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yarr is a fantastic selfhosted reader

• bityard 1y ago
  This is what I'm using right now. I like that it has a built-in "reader mode" where it fetches the target article from the website and removes all the crud. But I do have a wishlist of creature-comfort items that would probably never make it in: * I go days/weeks without reading anything and trying to find out where I left off is a big pain. There doesn't seem to be a way to sort chonologicaly (only reverse). * The only difference between read/unread items is a tiny gray dot in front of the article title. (I'd rather have the unread items stand out more from the read ones, with a different background, bold text, etc.) * It would be nice to have a per-feed setting of whether to show the article as it appears in the RSS feed, or go fetch it from the web in reader mode.
  • pierrec 1y ago
    Counterpoint, I've been using yarr almost daily for about a year and I can't say I share any of your wishlist items. I love how simple and elegant it is, and anything that makes the UI more complex or distracting would only take away from that. I run it on a VPS so I can access it from phone+laptop and it looks great everywhere. I've only "augmented" it by throwing a basic rss bridge on the same server (well, the bridge is really single-file python script that generates rss feeds from other sources).