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I know this is subjective, but it's so hard to find a good rss reader with a modern UI and isn't inexpensive/free

menotyou 5y ago
I use http://www.netvibes.com http://www.netvibes.com
dntbrsnbl 5y ago
I wrote https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive for this reason(and for offline support). It's free, and should be trivial to selfhost (there's also a live version at https://readr.nz https://readr.nz)
mulderc 5y ago
Reeder and net news wire are both pretty good imho
jjav 5y ago
> I know this is subjective, but it's so hard to find a good rss reader with a modern UI and isn't inexpensive/free To me RSS and the reader are and should be separate. RSS is the protocol to query and retrieve updated articles. The reader can be anything you like. Personally I use rss2email for retrieval and my UI is my email app.
baal80spam 5y ago
Not sure if web reader is OK for you but I've been using FREE tier of Inoreader for over 10 years now. I love it, it does its job and that's what counts.
hopesthoughts 5y ago
Miniflux does it for me. Although you do have to have a place to install it. I mean, it needs a server. Whether that's a home server that you have, or a VPS, it doesn't matter.
jdeibele 5y ago
I use Feedly on the backend, Reeder 3 on my Mac and NetNewsWire on my iPad. I did pay for Reeder years ago and I use it on my Mac because it has good keystroke support (j for next article, etc.) whereas NNW does not. There's a Reeder 5 and the two improvements (for me) that it has over 3 is that Twitter probably won't say "outdated browser" and refuse to show tweets and support for adding newsfeeds directly. I think MacOS added support for this after Reeder 3 was released. Mixing the two readers is fine because Feedly is keeping track for them. If Feedly were to start charging, I'd probably start using NNW exclusively since they provide the option of using iCloud to sync.

I use http://www.netvibes.com http://www.netvibes.com

I wrote https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive for this reason(and for offline support). It's free, and should be trivial to selfhost (there's also a live version at https://readr.nz https://readr.nz)

mulderc 5y ago

Reeder and net news wire are both pretty good imho

jjav 5y ago

> I know this is subjective, but it's so hard to find a good rss reader with a modern UI and isn't inexpensive/free To me RSS and the reader are and should be separate. RSS is the protocol to query and retrieve updated articles. The reader can be anything you like. Personally I use rss2email for retrieval and my UI is my email app.

baal80spam 5y ago

Not sure if web reader is OK for you but I've been using FREE tier of Inoreader for over 10 years now. I love it, it does its job and that's what counts.

hopesthoughts 5y ago

Miniflux does it for me. Although you do have to have a place to install it. I mean, it needs a server. Whether that's a home server that you have, or a VPS, it doesn't matter.

jdeibele 5y ago

I use Feedly on the backend, Reeder 3 on my Mac and NetNewsWire on my iPad. I did pay for Reeder years ago and I use it on my Mac because it has good keystroke support (j for next article, etc.) whereas NNW does not. There's a Reeder 5 and the two improvements (for me) that it has over 3 is that Twitter probably won't say "outdated browser" and refuse to show tweets and support for adding newsfeeds directly. I think MacOS added support for this after Reeder 3 was released. Mixing the two readers is fine because Feedly is keeping track for them. If Feedly were to start charging, I'd probably start using NNW exclusively since they provide the option of using iCloud to sync.