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Comment by merpnderp | Hacker News Reader

The biggest problem with this model is a lot of RSS feeds only return the latest 5 or so items. So if you haven't opened your RSS reader in some time you might miss the other 10 items they published since you were last on. Google Reader was awesome because it solved this problem, but like all great things from Google it came with an expiration date.

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There are some useful replacements to that Google Reader shaped hole in your heart. I'm a happy user of Newsblur, but I've heard nothing but good things for the others in the space like The Old Reader and Feedly.

I’m using TT-RSS to replace Google Reader. It’s easily self hosted and there are several compatible apps on Android and iOS.

I'm building a service that uses RSS. My solution to the problem is just to store every unique item in my database so I'll have a contiguous stream of articles.

Can you add Json RSS too please! :)

Possibly. JSON RSS is such a strange format though imo. A solution looking for a problem.

A Feed reader "requires" a server component, it's true that client-side only feed readers are very limited, unless you never leave you computer offline.

I'm a happy user of Miniflux (hosted myself), but there are many alternatives. https://miniflux.app/

I use Brief, a Firefox extension. It downloads items in the background while Firefox is open, which seems to be often enough that I don't miss anything.

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