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Re: Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader

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Always great to see more RSS readers. Are you thinking about making it API compatible with others so people can use any of the existing apps? I'm currently using https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux (Also written in Go) and it supports the Fever API which means I can use any app on most platforms to sync with.

author here.

I personally don't use apps, but if there'll be enough interest from the community, I might consider making it fever-compatible in the future.

Re: Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader

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At least a screenshot is there but maybe provide a bit more details.. I really don't get why people show off projects with zero description. Sure it's an rss reader but what features does it actually offer? E.g. I see "make build_macos" and wonder if other platforms are supported? I don't want to have to find out myself that it does not support linux.

author here. Since it's yet another RSS reader, it supports the basic functionality of almost all the other alternatives (managing feeds, reading, importing/exporting, searching etc.). The plans are to support all 3 platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS). You can try compiling it via `make build_linux` & `make build_windows` on the corresponding platforms.

I, too, would have appreciated slightly more documentation. Here are two questions I had, and what I figured out.

Many RSS readers are stand-alone GUI applications. I would have appreciated an up-front notice that this is a hosted solution. (Which is what I am looking for. I'd like the same view of what's read and unread on my different devices, thank you)

Different RSS readers use different storage backends. I dug through your code, and it seems to use SQLite, which is exactly what I hoped for. It's a huge difference in deployment and system administration headaches whether it uses an embedded or a hosted database.

Looks interesting! I'd also appreciate a prebuilt binary for Linux, but I understand that it's still early days. Paying attention :)

Re: Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader

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post #10

Always great to see more RSS readers. Are you thinking about making it API compatible with others so people can use any of the existing apps? I'm currently using https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux (Also written in Go) and it supports the Fever API which means I can use any app on most platforms to sync with.

This is probably a dumb question, but what does the Fever API do that isn't done in RSS itself? Does it keep track of what you've read already?

Re: Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader

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post #10

Always great to see more RSS readers. Are you thinking about making it API compatible with others so people can use any of the existing apps? I'm currently using https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux (Also written in Go) and it supports the Fever API which means I can use any app on most platforms to sync with.

This is probably a dumb question, but what does the Fever API do that isn't done in RSS itself? Does it keep track of what you've read already?

Not a dumb question. It syncs read status across their web interface and every Fever supporting app on all platforms. You can also "star" items which then also gets synced.

Re: Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader

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post #16
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

author here. Since it's yet another RSS reader, it supports the basic functionality of almost all the other alternatives (managing feeds, reading, importing/exporting, searching etc.). The plans are to support all 3 platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS). You can try compiling it via `make build_linux` & `make build_windows` on the corresponding platforms.

I, too, would have appreciated slightly more documentation. Here are two questions I had, and what I figured out. Many RSS readers are stand-alone GUI applications. I would have appreciated an up-front notice that this is a hosted solution. (Which is what I am looking for. I'd like the same view of what's read and unread on my different devices, thank you) Different RSS readers use different storage backends. I dug t…

thanks for the feedback. i'll update the readme to reflect that.
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