Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108413

by sbolt • 4 years ago

73 157 4 years ago

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With two posts on the front page on the revival of RSS I'm wondering what RRS Reader I should use.

I use River5 (https://github.com/scripting/river5), and pipe the output to a web app (https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/).

jibbers• 4 years ago

NetNewsWire on macOS and iOS.

It's just so incredibly polished and fast. Plus, it's open source!

https://netnewswire.com

jshwlkr• 4 years ago

https://www.inoreader.com/

j_crick• 4 years ago

Been using it for the last two years and it’s been great so far. Not sure if sub price would be justified for other people but for me the cheapest paid tier covers basically everything I need from a reader.

nickthegreek• 4 years ago

I pay for Inoreader as it most closely matches the Google Reader social experience for me. You can follow other users, share articles to your feed for other users to discover and comment back and forth. I always said I would have paid Google to keep Reader going, so I put my money where my mouth was with Inoreader. I do find it’s search capabilities somewhat lacking tho. Mobile app is decent, desktop website is great.

mdoar• 4 years ago

Yes for inoreader. Not free, but works well for me

gandalfgreybeer• 4 years ago

There's a free tier with ads which I don't mind since they're non-intrusive (I honestly can't tell when the last time I noticed an ad was, and I use it daily).

stranded22• 4 years ago

I’ve been using Inoreader pro for 3+ years now. Much better than freely imho. And helps me get headlines quickly

MollyRealized• 4 years ago

I use Inoreader as well.

They run annual Black Friday specials that end up giving you 18 months for the cost of 12.

They have advanced filtering and rules.

They have some social features I don't use but that approximate what Google Reader was mourned for.

I really rather wholeheartedly recommend them.

The only negative thing I could say about them is that they seem rather close-minded in a rather non-P.R.-friendly way to feature requests, and don't seem very interested in improving the product in ways their customers request, although they do, however, still (slowly) improve the product. It's not in stasis as many other products sometimes tend to be (cough Remember the Milk cough cough)

That having been said, to me, the product feels rather rock solid as it is in its existing functionality, and to me, it feels like a solid power tool.

dave333• 4 years ago

I went from Google Reader to Digg Reader to Inoreader free to Inoreader paid. Has been pretty solid I have only found one bug - sometimes it doesn't show you the same article you clicked on. Tried to report that but they wanted me to go to lengths to convince them it was not my browser environment - uninstall all extensions etc. Otherwise very happy with it.

trickjarrett• 4 years ago

Selfhosted FreshRSS for me

hjuutilainen• 4 years ago

If you are on Apple ecosystem, NetNewsWire is free, reliable and syncs between devices. You don’t need a paid third party service to use it.

https://netnewswire.com/

cyberge99• 4 years ago

Newsify is also good for a simple, visual block news scroll. It pulls images from the source site, so it’s like browsing with a polished news app.

oxymoron• 4 years ago

I’ve been using self-hosted TTRSS since Google Reader shut down.

Krisjohn• 4 years ago

Me too. I've been using the Bitnami builds. VM for ages, but currently the Windows app.

MrUssek• 4 years ago

I use Feedly, not sure why it's not more frequently recommended.

https://feedly.com/

CharlesW2• 4 years ago

Feedly's great. A huge plus is that most mobile reader apps seem to be able to sync with it.

tholman• 4 years ago

Have been on the feedly train ever since google axed reader, was able to transfer all feeds via import ++ will help you get some kinda feed (can break with big site redesigns but has been pretty solid) from sites without RSS. Haven't needed to shop around at all since 2013.

pentium10• 4 years ago

Feedly is fenomenal, its my 2nd most used app after email. I really love the advanced features of mute filters, web alerts and Leo - Feedly's AI Engine.

pintxo• 4 years ago

Unfortunately the iOS App has major problems for some users, see the app reviews. I like it, but as of now it's barely usable.

atsjie• 4 years ago

It has a 4.6 rating which is good, especially if I can't recall ever being bothered by those automated rating popups.

