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I am disappointed no one talks about hosting their own. Mod me down if you want, proud user of Tiny Tiny RSS, which comes with a Web UI, a mobile app (costs mon

by 616c 14y ago

I am disappointed no one talks about hosting their own. Mod me down if you want, proud user of Tiny Tiny RSS, which comes with a Web UI, a mobile app (costs money, but still cheap), and a pretty cool API for a simple PHP app. Some of us learned our lesson, and will not moved to another crappy "service" that will shut down in a few years. Just like I do not host my blog on Posterous. https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS

Semaphor 14y ago
> Honorable mentions this week go out to TinyTinyRSS, a self-hosted RSS reading app that allows you to grab your feeds on any system, as long as you have a web host and you're comfortable installing and setting it up. The process actually isn't that difficult, and full disclosure, I'm thinking about doing this myself. Since there's a Tiny Tiny RSS Android client to go with it, it's worth a look. Plus, it's free and open source, and at the end of the day you own your feeds and your data, and it won't shut down on you. That said, I tried it and found it annoying to work with as well as incredibly slow. I paid for Newsblur and if they ever go down I'll jump into the relatively complicated installation process on my server. edit: And of course there are other options: Fever [1], the hopefully soon finished News [2] app for ownCloud [3] and Newsblur [4] is open source as well. [1] http://www.feedafever.com/ http://www.feedafever.com/ [2] http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=479 http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=479 [3] http://owncloud.org/ http://owncloud.org/ [4] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
- maguay 14y ago
  I love Fever, and just switched to it. I included it on my own roundup at Web.AppStorm: http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/rssfeeds/google-reader-is-dead-heres-what-you-need-to-replace-google-reader/ http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/rssfeeds/google-reader-is-d.... I think people don't mention self-hosted options as much because most people would immediately think it was too much trouble to run their own service. For someone hosting their own site already, though, it's incredibly simple to host something like this yourself. Surprising more people don't.
  - Semaphor 14y ago
    The lack of a trial gives Fever a big barrier I think. And from what I've seen in the video it has no way to list feeds in a minimalistic way.
- dsr_ 14y ago
  I tried it and found it quite reasonable, even running it from my desktop. Is it as fast as Google Reader? Not quite, but it's not slow enough to be annoying, and certainly not "incredibly slow". Much easier to install than Newsblur. Disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin, not a developer. AMD 2 core 5600+, 8GB, one spinning iron disk with an SSD cache via flashcache, Debian stable, Postgres and Apache and PHP as Debian provides. Really nothing fancy.
  - Semaphor 14y ago
    For me it was slow enough to be annoying. Though I only installed it local (Windows) on XAMPP and not on my VPS. But considering that my machine isn't too weak (i3, 16gb ram, SSD) I expected more. Pretty much every click took 1-2 seconds.
    - EvanAnderson 14y ago
      I'm running a 6 year old fork of tt-rss on a machine w/ specs that are too embarrassing to post and I get reasonable performance. I use a Postgres back-end and I spent some time tweaking indexes to get it to perform better. I haven't kept up with the mainline tt-rss distribution-- perhaps it's become crufted-up. The older releases definitely could work well even on modest hardware.
officemonkey 14y ago
It's not of interest to HN because the only thing you can sell related to Tiny Tiny RSS is a server to run it on, and the server game is for chumps.
- StavrosK 14y ago
  No, it's because running things on a server is expensive.
  - eertami 14y ago
    I pay £10/year for my VPS, I think I spend more on domains. There are many cheap boxes[1] available out there for exactly this kind of purpose. [1]: http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/
    - StavrosK 14y ago
      Yes, but my time is much, much more expensive. I can't spend hours installing and configuring that stuff, especially when exporting my feeds is easy and fast.
      - officemonkey 14y ago
        Installing and configuring is time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be. A teenager can set up and run a minecraft server in 10 min. Calibre and Plex have built-in servers on my home machine to serve ebooks and movies. Running your own RSS reader server could be as simple as opening an app on your home machine.

by 616c 14y ago

Semaphor 14y ago

> Honorable mentions this week go out to TinyTinyRSS, a self-hosted RSS reading app that allows you to grab your feeds on any system, as long as you have a web host and you're comfortable installing and setting it up. The process actually isn't that difficult, and full disclosure, I'm thinking about doing this myself. Since there's a Tiny Tiny RSS Android client to go with it, it's worth a look. Plus, it's free and open source, and at the end of the day you own your feeds and your data, and it won't shut down on you. That said, I tried it and found it annoying to work with as well as incredibly slow. I paid for Newsblur and if they ever go down I'll jump into the relatively complicated installation process on my server. edit: And of course there are other options: Fever [1], the hopefully soon finished News [2] app for ownCloud [3] and Newsblur [4] is open source as well. [1] http://www.feedafever.com/ http://www.feedafever.com/ [2] http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=479 http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=479 [3] http://owncloud.org/ http://owncloud.org/ [4] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

maguay 14y ago
I love Fever, and just switched to it. I included it on my own roundup at Web.AppStorm: http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/rssfeeds/google-reader-is-dead-heres-what-you-need-to-replace-google-reader/ http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/rssfeeds/google-reader-is-d.... I think people don't mention self-hosted options as much because most people would immediately think it was too much trouble to run their own service. For someone hosting their own site already, though, it's incredibly simple to host something like this yourself. Surprising more people don't.
- Semaphor 14y ago
  The lack of a trial gives Fever a big barrier I think. And from what I've seen in the video it has no way to list feeds in a minimalistic way.
dsr_ 14y ago
I tried it and found it quite reasonable, even running it from my desktop. Is it as fast as Google Reader? Not quite, but it's not slow enough to be annoying, and certainly not "incredibly slow". Much easier to install than Newsblur. Disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin, not a developer. AMD 2 core 5600+, 8GB, one spinning iron disk with an SSD cache via flashcache, Debian stable, Postgres and Apache and PHP as Debian provides. Really nothing fancy.
- Semaphor 14y ago
  For me it was slow enough to be annoying. Though I only installed it local (Windows) on XAMPP and not on my VPS. But considering that my machine isn't too weak (i3, 16gb ram, SSD) I expected more. Pretty much every click took 1-2 seconds.
  - EvanAnderson 14y ago
    I'm running a 6 year old fork of tt-rss on a machine w/ specs that are too embarrassing to post and I get reasonable performance. I use a Postgres back-end and I spent some time tweaking indexes to get it to perform better. I haven't kept up with the mainline tt-rss distribution-- perhaps it's become crufted-up. The older releases definitely could work well even on modest hardware.

officemonkey 14y ago

It's not of interest to HN because the only thing you can sell related to Tiny Tiny RSS is a server to run it on, and the server game is for chumps.

StavrosK 14y ago
No, it's because running things on a server is expensive.
- eertami 14y ago
  I pay £10/year for my VPS, I think I spend more on domains. There are many cheap boxes[1] available out there for exactly this kind of purpose. [1]: http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/
  - StavrosK 14y ago
    Yes, but my time is much, much more expensive. I can't spend hours installing and configuring that stuff, especially when exporting my feeds is easy and fast.
    - officemonkey 14y ago
      Installing and configuring is time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be. A teenager can set up and run a minecraft server in 10 min. Calibre and Plex have built-in servers on my home machine to serve ebooks and movies. Running your own RSS reader server could be as simple as opening an app on your home machine.