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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

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.

After google reader shutdown I switched to http://www.newsblur.com/ as my reader, I recommend and pay for it.

Me, too. It has unique features - I love it!

I'm using Feedly. What unique features does NewsBlur have?

I use newsblur too, Feedly looks pretty similar at first glance. I went with NewsBlur after comparing them all at the time it had everything I wanted, and it wasn't free, so I'm hoping that means it'll last. So far so good on that front :-)

NewsBlur is open-source with cloud options. Feedly wastes too much screen real estate, NewsBlur has an AI option to prioritise articles based on your taste.

Can't agree with you on this one, I like Feedly UI more.

It looks cleaner, but it's not as practical as NewsBlur, which is built for speedy consumption. I love that NewsBlur shows me article edits - sometimes they bring a great aspect you don't get by other RSS readers. Its social features beat what Google Reader had in store as well.

I took a peek at Newsblur. This Reddit-ish UI puts me off too (plus no dark theme...), but I can't rule out it beats Feedly in terms of functionality.

I wonder if their mobile app is any good - while Feedly the webapp is ok, Feedly on Android is severely lacking. Always loading news updates when it's opened (doesn't allow you to skip this step), and if you switch away from it, there's no guarantee it'll return you to the same place... lame

Newsblur does not fit my style of feed consumption, but Inoreader does: https://www.inoreader.com

It took a few years for the world of feed readers, but at least for me I'm as comfortable as with Google Reader now.

+1 for Inoreader. I tried to use also the API for a small personal machine learning project

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.

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

Another enthusiastic vote for Digg Reader.

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.

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

Very similar; made with Go.

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.

Thanks for releasing this!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I use Drupal with the built-in aggregator module for the same purpose.

The demo seems to be down at the moment.

Could you post some screenshots?

already working, http://demo.truerss.net/show/stackoverflow-scala/Which-scala...