I use it everyday and works fine, "some" might be a small but vocal group? Might not be representative for a common user.

sebazzz• 4 years ago

I haven’t had any major issues, but on the iPad the navigation is sometimes in limbo. I believe this is caused by using the keyboard/touchpad instead of touch.

calciphus• 4 years ago

I don't know about ios, but on Android there's a program called "Palabre" that lets you log into feedly. I like the interface, precache + readability features much more.

antonpirker• 4 years ago

I also use feedly and love it. It is basically my startpage to the web. It also replaces all social media news feeds for me.

arunc• 4 years ago

59 MB Android app. No, thanks.

jasonboyd• 4 years ago

I use Feedly Classic which is clocking in at around 37 MB. But I am looking at the other apps on my phone and the majority of them (maybe 90% roughly estimating) are well over 59 MB. Chrome, for example, is almost half a gig. What device are you using that 59 MB is an issue and are you also eschewing all the other apps that are that big or larger?

carpdiem• 4 years ago

One more vote for feedly from me! One of the few online subscriptions I don't mind at all paying for. I especially like the ability to auto-generate email addresses for newsletters to "turn them into" RSS feeds within feedly.

kevincox• 4 years ago

I use my own RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/. I've written about my setup and why I prefer RSS-to-Email on my blog nearly a decade ago https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/.

I used to use https://blogtrottr.com which I do still think is a good product, they just didn't quite fit my needs so after about 8 years I ended up creating my own.

aag• 4 years ago

I have used Blogtrottr since Google Reader went away, and I love it. It's great not having to check yet another app for updates, and all the filtering and labeling tools of modern email clients can be used.

vpol• 4 years ago

Reeder for iOS/macOS

docdeek• 4 years ago

I'm also a fan. Been using it since v3 (it's v5 now) and it's great. Sync via iCloud on all devices, great piece of software.

curiousfab• 4 years ago

rss2email + mutt

lothar_m• 4 years ago

Exactly the same setup on my machines. Works fine and can be integrated with any other sync programs as needed. A flexible and robust approach to RSS. Newsboat is also a great option, for those who prefer a dedicated RSS app.

blakesterz• 4 years ago

I've been on NewsBlur since Google Reader was put down. I'm still happy with it. Both the web and phone version are nice, and it rarely has issues.

https://www.newsblur.com/

bilal4hmed• 4 years ago

Another one for Newsblur, since day 1

alexott• 4 years ago

Same for me - sometimes UI changes aren’t good, but usually they were addressed

Eddy_Viscosity2• 4 years ago

Exactly me, from google reader to newsblur.

quaintdev2• 4 years ago

If anyone is looking for some self hosted RSS reader I have covered them in blog post, check it out https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/rss-readers-that-you-can-self-host...

eddiequinn• 4 years ago

As it happens I was going to set up a homelab in the new year, and an RSS reader was one of the things I wanted to host. Thank you!

greenyoda• 4 years ago

Yet another paying NewsBlur subscriber, from the earliest days. I use them to subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds.

I've been increasingly using their search feature, which allows you to search for text across a "folder" (group of subscriptions) or across all your subscriptions.

Another nice feature: If you enter just the home URL for a web site when creating a new subscription, it'll automatically search commonly used URLs (/feed, /rss, etc.) to find their RSS feed for you.

anotherevan• 4 years ago

Same here. Very happy with it.

52-hertz_whale• 4 years ago

csw-001• 4 years ago

Switched to NewsBlur when google reader was shut down… It’s so much better than I could have imagined GReader ever becoming. Used it daily for years!

ctbeiser• 4 years ago

Feedbin for sync and for email ingest. A key fact about this is that unlike Feedly and Newsblur, it keeps old content indefinitely. That means that if I don't check feeds for a while, or something is too heavy to read one month, I don't lose it forever.

iOS: Unread, which is just supremely beautiful. I'm amazed that the "double tap to mark read/unread" interaction isn't standard.

Mac: Reeder, which is nice and flexible though not perfect.

mesbahamin3• 4 years ago

Miniflux. I'm incredibly happy with how simple and usable it is. I mostly use it as a PWA on my phone.

https://miniflux.app/

number6• 4 years ago

I also use miniflux but not as pwa. What changes if you use it as a pwa?

mesbahamin3• 4 years ago

Not much. It just has its own button on the home screen (iOS) and behaves (mostly) like a native app. A browser bookmark would work as well.

