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The problem is finding a good local, desktop based RSS reader other than thunderbird or a damn server app, especially if you’re on Windows.
Btw, what is a non-local RSS reader? I have come across multiple that RSS readers that advertise being “self-hosted” and I’m confused about that since in my mind RSS readers are simply clients that periodically query different servers for an .rss file, so I’m confused about where there is anything to host besides the host of the .rss feed.
The idea is to imitate the experience of something like Feedly, an RSS feed you can access from anywhere on any device, recommendations, all that… Which is overkill if all you want is just a simple program that queries for new posts every x hours.
What’s wrong with Thunderbird? Surely you don’t use Outlook by choice?
UI is too bloated, slow, resource hungry and I’ve had problems with displaying some feed content in the past.
Outlook
God forbid.
That’s surprising. I found it be underpowered as an RSS reader, personally. Although I am really only using it for news - I know some people who use it for videos, etc.
I know some people who use it for videos, etc.
That’s one of my problems with Thunderbid, anything that isn’t a HTML page just has loads of problems with it. In fact, most of the readers recommended above by other people suffer from the same problems, it kind of sucks.
What’s one that doesn’t suck?
Good question.
I’m yet to find something that supports notifications, handles podcasts/videos and isn’t janky as all hell or hasn’t been abandoned for a decade by now.
Feedly, Fluent Reader, NewsBlur, yarr, etc.
Thunderbird is fine, but I don’t really want to interact with my feed how I interact with email.
I’m out of the loop since I’ve been using a self hosted Miniflux, but Raven certainly is an alternative.
I’m more interested in good RSS feeds than RSS readers. Of courseI’ve got all my news in there, but I’m looking to add interesting feeds but don’t know where to look.
For websites that don’t have an RSS feed, check out RSS-bridge! https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
It generates web feeds for websites that don’t have one.
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I’ve used Feedly for years and it makes keeping with various types of news so much easier.
Me too. I went Google reader to feedly and have been there since
I’d love that it had the feature that Feeder has to fetch incomplete RSS articles and put them in a nice view… Only because of that I have used Feeder more as of lately (still Feedly is my main RSS source).
Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you’ve read in it.
What is this shitty email program they’re talking about? Sure, they can embed a 1-pixel tracking image to see when you opened the email (if you allow auto-loading images), but how would they know how much you’ve read unless some incredibly horrible email program actively sends out that data?
Most made by large corps. For example, Apple got in some hot water not too long ago for changing the way they track in Apple Mail.
Servers track sent, delivered, bounced, and blocked.
Clients phone home with opened, read, CTR, and junk status.Just… wow. I don’t even enable notifications that I’ve opened an email.
Yeah I’ve never heard of that either, and I’ve used email marketing platforms. They have a lot of analytics, but nothing anywhere near that level. (Granted, this was also back in like 2010.)
When Reddit went to shit I turned to RSS to get my daily news. After trying many different iOS apps, all of which either sucked or had a monthly fee, I came across one called feeeed.
It has become one of my favorite apps and I highly recommend it. It’s free and extremely well designed! I believe its creator also works on the Arc browser team.
NetNewsWire works great for me.
Hey, thanks… this looks clean/feels really slick.
I definitely recommend turning on List view in the settings. The default card view is okay but it only lets you see 1-2 things at a time vs 5-6.
I’m using News Explorer. One-time purchase, and syncs your feeds and read/unread status between macOS and iOS/ipadOS.
old.reddit still has RSS feeds for subreddits, if there’s anything you still want to follow there. e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/technology.rss
The lemmy community for my city is completely dead, so I follow the subreddit this way.
Hasn’t RSS support been dropping these last few years? Last I heard was that RSS was dying, though I don’t know how true that is.
Probably not technically true because podcasts use RSS
I never stopped. I went from feeds in Netscape Navigator to Google Reader to Feedly and now I self-host Miniflux.
Similar here, Google Reader -> Feedly -> selfhosted TT-RSS -> selfhosted FreshRSS
I need an android rss reader that ACTUALLY caches the articles. I use feeder and most of the time it just fetches the titles, I’ve been through every setting. “fetch full articles by default” is on for all of my feeds.
Kind of not what you’re looking for, but use rss2email to send everything as a mail to a mail address.
Love me some RSS.
I kinda gave up on rss awhile ago when it seemed like feed availability was dropping and Google dropped support. Disagree with author that the reader doesn’t matter. It can really shape your experience. Appreciate good recommendation for something that doesn’t cost $2 a month.
https://stackdiary.com/free-rss-readers/
This was pretty useful to me.
For android, I use Feeder, but I’ve also enjoyed Cappy, Neo Feed, Twine, and Nunti. Nunti is a really interesting one that uses a local, private smart algorithm to show you more of what interests you.
i think youtube still supports rss feeds
i think some channels can turn it off but most don’t.
I use the Feedbro extension right in my browser.
Any good readers for IOS that don’t require a subscription (preferably FOSS)?
