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Which RSS reader do you use?

newscracker 7y ago
I use Reeder 3 on iOS and NetNewsWire on Mac. NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. An iOS version (also free) is coming in the first quarter of 2020.
mhb 7y ago
Not the OP, but https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/ is very nice.
- asymmetric 7y ago
  Is there a self-hosted RSS reader that does feed de-summarization, like BazQux seems to do?
  - MekaiGS 7y ago
    The only one I know is: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/ https://fivefilters.org/content-only/ It works for all the major sites but it is paid but with self-hosting option.
  - Semaphor 7y ago
    I think Newsblur [0] can do it but self hosting it is pretty involved. [0]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
pmoriarty 7y ago
I use a terminal RSS reader called newsboat[1][2], which is an actively developed fork of newsbeuter. It's pretty feature rich, fast, keyboard-oriented (supporting vi movement keys), and works great in the terminal. Another great thing about it is that it runs completely on my own machine, so I don't have to give away information about my reading preferences to any third party, as would be the case for any hosted RSS service. I love RSS because it gives me lean, fast, ad-free, bloat-free information. I hope it never dies. [1] - https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/ [2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
- kgwxd 7y ago
  I love newsbeuter, it's how I get all latest news about the death of RSS :)
  - fredthomsen 7y ago
    Feels like there has been a bit of a resurgence lately, not that I have any hard data to back that up. The major players ie google and now apple have dumped it, but most blogs and news sites still have rss feeds.
    - PhasmaFelis 7y ago
      RSS has always been the best way to follow multiple webcomics. I'm not sure why it seems so little-known in that world.
      - MereInterest 7y ago
        Definitely. If a comic doesn't have an RSS feed, I won't keep up with it. It isn't worth keeping track of the different update schedules and platforms.
    - _jal 7y ago
      It has always been a "people's choice" sort of thing, a least for a certain slice of "people". Large media outfits tend to hate RSS because it puts curation in the hands of users, and that curation function is what a lot of people will pay a lot of money to influence. Smaller media outfits like it, because they can find readers without paying money to influence the large gatekeepers. As blogging has "matured", the big shops are feeling more confident that they can lock folks back in to their curation.
      - asdff 7y ago
        Ironically its the large media outlets that usually have categorical and comprehensive rss feeds, presumably by virtue of being around during the peak google reader years when rss was expected and not bothering with purging the functionality. It's the upstart outlets that I notice not having RSS at all, with a twitter handle in its place. Pass for me.
mey 7y ago
Newsblur
pooroldlistr 7y ago
I have a script run rsstail via cron to catch updates and email it to Gmail for reading/review Email is HTML formatted how I want, and Gmail will probably not be deprecated any time soon. https://github.com/flok99/rsstail https://github.com/flok99/rsstail
jjordan 7y ago
Not the OP, but I've never found anything faster than the Livemarks plugin for quickly scanning headlines from all of your favorite sites with a quick mouseover in your browser's bookmark toolbar. Livemarks (or the Chrome/Vivaldi equivalent 'Foxish live RSS') was released after Firefox killed off their Live Bookmarks feature a year or so ago. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/jpgagcapnkccceppgljfpoadahaopjdb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/jp...
TuringNYC 7y ago
I use Feedly. I subscribe (paid) to Apple News +. I wish I could read thru Feedly.
Nextgrid 7y ago
I recommend News Explorer. It has seamless sync between the Mac and iOS version via iCloud.
eisa01 7y ago
Inoreader is my choice. If you pay for it, you can also feed email newsletters/press releases into it, and follow Twitter/Facebook pages
- sys_64738 7y ago
  Been using inoreader since Google Reader died. Great service which I found this page from :)
IceWreck 7y ago
Fresh RSS is my favorite. It is self hosted and has apps for mobile.
amaccuish 7y ago
https://github.com/wking/rss2email https://github.com/wking/rss2email Just sends the latest articles to an IMAP folder. I can use any device that syncs to my email (currently using the built in ActiveSync client on Android), and can access it from webmail, and via Thunderbird on Linux.
CountHackulus 7y ago
Just going to pimp https://theoldreader.com/ https://theoldreader.com/ which mimics the old Google Reader UI down to the shortcuts. I don't think I could live without it and gladly pay my yearly membership for the premium version even if I don't actually need it.
manigandham 7y ago
https://feedly.com/ https://feedly.com/ is the best web-based reader today. Mobile app also works great.
netghost 7y ago
Since this seems to be the thread where everyone mentions the RSS feed reader they use/write, I'll share Brook. It's a very minimal feed reader that gives you what you need and gets out of the way. You can use it in Firefox right now, and if anyone is interested, I'll port it to Chrome. Honestly I wrote it because my old favorite feed reader Sage wasn't supported after Firefox switched to the web extensions standards. Give it a peek if you either want to see how it works, or you just want a simple way to browse your favorite sites in your browser. Source: https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook Plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-reader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re... (Okay, now let's get back to the regularly scheduled outrage around the decline of RSS and maybe mention how Google doesn't support its products anymore ;) )