Miniflux is designed to work well on a small screen with touch input. So the fact that, unlike some other options, it doesn't have a native app is not too much of a limitation.

rlue• 4 years ago

I really like miniflux, but I really wish it had a weighted post ordering rather than a simple chronological ordering. I posted a feature request about this earlier this year[0], but the gist is this:

If you subscribe to some feeds that post 100+ times a day (like a major news outlet) and others that post only once every couple months or so (like many personal blogs), you'll never catch the latter because those posts are always drowned in a sea of the former. Reddit deals with this problem by weighting posts from each subreddit you subscribe to so that your frontpage contains content from as many of your subs as possible.

All I want for Christmas is for this idea to get some traction. Hoping to make the time to hack on this myself Q1 of next year.

[0] https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/1493

mesbahamin3• 4 years ago

I've had a few feature ideas too. I'm currently paying for the hosted instance of Miniflux, but it's nice to know that self-hosting a personal fork with the exact feature set I want is incredibly easy: small code base, single executable, minimal dependencies.

gen2203• 4 years ago

It's a tricky idea to implement in a way that doesn't violate the "principle of least surprise".

Personally, I "solve" this problem with existing settings by excluding NPR/NYT/New Yorker from my global unread feed. They belong to a category (/news) that I can choose to visit if I want to. I find myself not visiting it that often, personally.

That being said, I have thought of implementing something like this. Maybe something that "aggregates" posts into 24 hour buckets, so they'll still show up in your global feed, but won't occupy 80% of the screen space any more.

Curious to hear your thoughts on these ideas.

CharlesW2• 4 years ago

Feedly on the web, and Reeder or NetNewsWire on mobile. I keep meaning to try Unread as well.

Both of the mobile options integrate with Feedly for sync'd read/unread status, etc.

erenkaplan• 4 years ago

I use netnewswire because I'm in the Apple ecosystem.

https://netnewswire.com/

jonwinstanley• 4 years ago

Net News Wire is awesome, both iPhone and Mac apps are really nicely done.

ajdude• 4 years ago

Also using NetNewsWire, combined with Feedbin. It works flawlessly across all of my Apple devices, macOS and iOS.

vanilla_nut2• 4 years ago

Beautiful native apps.

Works great with self-hosted FreshRSS.

Possibly my favorite software release of 2022!

roydivision2• 4 years ago

I seem to be the only person who doesn’t like NetNewsWire. The fact that you still can’t configure global settings that cover all feeds makes it useless for me.

janandonly• 4 years ago

Not useless, but less usefull.

rado• 4 years ago

Same here. It’s great, one of the best apps of any kind.

stmpjmpr• 4 years ago

Also a happy NNW user. I'd been using Feedbin, which is also good, but since I'm a Mac and iOS user, I switched to using NNW with iCloud syncing, which has been working great. It's so nice to have fully-native apps!

hprotagonist• 4 years ago

Feedly; i'm lazy and that was where i landed after google reader went pow

justinvoss• 4 years ago

I've been using Feedbin for a few years and have been happy with it, especially since it syncs with my preferred iOS client, Reeder.

https://feedbin.com

https://www.reederapp.com

nordsieck• 4 years ago

Newsboat[1].

Having everything happen locally on my own machine is great - I never want to be in the position of losing Google Reader again. And the option to do non-interactive refresh makes is almost as nice for high volume feeds.

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1. https://newsboat.org/

safety1st• 4 years ago

Not technically for reading, but for downloading podcasts via their RSS feeds I use castero and am very happy with it. https://github.com/xgi/castero

flandish• 4 years ago

I use “Reeder” - http://reederapp.com

I connect/subscribe it to various things - one of which is a previously curated FreshRSS instance, running in a docker container. So reeder connects and updates read/new feed additions too.

rcarmo• 4 years ago

Same here. Reeder across all my Apple gear. I haven’t found anything anywhere as nice for Fedora or Windows.

200+ feeds, using it since 1.0.

roydivision2• 4 years ago

Reeder for iOS with a Feedbin subscription. This combination has worked perfectly for years.

D13Fd• 4 years ago

I used to use Reeder/Feedbin but I moved to NetNewsWire/Feedbin when they started updating NNW again. I like NNW a bit better.

sqwrell• 4 years ago

feedbro browser extension is pretty powerful

quaintdev2• 4 years ago

I've been using FreshRSS [0] for a while now as my RSS reader, it's open source and can be self-hosted. It's been reliable and easy to use.

