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

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Post by roman-holovin » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

justusthane wrote: post #226

roman-holovin wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the fact that you've paywalled Reddit RSS feeds which are free is scammy. I get asking money for improving something, but there is no way to just subscribe to Reddit feeds as is.

How is charging for a particular feature “scammy”? Every feature that you want should be free?

No, I don't think so. For example, they have a feature that allows to follow a some twitter feed. Twitter does not have RSS feeds, so they wrote a code to handle that and charging money for that. I'm totally fine with that.

Reddit has RSS. Here is an example - http://old.reddit.com/r/all.rss . To subscribe to it, you need to pay 12 dollars per month to Feedly. And this I think is scammy.

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

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Post by gralx » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 10:42 PM UTC

xelxebar wrote: post #46

For the CLI junkies like myself, newsboat[0] is pretty nice. [0]: https://newsboat.org/

I use newsbeuter. I like to keep mine running in a tmux window. Wasn't aware that a popular fork existed. Does Newsboat have any advantages over newsbeuter?

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

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Post by smitty1e » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 10:42 PM UTC

pinkano wrote: post #170

smitty1e wrote: post #169

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#MeToo I need to figure out if there is an export feature, though. I'd like to try some of the other options listed here.

Yes: https://feedly.com/i/opml

Domo

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

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Post by davidivadavid » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 11:00 PM UTC

neop wrote: post #63

http://www.bazqux.com/ - I paid for a lifetime subscription a couple years ago and never looked back. The interface is great is both desktop and mobile, since it’s online everything is kept in sync across devices and I can configure the interface to my liking. I tried many RSS readers and nothing came close.

Happy BazQux customer too. The creator is very responsive and fixed a bug that caused slowdowns for me in no time. Recommended.

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

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Post by terrycody » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 1:45 AM UTC

Just in time thread, I also need to find a quick and minimalist RSS reader recently.

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

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Post by jkeuhlen » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 1:59 AM UTC

roman-holovin wrote: post #231

justusthane wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is charging for a particular feature “scammy”? Every feature that you want should be free?

No, I don't think so. For example, they have a feature that allows to follow a some twitter feed. Twitter does not have RSS feeds, so they wrote a code to handle that and charging money for that. I'm totally fine with that. Reddit has RSS. Here is an example - http://old.reddit.com/r/all.rss . To subscribe to it, you need to pay 12 dollars per month to Feedly. And this I think is scammy.

For what it's worth, reddit's RSS feeds are pretty broken in my experience. It's highly likely they had to write some custom code for that as well.

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

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Post by m-p-3 » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 4:12 AM UTC

rmykhajliw wrote: post #27

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

Same, the word highlighting feature is something I use a lot.

Makes it easy to spot some articles just by scanning for an highlighted word.

I bought multiple years of "Supporter" level while it was cheap and some features I like were moved into a more expensive tier, and I'm glad I did because the features are grandfathered in until I need to renew.

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

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Post by rambojazz » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 4:46 AM UTC

newsboat

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

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Post by pushECX » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 5:59 AM UTC

rmykhajliw wrote: post #27

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

I used to use Feedly, but it was too slow for my taste. Started using Inoreader a couple of years ago and I love it enough to pay for it. Has all of the display and sorting options I could want, as well as keyword highlights and more.

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

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Post by 0xdeadb00f » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 11:39 AM UTC

wasmitnetzen wrote: post #195

tallanvor wrote: post #104

I've been using Tiny Tiny RSS since Google shut down their reader. https://tt-rss.org/ Certainly not perfect, but it fits my needs and doesn't cost anything. Also has an Android app, so I can easily check my feeds whenever I want.

Note that the forum for tt-rss has a category called "Gas Chamber" for hiding threads, and the maintainer actively defending this choice[1], which might or might not influence your choice. It definitely does for me. [1]: https://community.tt-rss.org/t/a-category-named-gas-chamber/...

Goddamn. That's pretty bad.