I use Reeder 3 on iOS and NetNewsWire on Mac. NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. An iOS version (also free) is coming in the first quarter of 2020.

mhb 7y ago

Not the OP, but https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/ is very nice.

asymmetric 7y ago
Is there a self-hosted RSS reader that does feed de-summarization, like BazQux seems to do?
- MekaiGS 7y ago
  The only one I know is: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/ https://fivefilters.org/content-only/ It works for all the major sites but it is paid but with self-hosting option.
- Semaphor 7y ago
  I think Newsblur [0] can do it but self hosting it is pretty involved. [0]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

pmoriarty 7y ago

I use a terminal RSS reader called newsboat[1][2], which is an actively developed fork of newsbeuter. It's pretty feature rich, fast, keyboard-oriented (supporting vi movement keys), and works great in the terminal. Another great thing about it is that it runs completely on my own machine, so I don't have to give away information about my reading preferences to any third party, as would be the case for any hosted RSS service. I love RSS because it gives me lean, fast, ad-free, bloat-free information. I hope it never dies. [1] - https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/ [2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

kgwxd 7y ago
I love newsbeuter, it's how I get all latest news about the death of RSS :)
- fredthomsen 7y ago
  Feels like there has been a bit of a resurgence lately, not that I have any hard data to back that up. The major players ie google and now apple have dumped it, but most blogs and news sites still have rss feeds.
  - PhasmaFelis 7y ago
    RSS has always been the best way to follow multiple webcomics. I'm not sure why it seems so little-known in that world.
    - MereInterest 7y ago
      Definitely. If a comic doesn't have an RSS feed, I won't keep up with it. It isn't worth keeping track of the different update schedules and platforms.
  - _jal 7y ago
    It has always been a "people's choice" sort of thing, a least for a certain slice of "people". Large media outfits tend to hate RSS because it puts curation in the hands of users, and that curation function is what a lot of people will pay a lot of money to influence. Smaller media outfits like it, because they can find readers without paying money to influence the large gatekeepers. As blogging has "matured", the big shops are feeling more confident that they can lock folks back in to their curation.
    - asdff 7y ago
      Ironically its the large media outlets that usually have categorical and comprehensive rss feeds, presumably by virtue of being around during the peak google reader years when rss was expected and not bothering with purging the functionality. It's the upstart outlets that I notice not having RSS at all, with a twitter handle in its place. Pass for me.

mey 7y ago

Newsblur

pooroldlistr 7y ago

I have a script run rsstail via cron to catch updates and email it to Gmail for reading/review Email is HTML formatted how I want, and Gmail will probably not be deprecated any time soon. https://github.com/flok99/rsstail https://github.com/flok99/rsstail

jjordan 7y ago

Not the OP, but I've never found anything faster than the Livemarks plugin for quickly scanning headlines from all of your favorite sites with a quick mouseover in your browser's bookmark toolbar. Livemarks (or the Chrome/Vivaldi equivalent 'Foxish live RSS') was released after Firefox killed off their Live Bookmarks feature a year or so ago. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/jpgagcapnkccceppgljfpoadahaopjdb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/jp...

TuringNYC 7y ago

I use Feedly. I subscribe (paid) to Apple News +. I wish I could read thru Feedly.

Nextgrid 7y ago

I recommend News Explorer. It has seamless sync between the Mac and iOS version via iCloud.

eisa01 7y ago

Inoreader is my choice. If you pay for it, you can also feed email newsletters/press releases into it, and follow Twitter/Facebook pages

sys_64738 7y ago
Been using inoreader since Google Reader died. Great service which I found this page from :)

IceWreck 7y ago

Fresh RSS is my favorite. It is self hosted and has apps for mobile.

amaccuish 7y ago

https://github.com/wking/rss2email https://github.com/wking/rss2email Just sends the latest articles to an IMAP folder. I can use any device that syncs to my email (currently using the built in ActiveSync client on Android), and can access it from webmail, and via Thunderbird on Linux.

CountHackulus 7y ago

Just going to pimp https://theoldreader.com/ https://theoldreader.com/ which mimics the old Google Reader UI down to the shortcuts. I don't think I could live without it and gladly pay my yearly membership for the premium version even if I don't actually need it.

manigandham 7y ago

https://feedly.com/ https://feedly.com/ is the best web-based reader today. Mobile app also works great.

netghost 7y ago

Since this seems to be the thread where everyone mentions the RSS feed reader they use/write, I'll share Brook. It's a very minimal feed reader that gives you what you need and gets out of the way. You can use it in Firefox right now, and if anyone is interested, I'll port it to Chrome. Honestly I wrote it because my old favorite feed reader Sage wasn't supported after Firefox switched to the web extensions standards. Give it a peek if you either want to see how it works, or you just want a simple way to browse your favorite sites in your browser. Source: https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook Plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-reader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re... (Okay, now let's get back to the regularly scheduled outrage around the decline of RSS and maybe mention how Google doesn't support its products anymore ;) )