Comment by nachtigall | Hacker News Reader

Comment by nachtigall | Hacker News Reader

For everyone looking for an alternative, Brief is an excellent add-on and I've been using it for the last 2 years:

AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/

GitHub: https://github.com/brief-rss/brief

It also includes a `Page action` so that an RSS icon is shown in the address bar on sites that support RSS/Atom. Great for discovery.

Edit: Really strange, that `Brief` is missing in the curated list of readers that mozilla is linking to from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement... as alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/mozilla... (This looks like a really poor list) I've seen `Brief` recommended all the time by users. I don't really mind that Firefox removes its RSS support: It was missing many features anyway and had a really poor UX.

You can check Feedbro as an alternative to Brief: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader

I was a long time user of Brief but moved away during the transition to webextensions. Although Brief worked there were some performance issues at the time (maybe solved now?). Both provide a similar user experience, and are the two best RSS readers I used so far.

Feedbro isn't open source, unfortunately.

Brief is atrocious-looking out of the box, but you can enter your own CSS to override the styling. I've been pretty happy with it for the last few years.

For Mac users, the award winning Reeder, considered to be the best RSS/Atom reader for macOS, became a free app a few weeks ago: http://reederapp.com/mac/.

Bonus: for feeds that provide just the headline and an intro paragraph, it has Mercury Reader built-in, which allows you to access the entire article without leaving Reeder.

Thanks for pointing this out!

I'm currently using a feed reader installed on my web server so that I can access and sync my feeds between all my devices (home computer, work computer and smartphone). I use Firefox on all of my devices. Do you know if there is a way to sync the Brief database on different devices to keep them in sync?

There isn't yet.

https://github.com/brief-rss/brief/issues/93

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