Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

Yeah it's why containers are beautiful. Zero hassle to replicate.

I’m selfhosting both miniflux (after being a paying customer for a while) and freshrss. Main reason for adding freshrss was to test the flaresolverr plugin. I haven’t been able to get it to work, but I kept using freshrss.

If you’re interested in how well-behaved your client is, you can read Rachel’s posts.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/29/score/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/08/02/fs/

Sadly, I'm another one on thunderbird email client.

It's not great, but it generally works.

My major complaint is that articles are not locally stored, so if the online article goes away, its just gone.

I found this ironic, given that as an email client, a major function is local storage of messages.

Feedbin as a backend and Reeder Classic on Mac and iOS for Reading. I'm pretty satisfied with that setup.

One does not really need a backend, but I have far too many feeds, plus Feedbin has a email feature which transforms newsletters into feeds. Also nice: Since this year there is a feature for broken feeds: Feedbin does some URL spelunking as to find a different URL on the same domain.

I use Reeder Classic instead of last years "New Reeder" because they have different paradigms: Classic has the bookmark folder with numbers structure, whereas the new Reeder has timeline/River of News paradigm without read/unread bits. That works for social media, but not for my case of subscribing to blogs which publish seldom. The author has promised to keep Reeder Classic current for the time being. Fingers crossed.

If Reeder Classic goes dead I either look into Unread or NetNewswire. The latter would be a homecoming – NNW was my first Feedreader back in 2003 or so. If Feedbin goes dead, I'd look maybe into a self-hosted backend or go backend-less.

Miniflux