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What's a good RSS page / app? On android, Google chrome has a RSS like feed that I rather like, but it feels weird to use - I never intended to have it or use

What's a good RSS page / app? On android, Google chrome has a RSS like feed that I rather like, but it feels weird to use - I never intended to have it or use it, and I have no real insight into it.

aaronbrethorst 8y ago
http://www.feedbin.com http://www.feedbin.com
torstenvl 8y ago
I like Reeder on iOS/Mac. Within the app, you can choose a number of different sync mechanisms - I use Inoreader as mine.
- mrmondo 8y ago
  Absolutely - Reeder IMO is a very well designed app and it’s great going from my phone / iPad to my home / work desktops and having the syncing work properly. I use Feedly for my subscriptions, filters and other logic processing.
_emacsomancer_ 8y ago
Newsblur is really nice. Web site, mobile apps, and it's even accessible in Emacs via elfeed-protocol.
acemarke 8y ago
On the web, BazQux Reader ( https://bazqux.com https://bazqux.com ). Excellent successor to Google Reader, and totally worth the $20/yr subscription On Android, News+ , which has a BazQux plugin.
SamWhited 8y ago
I use https://www.inoreader.com; https://www.inoreader.com; it has a pretty nice Android app too.
mmusc 8y ago
I've been using feedly. Free version just works.
Maledictus 8y ago
Host your own FreshRSS.
erikrothoff 8y ago
I have built https://feeder.co https://feeder.co would love HN’s feedback.
- gbear605 8y ago
  Big fan, I use it everyday. That said, I do have one small complaint. It is with a change just made in the last few days: the new iOS app update makes it so if you are on the list of all unread articles and you swipe left to mark an article as read, then the article disappears from the list. I’ve repeatedly accidentally marked an article as read and then had to go searching through all my feeds to find it. Instead, it should have the old behavior where it removes the “NEW” icon but otherwise doesn’t change. The app currently still had this behavior when you actually open the article and view it. Even better would be a complete feed sorted by date that shows both read and unread but has unread at the top. This would be similar to how the iOS mail app works.
  - erikrothoff 8y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. Cool to find a user on Hacker News! That's something I hadn't considered. I personally felt it more satisfying to mark as read when the post flies out. But I agree that it can be inconvenient. Do you think an Undo button would help (not sure if you've tried the Outlook iOS app, but it does it really well)? We have better sorting options in the web and browser extensions, adding them to our iOS and Android apps is prio though. I like the idea with unread at the top!
    - gbear605 8y ago
      An undo button would definitely help, especially if it is able to undo multiple times. Thanks for the fast help! I really appreciate it, and it will make me even more likely to keep on using Feeder in the future
ink_13 8y ago
I use The Old Reader: https://theoldreader.com/ https://theoldreader.com/ It's 95% like Google Reader used to be.
- YouKnowBetter 8y ago
  No idea what made people "not like" you mentioning https://theoldreader.com https://theoldreader.com since that is what I use and came by to say. As to the article's headline: if your site does not offer a working RSS feed, you've lost me as a "subscriber". I have nor the time nor the patience to track a 100 sides manually.
EvanAnderson 8y ago
I'll throw out a plug for ttrss.
- ylmm 8y ago
  +1. After some of the initial pain of setting it up (which was educational for me anyway), it's exactly the sort of lightweight thing I was looking for after Google Reader shuttered.
nicolaslem 8y ago
I made https://feedsubs.com https://feedsubs.com to read feeds from my phone with a minimalistic interface.
rakoo 8y ago
I used to run a bot that sent RSS items to my email, so I could use _any_ UI I wanted to manage those (because rss is just like emails you receive en masse without any reply, so any mail client will work). Bonus: Sync is built-in, no need for some fancy protocol that only works in some applications on some platforms. I don't use it anymore, not because RSS is bad but because I don't need rss
jhund 8y ago
Shameless plug for https://contentgems.com https://contentgems.com. It has RSS reader, Feed filtering, and it treats URLs in your twitter home timeline as a feed, too.

