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The End of Tt-Rss.org
- kevinsky 1y agoLiked the product. The developer's blog post sounds they feel burned out and not appreciated. Might be due to their take it or leave it attitude.
- altairprime 1y agoAppreciation isn’t the certain source of joy for hobby projects that most users think it ought to be. If you’re intrinsically motivated enough to create something like this, then you’re intrinsically bored by it, too. Appreciation does not necessarily have any bearing on that, no matter that your users hope otherwise, especially in fields like tech where neurodivergence is a local norm. May their departure serve as a beacon for others to leave behind the unrewarding.
- ocdtrekkie 1y agoThe developer of this project makes being a jerk to everyone who talks to him his personal mission. People asking for support are insulted on his forum... pretty routinely. I use a fork of TTRSS daily, it's good software, but I strongly discourage anyone ever talk to upstream.
- 4oo4 1y agowhat's the fork that you use?
- ocdtrekkie 1y agoIt's packaged for Sandstorm, so it's not a fork that will necessarily "continue development" or anything. It actually currently tracks to a couple year old version of TTRSS.
- rpdillon 1y agoFox always was an interesting personality, and this post seems a fitting tone to close out the project. I really like tt-rss, and self-hosted it for years after Google Reader's untimely demise, but switched to FreshRSS some years back, and haven't looked back. I will clone tt-rss's repo, though. It has more features in some ways, and is worth preserving.
- aboardRat4 1y agoTtrss misses the point really. It's yet again rewriting a mail reader interface, which is hard and seldom useful. What we really need is a way to fetch walled garden and rss content into a maildir, and then our mail clients will do the rest.
- frumiousirc 1y ago> What we really need is a way to fetch walled garden and rss content into a maildir, and then our mail clients will do the rest. Inspired by your comment I tried blending together rss2email, Maildir, notmuch and gnus. While it all "works" the RSS feed content comes through in markdown'ish (?) markup. The flowers are out of the garden but they are all a bit wilted.
- aboardRat4 1y agoThere is rss-bridge. It's more advanced. But actually it's not possible to avoid selenium, I'm afraid. For gnus, we'd have to render markdown into html.
- pabs3 1y agoCheck out forum-dl: https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl
- Xiol 1y agoFunnily enough I set up a self-hosted RSS reader last night and TTRSS was one of the options I considered, having used it years ago. Feel like I dodged a bullet picking an alternative! (Settled on Miniflux)
- BoredPositron 1y agoI used it for ten years after google reader got nuked and wanted to give something back. Wrote some bugfixes and one or two new features. It was not a pleasant experience. Switched to fresh and found a great community... I'll leave it at that. Sad to see it go but more because of nostalgia than anything else.
- devilkin 1y agoThere's a fork: https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss