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Re: Ask HN: Which feed reader do you recommend trying?

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If you're up for it, try riverpy: https://github.com/edavis/riverpy Here's a demo: http://river-demo.ericdavis.org/ The README is a bit out of date now, but it all works. I've been using it as my sole RSS reader for the past few months now.

I really don't want to self-host. But, looks neat anyways!

Re: Ask HN: Which feed reader do you recommend trying?

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My eccentric self-hosting no-server-needed homebrew open-source solution since google reader died: http://github.com/akkartik/spew . Since I suck at UI, it has none. Instead it just leverages firefox UI for everything.

Do you have any screenshots of it in action? Does it work cross-platform?

I haven't tried it on anything but ubuntu. Since it's firefox SDK I would hope it's cross-platform. Only anecdotal experience I heard was troubles with debian's iceweasel.

I considered screenshots but it's hard to show anything cool since it's all vanilla firefox UI. Here's an attempt: http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN. Is it helpful?

Re: Ask HN: Which feed reader do you recommend trying?

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I host my own Fever[1] service on nearlyfreespeech.net. Fever has a UI to access feeds and some apps, like Reeder on iOS, can pull from Fever accounts. I've had my Fever service running a few weeks before Google announced Reader was going away. I haven't had any problems with Fever.It costs me a total of $2 to $1 per month to host. Setting it up was very easy and the instructions are very detailed.

[1]:http://feedafever.com/

Re: Ask HN: Which feed reader do you recommend trying?

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The Old Reader: http://theoldreader.com/ I've been using it since Google Reader shut down and happily signed up for the premium account (allows for over 100 feeds, among other benefits) when they started imposing a limit on the number of feeds.

Same here, this is closest to the good old Google Reader experience, with no bullshit added.
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