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I had a similar sentiment. I did briefly use feedly until they started messing with their login screens some time back. See, I had a local feedly login (with r

I had a similar sentiment. I did briefly use feedly until they started messing with their login screens some time back. See, I had a local feedly login (with randomized password etc) but they Sussed out it was a google workspace enabled account/domain and would constantly try to redirect me to googles oath. I moved to miniflux and love it. Easy to manage and super lightweight. The only “feature” I wish it had was a “mark all items older than 1 day as read”. You can mark all as read. And you can inverse your sort date and expand how many articles are paginated to mark large swaths as read. But a simple button to do some cleaning if I hadn’t read feeds in a week (and likely wouldn’t care for week old content) would be great. Still is amazing overall and even that is a nitpick. In fact I donated a bit to the maintainer just this month.

flkiwi 4y ago
miniflux is great. I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service, but it would be super-nice to be able to enter a youtube username (for example) and have it build a feed from it, as Google is, at best, wildly inconsistent about providing youtube RSS feeds. Essentially baked-in rsshub functionality. But I'm fine running rsshub in parallel.
- croutonwagon 4y ago
  > I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service, Agree entirely. Which is why I never bothered to even ask the dev about my “nitpick”. I did try a few git repos that would do similar, but they were based on old builds of ruby and well, it didn’t go too well (and I’m not a Ruby on Rails person). That said I will just periodically purge all reads, and history, and refresh all feeds in background to keep it running smooth. It’s actually how I came to this very thread. Re: YouTube, have you tried putting in a channel URL? Miniflux is great at finding rss feeds from indirect urls. But I have noticed rss is increasingly being stripped from sites, probably in an attempt to drive actual traffic stats. I usually try to visit the external link for some sites to give them the traffic/hits. Nevertheless some of my favorite feeds like TalkingPoints Memo and The Drive have completely stripped RSS off their site, which is a shame.
- asciii 4y ago
  I just switched from Netnewswire to Miniflux and love it

flkiwi 4y ago

miniflux is great. I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service, but it would be super-nice to be able to enter a youtube username (for example) and have it build a feed from it, as Google is, at best, wildly inconsistent about providing youtube RSS feeds. Essentially baked-in rsshub functionality. But I'm fine running rsshub in parallel.

croutonwagon 4y ago
> I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service, Agree entirely. Which is why I never bothered to even ask the dev about my “nitpick”. I did try a few git repos that would do similar, but they were based on old builds of ruby and well, it didn’t go too well (and I’m not a Ruby on Rails person). That said I will just periodically purge all reads, and history, and refresh all feeds in background to keep it running smooth. It’s actually how I came to this very thread. Re: YouTube, have you tried putting in a channel URL? Miniflux is great at finding rss feeds from indirect urls. But I have noticed rss is increasingly being stripped from sites, probably in an attempt to drive actual traffic stats. I usually try to visit the external link for some sites to give them the traffic/hits. Nevertheless some of my favorite feeds like TalkingPoints Memo and The Drive have completely stripped RSS off their site, which is a shame.
asciii 4y ago
I just switched from Netnewswire to Miniflux and love it