS feed aggregator that stores (and
| categorizes?) feeds and articles in a DB and exposes a rich API.
| fuzzzerd wrote:
| 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.
| askl wrote:
| 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.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Various discussions around here:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466224
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468320
| dugite-code wrote:
| 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
| moontear wrote:
| The person who forked it (https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss) 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.
| HanClinto wrote:
| 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.
| cosmotic wrote:
| Newsblur has a similar social feature
| asdff wrote:
| 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:
| Mastodon with build in RSS feeds, repost an article from an
| RSS feed and your repost is really just new mastodon post
| criddell wrote:
| > 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?
| riddley wrote:
| I used https://www.theoldreader.com/en/ for a long time before
| giving up on RSS. At the time it was the most similar to
| Google's.
| tclancy wrote:
| Yeah, I moved to that once Bloglines went through
| enshittification/ being bought.
| AndyMcConachie wrote:
| 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.
| jklinger410 wrote:
| 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?
| kstrauser wrote:
| 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.
| mikece wrote:
| I don't know if it's permanently dead or not but I really like
| QuiteRSS:
|
| https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss
|
| 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:
|
| https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss/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.
| ajot wrote:
| 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
| https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/1707#issueco...
| dinkblam wrote:
| > A deep dive
|
| can't we just call things "A thorough examination / analysis"
| anymore?
| danhon wrote:
| It's content marketing.
| galleywest200 wrote:
| 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.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/news-explorer/id1032668306
| renegat0x0 wrote:
| Some links
|
| https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS
|
| https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds
|
| My problem with most RSS do not have great search. With 500+
| sources this can become problem.
|
| https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - my own project
| davidcox143 wrote:
| 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.
|
| [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-recipe-
| manager/id15484660...
| codingclaws wrote:
| I built an RSS reader in 2005. I never figured out how to 100%
| reliably detect already downloaded articles.
| npilk wrote:
| 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.
| jasonthorsness wrote:
| 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] https://www.jasonthorsness.com at
| https://www.jasonthorsness.com/rss.xml
| righthand wrote:
| RSS specifically or does the Atom standard also fail?
| asa400 wrote:
| If you're looking for an on-device terminal feed reader, here's
| mine: https://github.com/ckampfe/russ
|
| Some folks seem to like it.
| dpcx wrote:
| Unless I misunderstand, it also misses that Newsblur is open
| source and can be self hosted
| https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
| davidcbc wrote:
| 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.
| netule wrote:
| TIL everyone on HN has built an RSS reader.
| freetonik wrote:
| 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: https://minifeed.net
|
| Due to the nature of the medium, the majority of blogs in the
| directory and technical.
| aalukabi wrote:
| 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.
| grigio wrote:
| yarr is a fantastic selfhosted reader
| bityard wrote:
| 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.
| contradictioned wrote:
| I'll add https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer 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.
| swanson wrote:
| it made my day to see this comment, i was the original creator,
| awesome to see people still using it!
| em-bee wrote:
| no mention of rss via email?
|
| https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
| https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/
|
| 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.
| mike-cardwell wrote:
| 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.
| CrociDB wrote:
| 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: https://github.com/CrociDB/bulletty
| notachatbot123 wrote:
| 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:
| 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.
| zoidb wrote:
| Here is a terminal based reader that I recently created as an
| alternative to newsboat https://github.com/jarv/newsgoat
|
| It has some features that I felt was missing from the terminal
| based readers out there already.
| ebbi wrote:
| This just reminded me of Teletext!
| AlienRobot wrote:
| Try this too https://fraidyc.at/
| hysan wrote:
| 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.
| jonpurdy wrote:
| Going to shill for Feedbin (https://feedbin.com). 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 - https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api
|
| 2 - https://github.com/jonpurdy/mosaicbin
| sjs382 wrote:
| 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.
| donatj wrote:
| 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.
| __aru wrote:
| 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.
| thefz wrote:
| No tt-rss? Weird.
| sunaookami wrote:
| tt-rss was discontinued a few days ago: https://community.tt-
| rss.org/t/the-end-of-tt-rss-org/7164
| dugite-code wrote:
| The domain now points to a GitHub project. It'll be
| interesting if enough Devs pick up the work
| prism56 wrote:
| FreshRSS is so good. Using it for webscraping and syncing with my
| android app.
| yomismoaqui wrote:
| 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.
| AndrewDucker wrote:
| 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
| FergusArgyll wrote:
| 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...
| flkiwi wrote:
| 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.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| 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.
|
| 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 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.
|
| 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_ people's RSS feeds too fast. Maybe you're better off if
| they block you.
| Martin_Silenus wrote:
| 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.
| wpollock wrote:
| Happy user of Flym, a free Android reader:
|
| https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
| qudat wrote:
| What's missing are the email digest services. I built a simple
| little service that sends rss digests to my email:
| https://pico.sh/feeds
|
| Check it out
| browningstreet wrote:
| 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.
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