Hacker News Reader

I share the passion for feeds. IMHO the decision of whether a site exports feeds should not be just up to the owner. There should be a neutral transformation layer that translates any html to rss. Shameless plug [0]. Feel free to support it.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

RSS feeds are common, but most readers are mediocre. I'm stuck between some proprietary "pay to remove ads and subscribe for premium" crap, an emacs mode that randomly sometimes takes up to an hour to open, and Thunderbird, which recently deleted all of my RSS feeds.

NetNewsWire has been reliable.

I use newsboat on Linux, and Feeder on Android.

Just curious, what (viable) state of the internet fits your definition of “happy”, or at least “not sad”?

For me at least, being able to use whatever software that adheres to the standard. This means that novice users can use a software that specifically targets them, while experienced users can use a swiss-knife program or even write their own program to handle it. For RSS specifically, most news sites do not have RSS now, which means that you need to visit them one-by-one or use an agregator that you can't modify much.