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Are there even any great RSS readers anymore? I sure would like a nice win+linux FOSS reader with a snappy keyboard based UI. Or something.

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If you're an Apple user, NetNewsWire [0] is back, open source, with iOS and macOS clients that sync with a variety of servers, now including zero-configuration iCloud sync (which is what I was waiting for).

Works great, fast, clean, simple. Highly recommended.

Disjoint set of platforms from the ones you mention in your second sentence, though.

[0] https://netnewswire.com

There are quite a few RSS out there. The list below is standalone including self-hosting software.

QuiteRSS (Win,Mac,Linux), RSSOwl (Win,Mac,Linux), RSS Guard (Win,Mac,Linux), Ravens.js (electron), TT-RSS (self-hosting), FreshRSS (self-hosting), LifeRea (Linux only), Arss (macOS).

If you are fine with self-hosting, then I recommend getting FreshRSS over TT-RSS and FreshRSS have support for RSS Bridge which will make FreshRSS a powerful tool. I prefers FreshRSS because I can set it up in my XAMP easily, TT-RSS moved to Docker only. Also FreshRSS provide their RSS feed API for other RSS software to hook into it. So you can use mobile app with FreshRSS feed directly to it.

I have been looking for a good windows rss reader for a while, Ravens.js looks pretty solid. Thanks for the tip.

I second FreshRSS. I was a longtime tt-rss user, but switched about 4 years ago.

Now if only I could find the perfect Android RSS client to talk to it. EasyRSS is the closest so far, but it has some bugs that occasionally annoy me.

These days the best-of-breed are all web-based, which is fine by me since it's web-based content I'm reading, anyway.

I personally run tt-rss and I quite like it precisely because it's light, fast, has good keyboard shortcuts, and has a solid Android app.

I used to use Feedly and it's also an excellent option if you're not into hosting your own infrastructure.

I've used almost all of the readers, web and software based, and ended up settling on newsboat. You can set up a url handler script that throws links at appropriate viewers (like mpv for youtube videos, rtv for reddit threads) and it ends up being pretty seamless and fast. No mobile of course which I don't mind, but you could just export your feed list and use another rss reader for that if you really needed your feeds on your phone too.

NetNewsWire and Vienna are two nice options but unfortunately only for macOS. Here are some other suggestions for Linux, haven’t tried them though: https://alternativeto.net/software/vienna/?platform=linux

I felt like I lost RSS altogether after my macbook died, years ago - Vienna is one of the greatest macos apps out there. Or was, >5 y ago.

Feedbin, which is currently a backend option for NetNewsWire, also has a web-based UI that works on any OS. [1]

[1]: https://feedbin.com/

I use Miniflux and I'm very happy: https://miniflux.app

There's a paid hosting version that's only $15/year.

Yeah me too! I have my own instance. Well I have a service that set it up for me.

I used to use InoReader and Miniflux, but have since moved to newsboat (https://newsboat.org/) and love it.

I wrote an RSS reader named Brook that's open source, runs on Firefox, and keeps all your data local, so you don't need to rely on a service that might disappear.

There's little or no keyboard support at the moment, but if you're interested in helping to either develop or make some suggestions, I'd be up for improving it! Plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re... Source: https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/08a450f6d21388f6bfc51f2b...

I'm a happy customer of https://bazqux.com. It is a paid RSS reader that seems to be developed by one guy. The web UI is very good, and it's supported by Reeder, an iOS news aggregator app I use.

I use InoReader, its essentially google reader in all the ways that (used to) matter

I haven't found one. The features I really need are: - decent filters, portable across all clients (macos + iOS for me) - reader mode - shared read/unread/starred (i.e. keep even if read) state - ad blocking works

I don't really like in-browser but could tolerate it if it could do all of the above

I use ReadKit on the Mac (has filters, but local to the client) and Reeder on iOS. I am using FeedWrangler as the back end; its filter language (at least as documented) is unfortunately inadequate for my needs. Otherwise it's been fine.

Personally, I use feedbin.com on the web, and Reeder on the Mac destkop (which optionally syncs to Feedbin's API).

Unfortunately neither meet your Win/Linux requirement, but just pointing out there are some excellent options out there.

I used Thunderbird for a while, then I switched to newsblur (paid, but cheap) so that it would fetch articles even when my computer wasn't on and so that I could access it on my phone.

If you are on Mac / iOS, try https://reederapp.com. Can sync with several RSS services or sync with iCloud

Miniflux is good, it's what I use. It isn't desktop based though, and it needs a server install.

You should try https://fraidyc.at/. It's a unique tool.

After a long search (5 years), finally happily settled with selfhosted miniflux.

Use a plugin in claws mail and another in FF. Linux. I maintain Tidings for sfos.

The article is literally from someone who makes one?

Newsboat

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