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Looks great, and I like the simple, no-frills/IAPs model of this. Any chance you could integrate with RSS aggregators, like FreshRSS, miniflux, ttrss or any of

by sphars 3y ago

Looks great, and I like the simple, no-frills/IAPs model of this. Any chance you could integrate with RSS aggregators, like FreshRSS, miniflux, ttrss or any of the other self-hosted aggregators? I use FreshRSS and I like having my feeds synced no matter what device I view it on. The Android clients for FreshRSS[0] are a little lacking IMO or a bit out of date so it'd be great to see something new. [0]: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS#apis--native-apps https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS#apis--native-apps

StreamSphere 3y ago
To be honest, it's something I'm less familiar with and at the moment I've mostly given priority to something local. I'll take a closer look and see what the possibilities are.
- talhah 3y ago
  I'd recommend you to look at Fever API since alot of different aggregators support it and its well documented. Best way to reach as many people as possible as well.
  - StreamSphere 3y ago
    Thanks, I'll look into it
    - hammyhavoc 3y ago
      If you do anything with this, I'd love to hear about it. I'm another FreshRSS mega geek.
101008 3y ago
Hacking top comment: I remember FeedBurner was a wrapper around your feed that provided stats (the famous button with the counter was a lovely thing from the best times of internet). Is there something similar now?
- aaronax 3y ago
  Anyone could implement this. The User-Agent of the feed request should include a subscriber count for each service that is downloading your feed to provide to its users. Examples: https://www.jefftk.com/p/looking-at-rss-user-agents https://www.jefftk.com/p/looking-at-rss-user-agents
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software) Unfortunately there don't seem to be many planets anymore. My YOShInOn RSS reader has a Tik-Tok like interface and trains a machine learning model to learn my preferences. The typical cycle I use it on is 2 days in which it might find 6000 feed items, it shows me 300, and I might skim another 100 on special screens that score high on certain models or that fill in gaps. It is subscribed to 110 feeds through SuperFeedr which costs about 10 cents a feed per month that's affordable at my scale. I'd like to be subscribed to 1500+ independent blogs that post once a month or once a week but I can't afford to do that with SuperFeedr so I think sometimes about retrofitting the front end but really overpolling those independent blogs 20-50x is for the birds. People could post their items to ActivityPub but barring that I really wish there were more Planets out there because it would be simple and cost effective to subscribe to 1 Planet that itself sucks in content from 50 blogs.
kohbo 3y ago
This is exactly where I am with FreshRSS. Having it "installed" as a web app is OK but not quite what I want.
- smithza 3y ago
  On iOS install ReadKit which can interact with a very nice interface to FreshRSS. I self-host FreshRSS and it works perfectly, syncing with the server so when I go to the computer, it is up-to-date with what I have opened. I do not know if ReadKit is on Android.
  - wlesieutre 3y ago
    Reeder is another nice (iOS) client with FreshRSS support https://www.reederapp.com/ https://www.reederapp.com/
    - plutokras 3y ago
      Reeder is the app I use the most. It does its job perfectly and nothing more. I love it.
      - wlesieutre 3y ago
        And iCloud sync!
Valuables1920 3y ago
+1 FreshRSS integration would be awesome, I agree that Android lacks good apps for this. I am using FreshRSS as a webapp at the moment which is okayish but a nice looking app would be much better.
- nirav72 3y ago
  I recently discovered CommaFeed and I am self-hosting it. It's somewhat similar to Google Reader in look and feel. https://github.com/Athou/commafeed https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
  - sphars 3y ago
    I've seen this one pop up recently as alternative to FreshRSS. While not as many features as FreshRSS, I like the direction CommaFeed is going. Have you tried FreshRSS and if so, how it compares?
    - nirav72 3y ago
      I've been using FreshRSS for a couple years. While it was fine, I found CommaFeed's display view mode options a lot better. It's right there under the user menu dropdown and allows for easy toggling between Compact, Detailed or Expanded view modes without going into a configuration screen or switch pages. I know all of that is possible in FreshRSS using third-party community extensions. But I just find it easy to use and closely resembles from what I remember about Google Reader. Maybe because its new and a change to what I've been using.

by sphars 3y ago

StreamSphere 3y ago

To be honest, it's something I'm less familiar with and at the moment I've mostly given priority to something local. I'll take a closer look and see what the possibilities are.

talhah 3y ago
I'd recommend you to look at Fever API since alot of different aggregators support it and its well documented. Best way to reach as many people as possible as well.
- StreamSphere 3y ago
  Thanks, I'll look into it
  - hammyhavoc 3y ago
    If you do anything with this, I'd love to hear about it. I'm another FreshRSS mega geek.

101008 3y ago

Hacking top comment: I remember FeedBurner was a wrapper around your feed that provided stats (the famous button with the counter was a lovely thing from the best times of internet). Is there something similar now?

aaronax 3y ago
Anyone could implement this. The User-Agent of the feed request should include a subscriber count for each service that is downloading your feed to provide to its users. Examples: https://www.jefftk.com/p/looking-at-rss-user-agents https://www.jefftk.com/p/looking-at-rss-user-agents
PaulHoule 3y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software) Unfortunately there don't seem to be many planets anymore. My YOShInOn RSS reader has a Tik-Tok like interface and trains a machine learning model to learn my preferences. The typical cycle I use it on is 2 days in which it might find 6000 feed items, it shows me 300, and I might skim another 100 on special screens that score high on certain models or that fill in gaps. It is subscribed to 110 feeds through SuperFeedr which costs about 10 cents a feed per month that's affordable at my scale. I'd like to be subscribed to 1500+ independent blogs that post once a month or once a week but I can't afford to do that with SuperFeedr so I think sometimes about retrofitting the front end but really overpolling those independent blogs 20-50x is for the birds. People could post their items to ActivityPub but barring that I really wish there were more Planets out there because it would be simple and cost effective to subscribe to 1 Planet that itself sucks in content from 50 blogs.

kohbo 3y ago

This is exactly where I am with FreshRSS. Having it "installed" as a web app is OK but not quite what I want.

smithza 3y ago
On iOS install ReadKit which can interact with a very nice interface to FreshRSS. I self-host FreshRSS and it works perfectly, syncing with the server so when I go to the computer, it is up-to-date with what I have opened. I do not know if ReadKit is on Android.
- wlesieutre 3y ago
  Reeder is another nice (iOS) client with FreshRSS support https://www.reederapp.com/ https://www.reederapp.com/
  - plutokras 3y ago
    Reeder is the app I use the most. It does its job perfectly and nothing more. I love it.
    - wlesieutre 3y ago
      And iCloud sync!

Valuables1920 3y ago

+1 FreshRSS integration would be awesome, I agree that Android lacks good apps for this. I am using FreshRSS as a webapp at the moment which is okayish but a nice looking app would be much better.

nirav72 3y ago
I recently discovered CommaFeed and I am self-hosting it. It's somewhat similar to Google Reader in look and feel. https://github.com/Athou/commafeed https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
- sphars 3y ago
  I've seen this one pop up recently as alternative to FreshRSS. While not as many features as FreshRSS, I like the direction CommaFeed is going. Have you tried FreshRSS and if so, how it compares?
  - nirav72 3y ago
    I've been using FreshRSS for a couple years. While it was fine, I found CommaFeed's display view mode options a lot better. It's right there under the user menu dropdown and allows for easy toggling between Compact, Detailed or Expanded view modes without going into a configuration screen or switch pages. I know all of that is possible in FreshRSS using third-party community extensions. But I just find it easy to use and closely resembles from what I remember about Google Reader. Maybe because its new and a change to what I've been using.