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Anyone know if there is a Docker container for this app? I've found Docker to be a great tool for trying server apps out without littering my system with extra installations.

nacs• 10 years ago

The executable is just a single .jar file so not sure Docker would be very useful here.

mike--4• 10 years ago

you are welcome!

Yes, in the future I plan to put it in the docker, but at the current moment you can use it, because this only one jar + sqliter db.

wanda• 10 years ago

I recommend: https://www.goread.io/

Very similar; made with Go.

kasbah• 10 years ago

I have been using goread.io pretty much since it launched. There is a really annoying bug though that affects me every time I read my feeds. All my posts get marked as read at once when I resize the window in a certain way.

I had a go at fixing it myself but it seems I couldn't (my PR did get merged but the problem persists) and no one else seems to be trying to fix it so I am thinking of finding an alternative.

The truerss demo doesn't seem to work at all for me though. The page shows up but when I click on a post it doesn't show anything.

gkya• 10 years ago

I use Elfeed on Emacs, which is just beautiful. It also provides a web interface, but I didn't use it yet.

webwanderings• 10 years ago

Digg Reader has been amazingly doing its job well. Have tried all kinds of RSS reader since the great demise of GR. Am very satisfied with Digg, irrespective of its past notoriety.

akkartik2• 10 years ago

Thanks for the tip! I'm trying it out now.

frankacter• 10 years ago

Another enthusiastic vote for Digg Reader.

akkartik2• 10 years ago

I guess I'm back in the market for a feedreader because #$%# Firefox keeps breaking[1][2] my (awesome) feedreader extension[3]. First they moved me off regular Firefox to Nightly because my (entirely private, self-developed) extension is unsigned. Now it's stopped working even on Nightly. And part of me is like why bother fixing it because they're just going to move the goalposts again like they did going from XUL to Jetpack to cfx to jpm... Already I hear they're moving to something called WebExtensions, which of course won't work for all possible situations so we might still have to stick with the old SDK, but the old SDK is deprecated... I get tired just thinking about it.

Ack, how did this turn into a rant? Tl;dr - I get cranky when I haven't been able to get to my feeds for a few days.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196537

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256212

[3] http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN

reitanqild• 10 years ago

Mozilla being busy about taking away the rest of the reasons why we have used FF. :-/

It was never about privacy in my case, it was about a better browser for work, reading and research.

dvh• 10 years ago

Real men write their own rss readers!

saturn_vk• 10 years ago

That's what I did some time ago:

https://github.com/urandom/readeef

mike--4• 10 years ago

yep :)

dsr_• 10 years ago

The web-UI looks nice from a static shot, but I don't see anything interesting enough to make me switch over from Tiny Tiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home) which has been working very well for years now.

amerkhalid• 10 years ago

I tried many RSS readers after Google Reader, but eventually settled on self-hosted JS Reader based on http://www.jdev.it/a-very-simple-rss-reader-with-angularjs-a...

It doesn't keep track of what posts you have read and there is no privacy if someone finds your url for the reader, but it is portable and doesn't require anything but a browser.

davefp• 10 years ago

Obligatory plug for Stringer, my personal reader of choice: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

Chirael• 10 years ago

I've had a good experience with Commafeed https://www.commafeed.com/

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