What's a good RSS page / app? On android, Google chrome has a RSS like feed that I rather like, but it feels weird to use - I never intended to have it or use it, and I have no real insight into it.

aaronbrethorst 8y ago

http://www.feedbin.com http://www.feedbin.com

torstenvl 8y ago

I like Reeder on iOS/Mac. Within the app, you can choose a number of different sync mechanisms - I use Inoreader as mine.

mrmondo 8y ago
Absolutely - Reeder IMO is a very well designed app and it’s great going from my phone / iPad to my home / work desktops and having the syncing work properly. I use Feedly for my subscriptions, filters and other logic processing.

_emacsomancer_ 8y ago

Newsblur is really nice. Web site, mobile apps, and it's even accessible in Emacs via elfeed-protocol.

acemarke 8y ago

On the web, BazQux Reader ( https://bazqux.com https://bazqux.com ). Excellent successor to Google Reader, and totally worth the $20/yr subscription On Android, News+ , which has a BazQux plugin.

SamWhited 8y ago

I use https://www.inoreader.com; https://www.inoreader.com; it has a pretty nice Android app too.

mmusc 8y ago

I've been using feedly. Free version just works.

Maledictus 8y ago

Host your own FreshRSS.

erikrothoff 8y ago

I have built https://feeder.co https://feeder.co would love HN’s feedback.

gbear605 8y ago
Big fan, I use it everyday. That said, I do have one small complaint. It is with a change just made in the last few days: the new iOS app update makes it so if you are on the list of all unread articles and you swipe left to mark an article as read, then the article disappears from the list. I’ve repeatedly accidentally marked an article as read and then had to go searching through all my feeds to find it. Instead, it should have the old behavior where it removes the “NEW” icon but otherwise doesn’t change. The app currently still had this behavior when you actually open the article and view it. Even better would be a complete feed sorted by date that shows both read and unread but has unread at the top. This would be similar to how the iOS mail app works.
- erikrothoff 8y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. Cool to find a user on Hacker News! That's something I hadn't considered. I personally felt it more satisfying to mark as read when the post flies out. But I agree that it can be inconvenient. Do you think an Undo button would help (not sure if you've tried the Outlook iOS app, but it does it really well)? We have better sorting options in the web and browser extensions, adding them to our iOS and Android apps is prio though. I like the idea with unread at the top!
  - gbear605 8y ago
    An undo button would definitely help, especially if it is able to undo multiple times. Thanks for the fast help! I really appreciate it, and it will make me even more likely to keep on using Feeder in the future

ink_13 8y ago

I use The Old Reader: https://theoldreader.com/ https://theoldreader.com/ It's 95% like Google Reader used to be.

YouKnowBetter 8y ago
No idea what made people "not like" you mentioning https://theoldreader.com https://theoldreader.com since that is what I use and came by to say. As to the article's headline: if your site does not offer a working RSS feed, you've lost me as a "subscriber". I have nor the time nor the patience to track a 100 sides manually.

EvanAnderson 8y ago

I'll throw out a plug for ttrss.

ylmm 8y ago
+1. After some of the initial pain of setting it up (which was educational for me anyway), it's exactly the sort of lightweight thing I was looking for after Google Reader shuttered.

nicolaslem 8y ago

I made https://feedsubs.com https://feedsubs.com to read feeds from my phone with a minimalistic interface.

rakoo 8y ago

I used to run a bot that sent RSS items to my email, so I could use _any_ UI I wanted to manage those (because rss is just like emails you receive en masse without any reply, so any mail client will work). Bonus: Sync is built-in, no need for some fancy protocol that only works in some applications on some platforms. I don't use it anymore, not because RSS is bad but because I don't need rss

jhund 8y ago

Shameless plug for https://contentgems.com https://contentgems.com. It has RSS reader, Feed filtering, and it treats URLs in your twitter home timeline as a feed, too.