0: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

vanilla_nut2• 4 years ago

I use NetNewsWire these days, but for anyone who wants to dabble in RSS with minimal investment, I highly recommend FeedBro, a well-executed Firefox add-on.

It has a highly customizable UI.

It handles all the fetching/refreshes/storage right in your browser, no need to install anything else or self-host a backend.

And you can import/export OPML feed collections, so you can easily switch to another solution when you outgrow it.

The only downside I've found: it doesn't sync between machines (at least, not for free). That's totally fine when you're just trying out RSS for the first time, but it does get annoying if you eventually want to read on, say, a phone, tablet, and laptop in different situations. For that use case, NNW + FreshRSS is my current, excellent solution.

daydream• 4 years ago

NetNewsWire can sync between multiple devices using iCloud, no third party service needed. It works very well for me.

mzur• 4 years ago

I just use good old Thunderbird.

ranger2072• 4 years ago

So do I, since I'm subscribed to a lot of email newsletters and it's nice to have them all together, but the lack of sync between devices is annoying

Moustache64713• 4 years ago

Can you recommend me any newsletters?

Thanks in advance.

buster• 4 years ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedr

wavesounds• 4 years ago

Whats with all of these RSS stories suddenly on the front page today? Feels like exactly what PG was talking about in The Submarine[1] but who would be behind pushing RSS feeds all of a sudden? Is there a Big RSS lobby I don't know about?

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

kgwxd3• 4 years ago

I think it's stemming from the Twitter migration trend. Lots of people moving to Mastodon are talking about their personal blogs or thinking about starting one up again. Zeitgeist is thinking about taking back content ownership and creating tighter communities. I'm diggin' it.

OscarCunningham• 4 years ago

I've been using the Feedbro browser extension for Firefox since I ran out of room on Feedly.

musictubes• 4 years ago

RSS reader? Unread on iOS/iPadOS and Newsblur on the web. I use Newsblur as my aggregator.

LunarAurora• 4 years ago

Fraidycat [1] (+ Feedly)

[1] https://fraidyc.at/

kilroy123• 4 years ago

Same here but I really wish I could use it on my phone.

ohCh6zos• 4 years ago

I use Freshrss as my backend and Reader as my frontend.

rambambram• 4 years ago

I use the built-in RSS reader from HeyHomepage.com (disclaimer: I built that).

RistrettoMike• 4 years ago

I pay for Bazqux reader because I’d like for it to stick around as a small business with a vested interest in serving my feeds and not pivoting to newsletters or algorithmic news or whatever:

https://bazqux.com/

That gets read from the Reeder app on iOS or on the web on Windows. Longer pieces get saved to Instapaper for Kindle-reading and archived on pinboard.

spiffytech• 4 years ago

I'm a happy Bazqux user, too.

It's a simple, no-frills experience that reminds me of what I liked about Google Reader.

I use their PWA on mobile, which works really well.

breput• 4 years ago

Drop Feeds[0] - a Firefox browser extension[1] that continues in style of the original Sage (and Sage++) extensions. You can configure it to only show unread feeds and automatically poll for changes, so you always have the latest updates right there in your browser sidebar without having to go to a different application or site.

[0] https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/

jtthe13• 4 years ago

Subscribed back in the day to a lifetime deal for Feedly, which is very good at filtering out themes/keywords I'm not interested in. On the app side, I haven't found anything more enjoyable than Reeder (mac and iOS). Keyboard shortcuts are great too.

wtf77• 4 years ago

selfhosted FreshRSS + NetNewsWire

mike503• 4 years ago

+1 for Reeder (iPhone only) using Feedly for free as the backend (RIP Google Reader)

I only do RSS browsing on my phone, triage what I'm interested in to emails sent to myself or send to pinboard for archiving/maybe visit later (although probably moving away from PB soon)

tbolt• 4 years ago

Feedbin + Reeder

Also hi sbolt

devinegan• 4 years ago

Self-hosted tiny tiny rss via browser or iOS client tiny Reader. I use filters aggressively to remove topic saturation. Highly recommend.

rupi• 4 years ago

Readwise Reader for a week and so far I am really liking it.

