Ask HN: How do you RSS? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by hombre_fatal » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:15 PM UTC

I recently got back into RSS and have been using (free) NetNewsWire on macOS/AppStore (https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire).

Though RSS clients in 2020 really need to be scraping the origin website. 50% of my feeds are just one-liner blurbs.

RSS clients that just do RSS feel anachronistic. I've been browsing some other solutions, but the modern client really should be a hub that can turn any website into a feed.

Someone linked Fraidycat which is on the right path, objective-wise.

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by karlicoss » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

markandrewj wrote: post #12

Anyone have recommendations for an Android RSS reader?

I like FeedMe -- clean and functional interface, supports offline caching, works with common RSS providers too (e.g. I use it with Feedbin) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.fee...

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by neonate » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

I specifically installed Waterfox so I could keep using SageRSS. It's ancient, but I've never found anything else that comes close to being as good. People have made modern copies, but they got subtle things like font sizes and preview windows wrong so I found that they all fell in an uncanny valley for me.

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by nikivi » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

I read most blogs with Reeder (over 1000 blogs). Top blogs are in 1. folder, the rest are in 2. folder.

Here is an export of all the subscriptions (stored with Inoreader): https://gist.github.com/nikitavoloboev/63b5d2418122fcd6949d8...

How I use Reeder: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by jnamaya » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:17 PM UTC

I use Tiny Tiny RSS https://tt-rss.org/

screenshot: https://snipboard.io/wb27CO.jpg

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by nickthegreek » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:18 PM UTC

vroomik wrote: post #14

Moved to inoreader - free tier for up to 150 feeds, works on mobile too

Another vote for inoreader. I glady pay inoreader at a higher level than features that I need in order to help ensure I never go thru a google reader debacle again. Inoreader also integrates in facebook pages, twitter accounts and youtube subscriptions to your RSS list.

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by chenxiaolong » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:23 PM UTC

I use the Feedly web UI on desktop and NetNewsWire (which is open source) on iOS. I'm not a huge fan of the Feedly web UI because it doesn't support scraping the source page for the full article text. Too many of my RSS feeds only include the first paragraph or even just the subtitle.

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by ragebol » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:24 PM UTC

I use netvibes.com and have been for I don't know how long.

My dashboard there has some 8-ish tabs for different topics I follow, each with ca. 6 feeds.

I can mark each feed as read or a whole tab at once. Each tab has a counter of how much new stuff it has, so I can get a tiny sliver of excitement when there is some news about topic x.

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by agazso » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

After I stopped using FB I missed a mobile news reader app that works without having to install a server or create an account.

So with some friends we created an app called Feeds https://github.com/felfele/feeds

It does everything on the phone and there is no ads or tracking whatsoever. You can also mute content with keywords.

It is open-source and currently in open beta for iOS and Android.

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

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Post by mdrachuk » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

Reeder + Feedbin