Show HN: A Google Reader-inspired RSS reader
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Likewise when they dropped Listen for podcasts, currently I'm on Antennapod. If I can get an app from f-droid, I prefer it.
I can live with backing up my OPML files whenever I add a blog or podcast, and having no web server for desktop use or tracking read/unread progress; I just only consume from my primary phone.
See, I had a local feedly login (with randomized password etc) but they Sussed out it was a google workspace enabled account/domain and would constantly try to redirect me to googles oath.
I moved to miniflux and love it. Easy to manage and super lightweight.
The only “feature” I wish it had was a “mark all items older than 1 day as read”.
You can mark all as read. And you can inverse your sort date and expand how many articles are paginated to mark large swaths as read. But a simple button to do some cleaning if I hadn’t read feeds in a week (and likely wouldn’t care for week old content) would be great.
Still is amazing overall and even that is a nitpick. In fact I donated a bit to the maintainer just this month.
I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service, but it would be super-nice to be able to enter a youtube username (for example) and have it build a feed from it, as Google is, at best, wildly inconsistent about providing youtube RSS feeds. Essentially baked-in rsshub functionality. But I'm fine running rsshub in parallel.
Agree entirely. Which is why I never bothered to even ask the dev about my “nitpick”.
I did try a few git repos that would do similar, but they were based on old builds of ruby and well, it didn’t go too well (and I’m not a Ruby on Rails person).
That said I will just periodically purge all reads, and history, and refresh all feeds in background to keep it running smooth.
It’s actually how I came to this very thread.
Re: YouTube, have you tried putting in a channel URL? Miniflux is great at finding rss feeds from indirect urls. But I have noticed rss is increasingly being stripped from sites, probably in an attempt to drive actual traffic stats. I usually try to visit the external link for some sites to give them the traffic/hits. Nevertheless some of my favorite feeds like TalkingPoints Memo and The Drive have completely stripped RSS off their site, which is a shame.
I'd typic'ly want to listen to the most recent 'cast from a two or three different Japanese news sources, then switch to whatever else is unread, especially when driving. I'd want to set this up as an automation, rather than spend time manually overriding (adding, removing, arranging) AntennaPod's playlist and manually ensuring each playlist item is downloaded before I go to places with spotty signal.
As it is, I go months at a time without using any podcasts players because I don't know how find one that fits my very idiosyncratic use case. Life is usually easier if I just ignore "the news" rather than 'fight' with getting sources ready one to three times per day. (>.>)
(I made a couple of really simple contributions back in the day but decided maintaining my own fork was the easy path. The maintainer has a reputation for being a bit prickly to deal with. He wasn't uncivil or anything, but it was clearly his project and that's just fine.)
When it disappeared, I switched to NewsBlur.
NewsBlur is great but it lacks one particular feature: an RSS feed for a folder of blogs. (or a category of blogs, potato - potahto)
So I switched to self-hosted FreshRSS.
It has all the features I want (plus, unlike NewsBlur, it's free) but it is Docker-based and I am already like 10 versions behind and I am too lazy/scared to learn how to upgrade it without destroying the Universe.
BoredReading has a fantastic UI and I absolutely love the approach and organization of feeds. Key shortcuts are cool, too.
If there is ever a self-hosted version that I can feed with my own stuff from scratch (ideally via an OPML file), I'd go for it immediately.
You should be scared, the other day I messed a completely functioning miniflux docker by upgrading it. It's been so long since I set it all up that I lost the incantation necessary for the setup or the will to look it up, just went ahead and I'm using newsblur again. Sigh.
I'm getting old and loosing the will/patience to selfhost.
I keep my containers each in their own dir with a docker compose file with the volumes specified as ./volmedirname:/mountpointincontainer
Which makes it dead simple to write a bash script to go in to each dir, do a docker compose pull then bring everything up again. Extra points to call that script from cron.
BTW, I wrote something along the topic above in an article from 2011 [1].
[1] Extraction of Main Text Content Using the Google Reader NoAPI: http://blog.databigbang.com/extraction-of-main-text-content/
Some sites are generating feeds with links to all articles, not just newest ones. But mostly smaller, personal blogs.
Enjoy.
It's a feature that naturally fits into RSS and helps keep everything in one place. This would probably require browser extensions for best integration/ease of use.
FYI, there are a bunch of apps that sync with Feedly and that you can use as an alternate front end. NetNewsWire (Mac, iOS) is one example that's worth checking out, but there are many options that cover every OS.
On a sidenote, I was shocked to find that basically all sites I read still have RSS feeds.
RSS was a great idea, and I think reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
I've been using Feedly since Reader shut down and it's been fine. Every time I want to add a new feed via URL I feel it's needlessly difficult and suspect they may have moved my cheese once again, but for reading the feeds I'm subscribed to it works great.
Exactly: nothing. You can export your feeds and import them somewhere else.
Ditto on adding new feeds. I can never remember how to do it, and if I do, it doesn't work anymore.
Also very few readers has twitter/reddit support.
Would love to figure out a way I can work out a self hosted version for those who want it, given there is enough interest in it. This goes to anyone else who's interested in self hosting, please email me! Thanks!
it can have a shortcut to dismiss a read article.
it has a dark mode.