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

#86
Brief Firefox extension.

Very rarely though. It comes in very handy from time to time, like for instance when looking for something specific on Craigslist. Much easier to scan a bunch of feeds than to muck around with the website.

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

#88
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https://newsblur.com/ Switched and started paying when Reader shut down, haven't regretted it.

Same here.

I use the pay version because I have so many feeds but I suspect that's more a sign that I have a problem.

The 64 free sites should be enough.

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

#89

Like a few others here, I use an RSS to email converter, although I'm using a custom-written one. The main difference from rss2email is that I'm not actually doing any SMTP - I'm just dumping files into a Maildir and letting isync do the uploading/downloading. The actual reading then happens mostly with Mutt (which also just interacts with Maildir). Like some others have noted, using email as a storage mechanism redu…

This makes a lot of sense, because RSS is quite e-mail like anyway in so many ways: the feeds look like an inbox, where items are marked read and such.
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