Before that, I used Feedly and Google Reader before that.

juancn• 4 years ago

I use Reeder but as a client for Feedly.

knowsuchagency• 4 years ago

Readwise Reader looks promising https://readwise.io/read

simonmic• 4 years ago

https://bazqux.com ! I use it daily for years, can highly recommend.

shashurup• 4 years ago

My own, feedcircuit.kibardin.name

MongoTheMad• 4 years ago

I host yarr in my home K8s with GitHub oauth for security. Then I just access via browser.

https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

lf-non• 4 years ago

Yarr: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr.git

Super neat and minimal web based rss reader. It also needs minimal resources and virtually no maintenance.

europeanguy• 4 years ago

I use newsboat. Comes with debian. It's the lightest RSS reader I've ever used.

ibobev• 4 years ago

I'm using https://theoldreader.com/. It is very similar to the discontinued Google Reader.

lostinthecode• 4 years ago

Completely agree. I love theoldreader.com, and it's compatible with apps like Reeder. I used to host tt-rss, but I don't want to continually patch and update anymore.

bitsoda• 4 years ago

Same here. Does what I need it to do, but I've noticed that it only syncs one-way with NetNewsWire (pulls feeds in, but won't update read status), unfortunately. It's still good enough for my needs as I'm not subbed to that many feeds.

georgeoliver• 4 years ago

Feedly with the Feedly Android app, which syncs unread items with the desktop web app (so unread == not visited). I don't read anything in Feedly itself -- makes me wonder if there are RSS apps focused just on aggregation.

kkfx• 4 years ago

ttRSS, because RSS2Email is next to useless in the modern crappy feed usage where full articles are NOT on the feed... While as a concept it's very nice since I use notmuch, so I can manage mails and especially search&tag them very well.

I've used elfeed, it demand too much time to skim many posts, similar to Miniflux who is quicker but still demand too much time. ttRSS allow to scroll marking read, that's enough for me. Feeds nowadays simply have much value as a tool, but too little values per mean post.

Gnus with scoring is nice, but again too slow to skim, even with scoring help.

deafpolygon• 4 years ago

I use newsboat, and feedly on the web. I don't use it on mobile.

MattDemers• 4 years ago

I've been using a TinyTinyRSS instance on Docker. I've also been playing with FreshRSS but there's some things that I don't like as much.

John_R_S• 4 years ago

Outlook

CoBE10• 4 years ago

Sfeed: https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html

It's better and more customizable than Newsboat, plus there is an option to transfer everything from the Newsboat to it. It is not really a reader but a parser, but that's what makes it great.

zzyzxd• 4 years ago

Not sure if it's just me, but I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years. Instead, I only use a RSS reader software to quickly go through all the unread items and send interesting articles to a read-later or bookmark service. The main reasons are:

- Some feeds only provide title/summary and not the full text article (yes, I know there are full-text extraction service, but last time I tried them, none of them was perfect, and I don't want to play the guessing game -- "Am I reading the full article, or a broken extraction?")

- Some feeds are just better to be read in a web browser. e.g.: Project release notes on GitHub, which usually come with links to PRs, commits...etc, so I need to open several browser tabs to consume the content anyways.

- Some personal blog sites have very beautiful (or interesting) designs that I find myself actually enjoys poking around.

- Ad-blocking -- given the current popularity of RSS, I don't know if it really makes sense financially for websites to do so, but I notice some feeds do inject ads.

- If I ever need to click a link in an article, jumping from a reader software to a browser is too big of a context switch that disrupts my flow -- just let me go through all the feeds right now, and I will decide how to prioritize the most interesting ones and allocate my reading time later.

For my use cases, Unread on iOS gave me the best experience. All the gestures optimized for single-hand operations are just fantastic. Sadly, they switched from one-time payment to monthly subscription and I can't justify the cost when I only use it in a very light way(just for sorting items). Reeder is not as good, but is comfortable enough for me.

kgwxd3• 4 years ago

I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years

Same here but I think we were mostly forced into it. Site owners care more about getting you on their site than the quality of the content. There's no incentive to include a bare bones version for RSS so, if they even have an RSS feed, it's just links. Aggregate sites can't even include the content. Also, there's just too much multimedia content these days, a proper browser will always be more reliable for viewing it. I really don't mind it. I just love not having to re-scan over headlines I've already seen or intentionally skipped over.

