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I'm not moving to another reader so my primary source of news will disappear overnight which I think is a shock I'm not ready to take. Come June I'll likely go

by ancarda 13y ago

I'm not moving to another reader so my primary source of news will disappear overnight which I think is a shock I'm not ready to take. Come June I'll likely go to reader.google.com several times, if not just by mistake or out of habit. Unless I haven't looked hard enough, I want: * Reader software that can easily install onto a LNMP stack * Runs in the browser (Desktop & Mobile) * Has a UI that's extremely similar to Reader - including the inbox system! * Is FLOSSy (No license preference) Why? * Prevent this from ever happening again (no vendor lock in!). It's also free. * An app is fine but I have reader set to my homepage - it literally is my news source. * Unlike others, I prefer the inbox system. Too many feeds? Unsubscribe. * See point #1. Any suggestions?

Numberwang 13y ago
I suggest lowering your expectations.
- ancarda 13y ago
  PHP-based RSS reader with a similar UI? I don't really see that to be asking too much. How low should I go then?
khass 13y ago
Tiny Tiny Rss. You can use some css themes to have tiny tiny rss to look like google reader. I tried fever for a while but stuck with Tiny tiny, for me it works better due to the customization options and lower server footprint.
- rogerbinns 13y ago
  I also moved to tt-rss and it works well a few niggles aside. About the worst thing I can say about it is that the main developer is rather abrasive.
  - dsr_ 13y ago
    I'm also happy with tt-rss. I considered myself a heavy user of Reader with about 500 feeds. The only negative I'm currently experiencing is that the mobile web version has been phased out by trunk, and the very good looking alternate tends to crash my phone's browser every few articles. Since there are multiple native Android clients, I'm not all that concerned.
    - rogerbinns 13y ago
      I use the forked version of the Android client and it works very well. I think I tried the mobile web site briefly but don't really care since I do my main reading in a web browser on a desktop/laptop, and the rest on tablets which work the same and then a tiny minority of the time on a small screened mobile device.
  - codva 13y ago
    I moved to TT-RSS immediately upon the GReader shutdown news. I'm perfectly happy with it.
- EvanAnderson 13y ago
  Another vote for tt-rss here, too. I use my own 2006 vintate fork (I decided I couldn't handle trying to contribute patches back to the developer) and haven't kept current with the mainline code, but it has served me very well.
jancborchardt 13y ago
ownCloud News: http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=580 http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=580 * ownCloud is mainly for LAMP but also works on Nginx (which I presume is the N): http://owncloud.org http://owncloud.org * it’s a web app, and there are several mobile clients: https://github.com/owncloud/news#mobile-clients https://github.com/owncloud/news#mobile-clients * simple UI. What do you mean by »Inbox system«? (If it’s »unread items«, we have that) * it’s open source, AGPL v3, code up at https://github.com/owncloud/news https://github.com/owncloud/news * Plus: We have an API so anyone can code apps for it: https://github.com/owncloud/news/wiki/API-1.2 https://github.com/owncloud/news/wiki/API-1.2 What do you think?
- ancarda 13y ago
  That looks very good actually. The best benefit is it looks like I can also store files and whatnot. Perhaps I can move several services to ownCloud. I'll take a look.
  - jancborchardt 13y ago
    Yep. If you have any feedback or want to contribute please join in. :) All our stuff is at http://github.com/owncloud http://github.com/owncloud
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    - ancarda 13y ago
      Hey, it took me close to an hour to setup ownCloud (it's tricky to get it working correctly on Nginx). Now that the dust has settled, it's really nice. Thank you for making this.
      - jancborchardt 13y ago
ElbertF 13y ago
It doesn't meet all your requirements but try http://Readable.cc http://Readable.cc. You can sign up on the website or host it yourself. https://github.com/ElbertF/Readable.cc https://github.com/ElbertF/Readable.cc
zeckalpha 13y ago
https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

by ancarda 13y ago

Numberwang 13y ago

I suggest lowering your expectations.

ancarda 13y ago
PHP-based RSS reader with a similar UI? I don't really see that to be asking too much. How low should I go then?

khass 13y ago

Tiny Tiny Rss. You can use some css themes to have tiny tiny rss to look like google reader. I tried fever for a while but stuck with Tiny tiny, for me it works better due to the customization options and lower server footprint.

rogerbinns 13y ago
I also moved to tt-rss and it works well a few niggles aside. About the worst thing I can say about it is that the main developer is rather abrasive.
- dsr_ 13y ago
  I'm also happy with tt-rss. I considered myself a heavy user of Reader with about 500 feeds. The only negative I'm currently experiencing is that the mobile web version has been phased out by trunk, and the very good looking alternate tends to crash my phone's browser every few articles. Since there are multiple native Android clients, I'm not all that concerned.
  - rogerbinns 13y ago
    I use the forked version of the Android client and it works very well. I think I tried the mobile web site briefly but don't really care since I do my main reading in a web browser on a desktop/laptop, and the rest on tablets which work the same and then a tiny minority of the time on a small screened mobile device.
- codva 13y ago
  I moved to TT-RSS immediately upon the GReader shutdown news. I'm perfectly happy with it.
EvanAnderson 13y ago
Another vote for tt-rss here, too. I use my own 2006 vintate fork (I decided I couldn't handle trying to contribute patches back to the developer) and haven't kept current with the mainline code, but it has served me very well.

jancborchardt 13y ago

ownCloud News: http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=580 http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=580 * ownCloud is mainly for LAMP but also works on Nginx (which I presume is the N): http://owncloud.org http://owncloud.org * it’s a web app, and there are several mobile clients: https://github.com/owncloud/news#mobile-clients https://github.com/owncloud/news#mobile-clients * simple UI. What do you mean by »Inbox system«? (If it’s »unread items«, we have that) * it’s open source, AGPL v3, code up at https://github.com/owncloud/news https://github.com/owncloud/news * Plus: We have an API so anyone can code apps for it: https://github.com/owncloud/news/wiki/API-1.2 https://github.com/owncloud/news/wiki/API-1.2 What do you think?

ancarda 13y ago
That looks very good actually. The best benefit is it looks like I can also store files and whatnot. Perhaps I can move several services to ownCloud. I'll take a look.
- jancborchardt 13y ago
  Yep. If you have any feedback or want to contribute please join in. :) All our stuff is at http://github.com/owncloud http://github.com/owncloud
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  - ancarda 13y ago
    Hey, it took me close to an hour to setup ownCloud (it's tricky to get it working correctly on Nginx). Now that the dust has settled, it's really nice. Thank you for making this.
    - jancborchardt 13y ago

ElbertF 13y ago

It doesn't meet all your requirements but try http://Readable.cc http://Readable.cc. You can sign up on the website or host it yourself. https://github.com/ElbertF/Readable.cc https://github.com/ElbertF/Readable.cc

zeckalpha 13y ago

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur