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Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

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Post by hutattedonmyarm »

rswerve wrote: post #104
hutattedonmyarm wrote: post #51

Reeder on iOS / macOS: https://reederapp.com/classic/ With Inoreader as backend: https://www.inoreader.com/

Another vote for Reeder. Very nice app and note that you can use iCloud as the backend and don’t need a separate service.

True, but I want to use RSS on non-Apple devices as well. So I was looking for something with a web interface. That’s also why I’m still using the classic version

Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

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Post by akkartik »

moustachehedron wrote: post #20

I use the Feedbro [1] extension in the browser and the Flym [2] app on Android. I'm quite satisfied with both. [1] https://nodetics.com/feedbro/ [2] https://github.com/FredJul/Flym

Shucks, Flym is archived. This seems to be the pattern on mobile: the good apps die young.

Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

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Post by tarasglek »

BOOSTERHIDROGEN wrote: post #94
tarasglek wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love that I can pull whole articles. I wrote https://markdown.download for llm use, but mostly ended up using it with miniflux to fetch full articles from problematic sites

Could you please share your Miniflux configuration for fetching full articles?

There is an option in feed settings:

[x] Fetch original content

But most power comes from URL rewrite rules. Here is the one I use for problematic sites:

rewrite("^(.+)$"|"https://markdown.download/$1")

Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

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Post by rtfi_of »

Elfeed on Emacs, on Linux and Windows. I tried several RSS readers for years, then, being an Emacs user myself, I gave Elfeed a go and never looked back. One key binding to open full articles in Emacs EWW (for those feeds providing only previews), and one to play media with mpv and yt-dlp. Best solution ever (for me) to get daily disenshittified web contents.

On mobile, there is nothing I like, I consider Feeder on Android the least bad.

Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

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Post by sebastienbarre »

I’ve been using the following RSS aggregators since the mid-2000s:

* Google Reader – until it was shut down.

* The Old Reader – from early 2015 until I became dissatisfied with its lack of features. I was a paying user, and while the developer was always courteous over email, no amount of feedback convinced them to add functionalities that had become standard among competitors, such as filtering by keywords.

* Bazqux – since a week after the November 2024 U.S. election. For my own mental health, I decided to filter out any news containing keywords like "Trump" or "Elon", and it has worked great so far.

How I Read My Feeds:

* On my laptop, I actually enjoy using Bazqux on the web, though I slightly customize its CSS using Stylus.

* On iOS, I use FeeddlerPro, which previously served me well when connected to my The Old Reader subscription.

Evaluations & Alternatives:

* During my search for the right RSS aggregator back in November, I evaluated Feedbin, Feedbro, Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, NewsBlur, ReadKit, and a few others.

* One bridge I haven’t crossed yet is consuming YouTube via RSS. Since every channel already has an RSS feed, this approach would allow me to filter videos by keywords as well.

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