Moustache64713• 4 years ago

Same here. Currently I don't read my feeds in the RSS reader, but I mark what interests me and send it to Pocket to read later in this application or directly on the original website.

arcatech• 4 years ago

I happen to be using my own. I wrote my website from scratch in Go and decided to build a RSS reader into it. Anyone can view the list of articles I’m reading at https://dwayne.xyz/reader

animesh2• 4 years ago

Had a similar idea as one of the features for my static generator. Really glad to see it in action.

kgwxd3• 4 years ago

QuiteRSS on Windows. I was using newsbeuter/newsboat when I was on Linux and I really liked it. My wants from a reader are very basic though, I'm really only interested in getting the title and links, I don't care if it even has a content viewer beyond text-only.

timbit423• 4 years ago

QuiteRSS also runs on Linux.

fitblipper• 4 years ago

Tiny tiny rss on docker desktop with tailscale so I can access it anywhere.

dang• 4 years ago

Related ongoing threads:

This is the year of the RSS reader - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572

It's time for an RSS revival (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105558

jkmcf• 4 years ago

I’m using Reeder with Feedly. Reeder makes processing a lot of feeds pretty easy.

I keep hoping Feedly will help separate the wheat from the chaff in my feeds with their ML work, but it seems to require me doing more than clicking on what to read to identify my likes and dislikes.

I’ve played with Matter and Readwise Reader, and so far I’m not impressed. I like Readwise in theory, but the RSS reading UI is a bit slow though I might need to tweak the settings to make it quicker.

notmuchserious• 4 years ago

i use hacker news

leethargo• 4 years ago

rawdog (RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur) [1].

It's a simple script that I manually trigger once a day to check my list of feeds from a config file. It caches the known posts and generates static HTML with summaries of the new posts for me to browse locally.

[1] http://offog.org/code/rawdog/

BerislavLopac• 4 years ago

Netvibes, I've been using it continuously since at least 2008: https://www.netvibes.com

saturn_vk• 4 years ago

I self host https://github.com/urandom/readeef which I wrote some time after the demise of google reader

liamjbennett• 4 years ago

I was a Feedly user since 2013 but have since moved to Readwise Reader

https://readwise.io/read

Also recently did I little write up of my workflow: https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2022-12-23-workflow-2023/

blbuford• 4 years ago

Out of curiosity, what are your “daily check in” podcasts?

the_third_wave• 4 years ago

The Nextcloud News app, I started using it when it was still the Owncloud news app many years ago. Initially I used it in combination with the related Own/Newscloud News app for Android but just use the web interface now since this is always up to date and does not need any synchronisation.

lcall• 4 years ago

On Android, Handy News Reader from the f-droid.org app store works well, once I went through all the settings and customized it, and got used to it. Except now it doesn't auto-fetch (it used to) and I don't know if I did something wrong, but manually fetching new stories isn't bad.

It is a local reader -- no account required, no server storage, but stores everything on the phone.

I've also used NewsBlur which I would probably like more if I paid. One thing about Handy News Reader is there is a way to see the URLs of existing feeds, which I have not found how to do in NewsBlur.

A previous discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424

I haven't tried any of the others in comments here, so can't make comparisons; that might be interesting.

wink• 4 years ago

As of a few months ago, self-hosted FreshRSS + FeedMe on Android.

ryangibb• 4 years ago

Feeder: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/

One of the surprisingly few readers I could find that is local-only and doesn't require an account.

I self host a lot of services but don't see the need for an RSS reader server-side.

nephanth• 4 years ago

Feeder's great, I personally dont need anything more complicated

d3vr• 4 years ago

Self-hosted instance of FreshRSS [0], Readrops [1] as the client on Android, html2rss [2] for websites that don't have RSS feeds and AtoMail [3] to get newsletters as RSS feeds instead.

Edit: forgot to mention RssBridge [4] to get tweets that match certain criteria as an RSS feed. RssBridge also provides access to many other platforms.

