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Sounds like you might like my reader: https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/swanson/stringer. No social features by design and if you've got a

by swanson 13y ago

Sounds like you might like my reader: https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/swanson/stringer. No social features by design and if you've got a heroku account you can have it deployed in under 5 min.

nuttendorfer 13y ago
Now this does look quite nice. I'm a Reeder user and the current plan for me is to transition to Feedbin once Google Reader shuts down. The Reeder developer has mentioned that he plans to add more services to the application but I don't know based on what. If Stringer is compatible at some point with Reeder you've got yourself a happy customer. If things weren't so unclear concerning the APIs etc that the Reeder developer wants to use I would have started working on a patch right now myself. The Feedbin API is documented here: https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api#readme https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api#readme so that could be a good reference point.
- swanson 13y ago
  I agree 100%. I've started to clone the Fever API (a very strange beast...) so that you could use ReederApp - but I think the FeedBin API is much better so I will probably add that as well. Someone has also started a "standard" feed API format: https://github.com/redwallhp/SOFA https://github.com/redwallhp/SOFA - would be nice if some of the client apps would support this.
BillSaysThis 13y ago
Will Stringer get a two column/three pane view (e.g., similar to Mail.app, NetNewsWire) any time soon?
- swanson 13y ago
  Not likely. Through you are welcome to fork and hack it all you want. :)
  - BillSaysThis 13y ago
    How about a skinning/theming system? Would make this far simpler and less fork-y.
abrowne 13y ago
I just got around to trying Stringer. Great job. I've said this before, but right now, this is my favorite! First, I can confirm the install on Heroku was indeed only a 5-minute job for me — an intermediate-advanced OS X/Linux command-line user, but not (yet) a developer, and not a previous Heroku user. I need to use it for a few days to make sure, but at first glance I love the simple interface. It's like Google Reader's full-screen mode, but with a decently narrow reading column. The font size and line-height aren't my absolute favorite, but since I'm self-hosting I can just change the CSS! (I will have to learn how to update the stylesheets and still be able to keep updated to the current version. Maybe a good time to learn git?) Mobile web works OK and hopefully will get better: https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7 https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7
abrowne 13y ago
I just got around to trying Stringer. Great job. I've said this before, but right now, this is my favorite! First, I can confirm the install on Heroku was indeed only a 5-minute job for me — an intermediate-advanced OS X/Linux command-line user, but not (yet) a developer, and not a previous Heroku user. I need to use it for a few days to make sure, but at first glance I love the simple interface. It's like Google Reader's full-screen mode, but with a decently narrow reading column. The font size and line-height aren't my absolute favorite, but since I'm self-hosting I can just change the CSS! (I will have to learn how to update the stylesheets and still be able to keep updated to the current version. Maybe a good time to learn git?) Mobile web works OK and hopefully will get better: https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7 https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7

by swanson 13y ago

nuttendorfer 13y ago

Now this does look quite nice. I'm a Reeder user and the current plan for me is to transition to Feedbin once Google Reader shuts down. The Reeder developer has mentioned that he plans to add more services to the application but I don't know based on what. If Stringer is compatible at some point with Reeder you've got yourself a happy customer. If things weren't so unclear concerning the APIs etc that the Reeder developer wants to use I would have started working on a patch right now myself. The Feedbin API is documented here: https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api#readme https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api#readme so that could be a good reference point.

swanson 13y ago
I agree 100%. I've started to clone the Fever API (a very strange beast...) so that you could use ReederApp - but I think the FeedBin API is much better so I will probably add that as well. Someone has also started a "standard" feed API format: https://github.com/redwallhp/SOFA https://github.com/redwallhp/SOFA - would be nice if some of the client apps would support this.

BillSaysThis 13y ago

Will Stringer get a two column/three pane view (e.g., similar to Mail.app, NetNewsWire) any time soon?

swanson 13y ago
Not likely. Through you are welcome to fork and hack it all you want. :)
- BillSaysThis 13y ago
  How about a skinning/theming system? Would make this far simpler and less fork-y.

abrowne 13y ago

I just got around to trying Stringer. Great job. I've said this before, but right now, this is my favorite! First, I can confirm the install on Heroku was indeed only a 5-minute job for me — an intermediate-advanced OS X/Linux command-line user, but not (yet) a developer, and not a previous Heroku user. I need to use it for a few days to make sure, but at first glance I love the simple interface. It's like Google Reader's full-screen mode, but with a decently narrow reading column. The font size and line-height aren't my absolute favorite, but since I'm self-hosting I can just change the CSS! (I will have to learn how to update the stylesheets and still be able to keep updated to the current version. Maybe a good time to learn git?) Mobile web works OK and hopefully will get better: https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7 https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7

abrowne 13y ago