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You kids these days.

I started using RSS in, I believe 2003, back when Mac OS X apps looked like this:

https://ranchero.com/images/nnw/progress.jpg

We synced our RSS feeds via FTP or .Mac, and we liked it.

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For modern macOS and iOS users, Reeder 5 came out about a week ago and is pretty nice.

No .Mac syncing, but it does support iCloud!

NetNewsWire (from parent comment's screenshot) is also still around. Plenty of great RSS reader options.

NetNewsWire is even FOSS.

It supports only Feedbin (itself FOSS but supports non-self hosted) and Feedly though. I want to self-host. TANSTAAFL and either I get used for profiling/upselling (Feedly) or I need to pay money while I can self host (Feedbin).

Reeder 4 is also good, I tried it (for free) right before Reeder 5 got released. It supports a whole lot more than NetNewsWire, including self hosting services FreshRSS, Reader, and Fever (deprecated). It also has support for Pocket.

So I went with Reeder and got FreshRSS installed.

On Android I settled with FeedMe, but honestly I haven't found a slick one which works with FreshRSS.

I could settle with tmux + CLI + Browsh. In that case, consider Newsboat. It supports a myriad of (self-hosted) RSS services. But not the ones Reeder supports...

The next version of NetNewsWire will have iCloud sync, according to the roadmap.

edit: source: https://inessential.com/2020/09/19/netnewswire_5_1_for_mac_f...

Yeah, and perhaps more methods (that one's useless for me, YMMV). Its FOSS too, but author doesn't accept money bounty.

Reeder was a great app even when used on the iPhone 4, granted it was the best one out as the time. I believe Reeder 3 was the final version I bought before phasing out of using RSS. My Main Twitter account was started in 2009 so I think it’s fair to say that by 2013 there was more interesting real-time coverage becoming readily available through other sources instead of a RSS feed.

Now, as someone who has not used RSS since then, do all or many websites still have/advertise RSS feeds? I imagine each section now has their own obscure URL instead of a main feed hidden away in menus but I don’t know. Or if modern apps have a Internet-wide search where you can simply time in “News Site X” and it’ll populate their feeds.

Twitter has become easy to digest but I’d much rather prefer my news coming in vanilla again.

I use Feedly for my sync backend to various apps.

It has a pretty good automagic feed discovery system. Pop in the root URL of the site, and it’s good about discovering the proper feed.

In 2009 I bought my first smartphone, the HTC Magic. It was also the first smartphone sold by Vodafone Spain, who had zero experience with phones where you could actually use internet, so they offered uncapped contracts. To make things worse: - Android was just a few months old - Apps were not optimized for using as little data as possible - I was REALLY into RSS, with hundred of feeds, and RSS apps where continually polling for changes.

The rest is history: my first month with a smartphone - May 2009 - I consumed 10GB of data and I received a few calls from the Vodafone people

Funny, looking at that screenshot filled me with nostalgia for a program I've never used.

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