[0] https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

[1] https://github.com/readrops/Readrops

[2] https://github.com/html2rss/html2rss-web

[3] https://github.com/remko/atomail

[4] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

lexoj• 4 years ago

Initially I used Mailbrew, but for the last 5 months I've been happily using my own open-source tool through Obsidian: https://github.com/piqoni/matcha

It is a daily digest and supports also terminal mode.

d4a• 4 years ago

FreshRSS for sync and on my computer, with NetNewsWire on my phone

josephd79• 4 years ago

I use Otter RSS. Simple, minimal rss reader.

bradbarrish• 4 years ago

Been using Feedbin with Reeder pretty much since Google Reader shut down. I’ve tried a bunch of others and always come back to this winning combo. Worth noting that Feedbin’s web app is also great.

nipperkinfeet• 4 years ago

QuiteRSS. I stuck with it for years, still works.

sh33sh• 4 years ago

Same comment as last time

Never understood why nobody talks about NewsExplorer

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306, the only third party app on my phone that is available on ALL iDevices it’s actually insane

iCloud sync without needed rss backend, snapshot/export/import/folder Also reads Twitter private lists and feed

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Stable with tens of thousands of articles unread

miguel-muniz• 4 years ago

+1 for News Explorer. Took a bit to configure, but I use it every day with no issues. Even use the Watch app sometimes

gen2203• 4 years ago

I've been self-hosting miniflux [0] for a couple years. Rock solid performance, deployment is easy, upgrades are small but meaningful, and doesn't use anything exotic in the tech stack (mainly Go, some vanilla JS, persists data in PostgreSQL).

I mainly browse on my laptop, but it's pretty decent on mobile.

[0] https://github.com/miniflux/v2

jhot• 4 years ago

Also a happy miniflux holster. On Android I use Miniflutt [0] as a client, mainly for the mark as read on scroll feature. Any fever API compatible app will work, though.

0 https://github.com/DocMarty84/miniflutt

ekovarski• 4 years ago

Self hosted miniflux as well but kept running into 403/429 errors when using reddit rss feeds, went back to freshrss.

The biggest issue is that once you invest in a reader, your data aside from the feed opml, is stuck in that reader so your favourites, labels, and content can't migrate.

gen2203• 4 years ago

Interesting feedback on reddit RSS feeds. I'm only subscribed to a single reddit feed, but it's totally possible that miniflux was spamming requests and that led to a rate limit. It isn't super customizable in terms of how frequently it pings to see if new items have been added, it's a fair criticism.

I'd gently push back on the migration issue. As long as you're going the self-hosted route, all of this data exists on your machine. A tool for painless migration from X reader to Y reader might not exist, but at least it's feasible to build. If your data is in some hosted solution, you're at the mercy of the provider to implement data exports.

sjs382• 4 years ago

Ive been using Feedbin basically since Google Reader shut down. The web interface is very usable for someone who mostly navigated GR via the keyboard.

heywoodlh• 4 years ago

I self-host FreshRSS and mostly consume my feeds through Reeder on my iPhone. When I want to connect to FreshRSS on desktop I typically use NewsBoat.

bradwood• 4 years ago

https://newsboat.org/

animesh2• 4 years ago

QuiteRSS until the end.

seba_dos1• 4 years ago

CommaFeed

Moustache64713• 4 years ago

Currently using Feedly, but my subscription is ending in January. I'm thinking of taking advantage of an Inoreader offer that is active until December 28 and switching to there. It is advisable?

I don't usually read my feeds in the RSS service, but I look at the headlines and mark what interests me to send it to Pocket and read it quietly there or on the original website of the site.

nokya• 4 years ago

QuiteRSS on Windows. Still not perfect in terms of features but it's fast.

timbit423• 4 years ago

QuiteRSS also runs on Linux.

prirai• 4 years ago

I use Quite rss on the web, Akregator in Linux and Feeder on Android. I have over 500 feeds so most services ask for payment to get all those enabled. These work great, are open source and usable for me and the best is I get them for free.

BinaryBird• 4 years ago

For many years, I used Feedity for generating RSS feeds from webpages without one. They've since renamed to New Sloth, and also have a nice although basic feed reader. I like its article grouping feature, and use the whole package (feed creation and reading) for my research work on a daily basis.

https://newsloth.com

Nearsyh• 4 years ago

I'm self-hosting my own RSS reader implementation. Feel free to check it out https://github.com/nearsyh/near-rss.

JasonFruit• 4 years ago

I'm amazed to search this whole conversation and not find anyone using Liferea. Simple, free, and effective. I have no complaints.

timbit423• 4 years ago

I used Liferea for some years. Then I found QuiteRSS, which is much better.

Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?

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