Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use? • Hacker News Board

I use (and pay) for Inoreader. I was a loyal subscriber to Feedbin for a few years but the developer made some UI changes for the worse, and then wasn't interested in feedback. After a couple of long outages, I decided to switch away.

Re: Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

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Post by unnouinceput » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 3:59 AM UTC

Found nothing that had the perfect combination of what I wanted from an RSS feeder. After like 30 tries I gave up and made my own. Best RSS feeder in the world!

Re: Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

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Post by andolanra » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 4:00 AM UTC

I've used a self-hosted version of Stringer for a while: it's a barebones single-user RSS reader with very few other features. Probably not great if you plan on following lots of feeds in different categories, but it's perfect for me: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

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Post by xelxebar » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 4:01 AM UTC

For the CLI junkies like myself, newsboat[0] is pretty nice.

[0]:https://newsboat.org/

Re: Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

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Post by sundarurfriend » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

rmykhajliw wrote: post #27

https://www.inoreader.com - suppose the best replacement after Google reader death ;(

Switched to inoreader very recently, after having been on Feedly ever since Google reader died. Honestly don't see much of a difference in terms of functionality, but the interface looks and feels somewhat better, so I'm sticking around for now.

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Post by anonzzz » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 4:08 AM UTC

This has been a process for me. I started out using TinyTinyRSS and a few other apps. I always wanted an RSS reader that I could use anywhere on any device. I have finally settled on rss2email. I can read on any device I can access my email. I have setup an email just for rss feeds (rss@mydomain.com) and use a server side filter to put the feeds in the correct mailbox. I love the idea of not introducing another app to manage something.

For mail I use mutt. Mutt and rss2email are a match made in heaven. I can quickly process the stuff I want to read and the stuff I have little interest in. Feeds like Hacker News can get out of hand quickly without the ability to quickly process...

Re: Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

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Post by ackyshake » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 4:10 AM UTC

I use Newsblur[1] in the browser. The best part of Newsblur for me, is its intelligence trainer.

Suppose you want feeds from website A, but don't want certain stories tagged with "mice", or titles containing "epistemology", and you only want to see articles published by an author named "Joyce Smith", you can do that.

It's pretty great. Reading RSS feeds has become so much more pleasurable. The articles that do make it past the training filters are almost always what I do like to read.

[1]: https://newsblur.com

Re: Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

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Post by SllX » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 4:12 AM UTC

You haven’t mentioned what you want to use RSS for, so I‘ll try to provide some context as to how I use it.

Feedbin account linked to NetNewsWire on my iPad, iPhone and Mac. I chose Feedbin because it is 1. A paid subscription, I forgot what I paid, but $50/year I want to say and 2. A ton of RSS apps support it. I like the clear cut relationship and expectations of being a customer, not merely an entitled user with a free account, and I like that Feedbin is effectively platform agnostic and not tied to a specific client as long as you have a client that supports it.

NetNewsWire is my preferred client, but this is as much out of complacency as anything else. I’ve used some version of NetNewsWire for close to 15 years now. The current v5 series of releases is a very neat client, has a good team led by Brent Simmons developing it, and while I’m not sure what the feature is called, has a neat reader mode that can load the whole post even in partial-post feeds.

I use RSS mainly for blogs and webcomics, but I have a couple of news sites loaded in there as well. Most of those also send me Newsletters which I have automatically forwarded to my Instapaper account from my Inbox. I skim most posts, read some others in NetNewsWire, but if an individual post is long and I want to do more than skim, it goes straight to Instapaper. If it’s worth keeping for reference or to read again, it goes from Instapaper to my Pinboard Archive. I mark the news feeds as read about once a week regardless of whether I’ve gotten to it or not because most of it has a shelf life and if there was anything important I probably heard about it on some podcast.