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Sputnik – Simple and practical RSS reader

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I like this! I'm right now reading Ars on it and it works pretty well.

A tiny request: Would it be possible to allow changing the background graphic? Maybe a wallpaper of my choosing? Also, a method to "archive" in addition to saving tagged articles would be awesome. Having to tag if I want to keep an article permanently each time may be a bit cumbersome.

Edit: Oops, nevermind about the background image. Found bg.jpg in Sputnik\app\visual\images ;)

Why does it use less than half of my monitor width? I'm on a 1920 x 1080, and the feed pane is only 770 pixels wide - and not resizable. What's the purpose of this? Most of the screen estate is wasted for a wallpaper of author's choice, instead of displaying the content I'm actually interested in. I find this design choice really hard to understand.

This looks nice, but will there be a Linux version?

At the moment it only available for MacOS and Windows, hopefully in the future develop a compatible version with Linux (Debian, Suse, etc.)

Mac app is not signed, makes the os nag about unidentified developer.

I'm fine with running it but a lot of people might not bother with security settings.

It is not about no bothering with security settings. I would rather pay something, and have it signed. I will not run it --even if free-- if not.

That's a pretty silly tact to take. Especially since being signed doesn't mean "not malicious'

None of my OS X apps are signed either and honestly it is because you have to pay Apple $100 every year to be able to sign them. As a student I have quite a lot of free time to work on Open Source applications but $100 every 12 months is still quite a lot of money for a hobby where I give away the fruits of my work for free.

(Or at least I can't find out how to sign it without paying)

It seems not to be able to synchronize my read/starred articles with any server (TinyTinyRSS, feedly, ownCloud News, feever, etc.). For me this functionality is essential because I use 4 different devices to read my feeds, but I understand that there are people out there who only read them on one devise.

how do you run it behind proxy. I am not able to understand much from https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/130

hi,

i added this line in sputnik\app\helpers\net.js after line 10... and it worked...

options.proxy = 'http://username:password@proxy.domain.com:8080/';

Hard to find names that haven't been used before, but Sputnik is the name of a Wiki/CMS for Lua.

https://github.com/yuri/sputnik

This looks really, really good. the UX is pretty sleak. I'm switching from Leaf to Sputick for a few days and see how it goes. Only needs some work on those media queries.

If you want simple and practical RSS reading in a terminal window, use Newsbeuter.

http://newsbeuter.org/

Nice to see more apps based on node-webkit, best of luck.

I miss one very important setting. Hide/don't show "marked as read"

After google reader was killed out sadly my RSS feed reading has come to a halt.

I was a Google Reader user too. When it was shutdown, Feedly[1] came to the rescue in a very nice, and free, way.

[1] http://cloud.feedly.com/#welcome

I'm using feedly but their android app is horribly unreliable. Anyone have a better alternative?

Newsblur [1]

[1] http://newsblur.com

I use the Press app on Android attached to my Feedly account, and I couldn't be happier.

http://twentyfivesquares.com/press/

Press is a decent Android app with a lot of sync options. I use it with my reader via Fever API. The only complaint is that it has a few memory leaks which causes it to crash every now and then on memory constrained devices.

If you have a server where you can install something yourself, I recommend TinyTinyRSS[1], or if you already run a ownCloud instance then ownCloud News[2]. For both of them there are desktop and mobile clients, TTRSS even has a fever plugin[3] which mimics the fever API so you can use it with all clients which only support the fever API too.

[1] http://tt-rss.org/ [2] http://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php?content=158434 [3] https://github.com/dasmurphy/tinytinyrss-fever-plugin

I tried newsblur for a while but bazqux.com has Readability text download built-in (on the ; key) and I can't do without that now.

Strongly recommend giving Feedbin a go (http://feedbin.me) - only $3 per month and a great client (plus a number of mobile and desktop apps to choose from).

Need to import from feedly, any suggestions?

yes, export your subscriptions as an OPML file (Feedly -> Organize), Sputnik can import it.

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