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#62For a long time I've been a happy user of rss2email, originally written by Aaron Swartz. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email It periodically fetches the rss feeds, and sends the content to a specified email address where you can use your email reader to sort them into folders. Assuming you have a "good" email client, this takes care of most of my RSS requirements: Free software, offline availability, and the abili…
Interesting, I use kill-the-newsletter to go the other way around. But your approach would give a good search and archiving functionality, something that rss clients (mostly) lack. I'm using feedbro (Firefox extension) as RSS client only because I can assign points to keywords to prioritize the huge info volume. The only other client that has such functionality is on Emacs, afaik. Had not tried it.. anyway, it would…
I also can’t believe that this feature doesn't exist in any other rss client. I’m almost at the point of writing one myself.
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#63And like with most multiplatform apps, it doesn't look native at all on iOS. I prefer my current combination of: https://netnewswire.com + https://miniflux.app Both open source too.
Agreed. Miniflux is rock solid and I use Reeder on my iOS devices, which actually is gorgeous and looks native on iOS. Have used NetNewsWire as well.
I think I just got unlucky trying Miniflux when there happened to be a bug that prevents the sync frequency from being respected. Once that’s fixed I plan to give it another try.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been happy with Pocket Casts on both Android and iOS. There's also a web player, but I rarely use it these days.
I went from Pocket Casts to open-sourced AntennaPod, and I highly recommend it. It's available on F-Droid.
Pocket Casts is open source. (I know you didn't say otherwise, but there's potential for misunderstanding given the wording.)
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Thanks, people are entitled to their opinions, so I am fine with it. I am building to learn and play around with Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform and want to have an RSS app I like to use. So, I will continue working on it.
I did experiment with light mode a while back. I didn't end up implementing it. But maybe in future, I will add it as an option . Here is the sample of it
Re: Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
#66A little weird its named “twine” since that name has been in use for years by a JavaScript interactive fiction development platform. https://github.com/klembot/twinejs https://twinery.org
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Re: Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
#67For a long time I've been a happy user of rss2email, originally written by Aaron Swartz. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email It periodically fetches the rss feeds, and sends the content to a specified email address where you can use your email reader to sort them into folders. Assuming you have a "good" email client, this takes care of most of my RSS requirements: Free software, offline availability, and the abili…
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#68Super cool. I really want to try out Kotlin multiplatform and see how good the app feels. Flutter so far feels "off". So excited to try this out.
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#69I think I'll wait for an F-Droid release before trying this: https://github.com/msasikanth/twine/issues/38 I currently use Nextcloud News, but it's a bit slow (especially with my 50k+ unread items), and doesn't support dynamically ranked feeds, only chronological ones. It's nice having read status synced across devices, though.
Can Nextcloud News scrape the full article text if its not included in the feed?
It Technically could as it has plugin support but as far as I am aware it doesn't.
Some alternatives:
- TT-RSS¹ has multiple plugins, including the one I currently support Feediron²
- FressRSS³ has CSS selector support out of the box and has a readability extension⁴ that supports Readability or Mercury
I've been dreaming of porting Feediron to both FreshRSS and Nextcloud news. But I barely have any free time as is... one day
[2] https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron
[3] https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/
[4] https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions?tab=readme-ov-file#by...
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I went from Pocket Casts to open-sourced AntennaPod, and I highly recommend it. It's available on F-Droid.
Could you describe what it was that made you switch?
Not the OP but for me I switched before they went opensource and I was having issues with how Patreon feeds were imported into Pocketcasts. Can't really remember the specifics but if I remember correctly their server was doing some episode caching and it was going all funky.
I stay with Antennapod now because it's very actively maintained and because of the Nextcloud gpodder¹ app and the Nextcloud Repod app². Lets me have a web player and sync entirely within my own infrastructure.