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I rely on RSS for podcasts (which I love) and also for both news and information. I've found nothing better for having a single place where you choose the cont

I rely on RSS for podcasts (which I love) and also for both news and information. I've found nothing better for having a single place where you choose the content and absorb the information at your own pace. I'm in the minority preferring a desktop application though - so it an sit in the background and I can switch to it for short 5-minute burst every couple of hours rather than visiting a web site. Sadly there seem to be no desktop apps that are maintained anymore. I'm currently using RSSOwl, but it's no longer being maintained and has started crashing regularly.

kranner 10y ago
> Sadly there seem to be no desktop apps that are maintained anymore. iTunes supports RSS if you're on Mac or Windows though it's not obvious (File->Subscribe to podcast... add RSS link)
- bhrgunatha 10y ago
  Thanks but I'm on Linux.
  - chipotle_coyote 10y ago
    There's Feedreader, at least: https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ I'm sure there must be others out there for Linux? There are several available for OS X (er, macOS); I use a commercial one called Reeder, but there's also NetNewsWire and the open source ViennaRSS (which appears to still be in active development).
  - avhon1 10y ago
    Here's an incomplete list of graphical RSS readers for Linux that have had releases in the last year: QuiteRSS [http://quiterss.org/ http://quiterss.org/] KDE Kontact [https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact] Liferea [http://lzone.de/liferea/ http://lzone.de/liferea/] RSS Guard [https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard] Seamonkey [http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ http://www.seamonkey-project.org/] Thunderbird [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/] Firefox ("live bookmarks") [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/] In the console, I like newsbeuter [http://www.newsbeuter.org/ http://www.newsbeuter.org/]
    - bhrgunatha 10y ago
      That's a great list and some options I haven't seen before I'll try out.
  - rakoo 10y ago
    I use monboob (http://weboob.org/applications/monboob http://weboob.org/applications/monboob) on my little VPS to fetch rss feeds and send them to me by email. This way I don't need an extra application, and it is automatically synchronized on all my devices, thanks to yet another decade-old standard: IMAP (I do need to set some filters on my Gmail so they don't appear in the INBOX, though)
  - type0 10y ago
    A couple more tips: 1. offrss 2. Bamboo reader as an extension for Thunderbird
myrion 10y ago
Thunderbird supports getting RSS and Atom feeds, though it is a bit big for only getting feeds.
- bhrgunatha 10y ago
  I already use Thunderbird for mail so I'm going to try it and see how it goes.
jasonkostempski 10y ago
I've been using QuiteRSS. Active development, cross-platform, GPL, finds RSS feeds in html link tags automatically (how I found YouTube's feeds). I can't think of anything else I want from an RSS reader.

kranner 10y ago

> Sadly there seem to be no desktop apps that are maintained anymore. iTunes supports RSS if you're on Mac or Windows though it's not obvious (File->Subscribe to podcast... add RSS link)

bhrgunatha 10y ago
Thanks but I'm on Linux.
- chipotle_coyote 10y ago
  There's Feedreader, at least: https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ I'm sure there must be others out there for Linux? There are several available for OS X (er, macOS); I use a commercial one called Reeder, but there's also NetNewsWire and the open source ViennaRSS (which appears to still be in active development).
- avhon1 10y ago
  Here's an incomplete list of graphical RSS readers for Linux that have had releases in the last year: QuiteRSS [http://quiterss.org/ http://quiterss.org/] KDE Kontact [https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact] Liferea [http://lzone.de/liferea/ http://lzone.de/liferea/] RSS Guard [https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard] Seamonkey [http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ http://www.seamonkey-project.org/] Thunderbird [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/] Firefox ("live bookmarks") [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/] In the console, I like newsbeuter [http://www.newsbeuter.org/ http://www.newsbeuter.org/]
  - bhrgunatha 10y ago
    That's a great list and some options I haven't seen before I'll try out.
- rakoo 10y ago
  I use monboob (http://weboob.org/applications/monboob http://weboob.org/applications/monboob) on my little VPS to fetch rss feeds and send them to me by email. This way I don't need an extra application, and it is automatically synchronized on all my devices, thanks to yet another decade-old standard: IMAP (I do need to set some filters on my Gmail so they don't appear in the INBOX, though)
- type0 10y ago
  A couple more tips: 1. offrss 2. Bamboo reader as an extension for Thunderbird

myrion 10y ago

Thunderbird supports getting RSS and Atom feeds, though it is a bit big for only getting feeds.

bhrgunatha 10y ago
I already use Thunderbird for mail so I'm going to try it and see how it goes.

jasonkostempski 10y ago

I've been using QuiteRSS. Active development, cross-platform, GPL, finds RSS feeds in html link tags automatically (how I found YouTube's feeds). I can't think of anything else I want from an RSS reader.