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An open source Google Reader replacement: Sismics Reader
- astrojams 13y agoAn RSS reader that won't use the "j" and "K" keys to iterate forward and backwards through the articles is useless to me.
- alex_doom 13y agoRight? To me that's the only reason I stayed with Google for so long, key commands to quickly jump through several hundred items.
- codereflection 13y agoAgreed. However - pull request.
- jzelinskie 13y agoThis looks pretty promising. Judging from the demo, they have the UI close enough. They need to offer it as a service, though. I like that I have the freedom to run my own server, but I really don't want to have to bother in practice.
- abrowne 13y agoI agree. This — service plus open source — is the model for my Google Reader replacement of choice, FeedHQ [1]. [1]: http://feedhq.org/ http://feedhq.org/
- phillmv 13y agoDo they have a demo up anywhere?
- abrowne 13y agoNot that I've seen, but there is a 30-day free trial, no credit card needed.
- Numberwang 13y agoWhat is it with every new site developed by HN:ers. No screenshots and required signup to learn more.
- abrowne 13y agoHere are a couple really quick screenshots. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see. Unread view, one unread post: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/611024/feedhq/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-26%20at%201.28.42%20PM.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/611024/feedhq/Screen%20S... Post view: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/611024/feedhq/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-26%20at%201.28.50%20PM.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/611024/feedhq/Screen%20S... [edit: moved files in my dropbox]
- abrowne 13y agoJust to clarify: I didn't create FeedHQ, I'm just a happy user. "My X of choice" ≈ "My favorite X".
- gyaresu 13y agoSorry about posting here. Couldn't find a bug report link on your website: wheezy/sid (Really Mint Linux but whatever) openjdk-7-jre:i386 $ sudo dpkg -i reader-1.1.1.deb dpkg: error processing reader-1.1.1.deb (--install): parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'reader': error in Version string '${reader.version}': version number does not start with digit Errors were encountered while processing: reader-1.1.1.deb Hope that helps.
- Jendib 13y agoThank you, I have just fix the issue on Debian packaging
- platz 13y agoI like the decisions so far! On a pure style/preference note, I prefer content over chrome to an almost absurd degree - the margins around the individual posts could be tighter maybe?
- Jendib 13y agoSure, there is a theming system, so you can fully customize the CSS
- abrowne 13y agoLooks good, and I like the mobile web view. Key missing feature for me: oldest-first view. [Edit]: Also, keyboard shortcuts (most important for me: jk for next/previous).
- Jendib 13y agoKeyboard shortcuts should be in the next release (there is an issue about it on GitHub)
- webwanderings 13y agoHow is this a desktop client and mobile at the same time?
- Jendib 13y agoWe use CSS media queries to adapt the UI with the screen size
- dubcanada 13y agoGood old Java! Though I personally would never want what is suppose to be a slim low memory footprint application (reading text) to be ran by Java. But that's more of a personal objection, and has nothing to do with the actual product.
- webwanderings 13y agoBut where does the feeds reside, local or remote?
- Jendib 13y agoThe feeds are remotely synchronized on the server, so you will see the same since whatever your client is (mobile or desktop)
- webwanderings 13y agoOkay interesting. But it currently doesn't seem to have all the bells and whistles for a local or a web client. Something tells me my memory usage will shot up if I attempt to import thousands of feeds into it. Besides, the fetching doesn't appear to be near the real-time (HN rss it pulled in for me, were at least an hour or more delayed). Anyways, my installation on the windows went well. For now I'm back to testing InoReader.
- Spittie 13y agoSeems good, I like it. I might try it later on my server (hopefully it's not too heavy on the system, since I'm going to try it in a small vps). But it's still another reader that I'll probably not use. Why? Because since there isn't an open standard for RSS reader I can't use it with the client I want. I'm not saying it's your fault, as it sure isn't. But it's sad that we didn't learn this from the death of Google Reader. There were some talk about creating an open standard right after it's death, but nothing major came out of it. This is also why I'm still using Google Reader, because every RSS reader out of there doesn't have either a mobile client or a website that I like. If there were an open standard, I could use the mobile client I want, the desktop client I want, and rely on the backend for synchronization and reading on computer without a desktop client.
- Jendib 13y agoThis is true there isn't a standard for RSS feeds synchronizer, but Sismics Reader provide an open JSON API, so you can write whatever client you want, on any platform you prefer
- Spittie 13y agoThis is great, but every developer has to include your API to get it's app working with your service. And he has to do it for every service that he want to support (Feedly, FeedBin, Feever, NewsBlur...). My rant was not about Sismics not providing an API, but the lack of a standard open API for RSS readers. Beside that, Sismics seems pretty great.
- martingordon 13y agoI'm down to wire for this reason as well. I use Reeder everywhere and no other client has come close to matching it.
- jeena 13y agoHere is someone who started thinking about a protocol for RSS sync: https://github.com/ArturoVM/pond/wiki/API-Documentation https://github.com/ArturoVM/pond/wiki/API-Documentation
- donretag 13y agoAn RSS reader without synchronization is not a Google Reader replacement.
- idm 13y agoAccording to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5947276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5947276 feeds are synced by the server
- richardlblair 13y agoGood thing it's on github. I'm sure pull requests are welcome :P
- Jendib 13y agoOf course they are :)
- tracker1 13y agoMy initial thought was a portable version of this could be useful... I don't use thunderbird much these days, but for several years had my tbird profile symlinked to a dropbox directory. The only irritation was the notices from dropbox if I accidentally left tbird open at another location. I imagine the same or similar could work here too.
- shmerl 13y agoSomeone suggested using TinyTinyRSS + Liferea.
- jeena 13y agoI wasn't able to get Liferea to work with TTRSS, and I really tried :-/. Therefor I wrote one myself but it has only the possibility to show posts, no list or anything because I never used that http://jabs.nu/feedthemonkey http://jabs.nu/feedthemonkey I assume most of the people will not be comfortable with it.
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- Semaphor 13y agoLooks nice, just ran the installer on my Windows machine and besides needing 3 restarts for it to finally work, it is too buggy to use. Importing my feeds works for 5 of them for a short while, after getting the items for the 5th feed it reverts to thinking I have no feeds at all.
- richardlblair 13y agoThis is awesome. To those listing the faults: It's on github. Fork it, fix it, push it, pull (request) it.
- jeena 13y agoA Google Reader replacement for me is some sync-server with which I can sync read/unread between a native feed reader on my iPhone, my ThinkPad, my Android tablet and my iMac.
- tracker1 13y agoWith all the cloud DBs available... one would think you could simply target one of them as a platform (say mongodb) and that you could define a set of collections/tables/account to use. You could get quite a bit of data in a free account level with couchbase or mongolab. You wouldn't even need to store the full article, just the feeds, urls, dtm and read status... you could do more, but it could work. For that matter, one could come up with such a "MyData" system that works with the DropBox API or something similar.
- jeena 13y agoI would like just a protocol for which I or basically anyone could implement a server and a client, kind of like SMTP and IMAP for email (but as a REST service or something easier)
- swanson 13y agoAnd as soon as Reeder (iOS/Mac), Press (Android), gReader (Android) and whatever Windows people use agree on a common API and all support adding your own server URL, then it will be possible. The problem is that all of the clients seem to want to hitch up with another free 3rd party service :(
- jeena 13y agoYeah I hoped someone would come up with such a protocol, I myself been writing about that last year already, but sadly 3rd party service it seems to become.
- handelaar 13y agoInstalled on Windows. OK. Presents a login prompt. Accepts no username that exists on the system. /uninstall