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Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by olex »

simonw wrote: post #11

If you're in the Apple ecosystem (Mac, iPhone) NetNewsWire is an absolute delight. It's not a commercial product any more, Brent Simmons runs it as a (very serious) passion project. Here's a recent post by him explaining part of his philosophy for it: https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-we... Crucially, it syncs feed read state between my laptop and phone.

I use NetNewsWire as a frontend, and self-hosted FreshRSS as backend for sync and feed management. Works a treat across multiple devices, Mac/iOS/iPadOS and web.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by cykros »

I've been enjoying TT-RSS, though I do miss when the mobile app companion for it actually worked well. The web interface does work fine, and it does integrate with other local readers (such as newsboat), and allows for a centralized database so that I'm not stuck filtering what I've read on my desktop vs what I've read on my phone.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by j3s »

benrutter wrote: post #136

Just gonna join the many other commenters shilling their favourite, mot mentioned rss reader! I absolutely love Vore (the rss reader, not the other thing!!!) It's really simplistic, and beautifully refuses to do anything I don't want it to. https://vore.website/

author here, glad u enjoy my lil project! lmk if there's anything you'd like to see.

for the people who find the name unpalatable, i might come up with a safe-for-work url that directs to the same instance.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by nntwozz »

simonw wrote: post #11

If you're in the Apple ecosystem (Mac, iPhone) NetNewsWire is an absolute delight. It's not a commercial product any more, Brent Simmons runs it as a (very serious) passion project. Here's a recent post by him explaining part of his philosophy for it: https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-we... Crucially, it syncs feed read state between my laptop and phone.

I started out with NNW then went to Reeder when iPhone came out. Later on google shut down their endeavor and I became frustrated with all the *free* alternatives—luckily I stumbled across News Explorer which I believe was the first (or one of the first) to do iCloud syncing so I could ditch the middleman.

I suggested iCloud sync to Brent but was first rebuffed about the poor technical aspects and problems that it had. For those who remember the sentiment around that time was that iCloud sync was unreliable yet News Explorer was proof that it was working just fine.

Brent later backtracked for which I am very happy, I've been using NNW ever since.

I only wish it had RSS filtering to weed out the shitposts, I believe they're working on it. In the meantime I've been using Feed Rinse.

http://www.feedrinse.com/index-old.php

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by ajkjk »

aboardRat4 wrote: post #115
ajkjk wrote: post #110

Feedly's bullshit about AI and enterprise "insights" is incredibly irritating. Like, I read articles about cooking and math. Why would I want AI-powered security insights? Why would anyone want them, for that matter? It seems incredibly... clueless.

>Like, I read articles about cooking and math. Why would I want AI-powered security insights? Why would anyone want them, for that matter? It's government's social program. Most people are so ignorant about digital security that governments force media providers (social media, newspapers, bloggers) to make native content about how to not tell your bank password to a random person on the internet.

What are you talking about?

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by jonpurdy »

sjs382 wrote: post #90
jonpurdy wrote: post #78

Going to shill for Feedbin ( https://feedbin.com ). I switched to this in 2012 when Reader blew up and it has remained a consistently excellent product since then. I use the web client, and on iOS I use Reeder app to access Feedbin. Ben even published the a Feedbin API¹, which I wrote a Feedbin client for vintage computers (I called Mosaicbin)². I even use it for YouTube subs as of this year and it ingests them perfe…

I second this recommendation! I joined later than you: May 2013. If it really was 2012 when Google Reader blew up, I can't remember what I used before finding Feedbin. Maybe Feedly, maybe something else that came and went or maybe even a local reader... For Android users, I recommend "Capy Reader" as a client.

Correction, Google announced shutting down Reader in 2013. IIRC Feedbin was created at the same time in response to that. So we were both likely among the first users.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by braza »

I bit of out-topic, but the best recommendation that I had here in HN was definitely the FreshRSS [1].

Yes, the design sounds _phpish_, but on Docker it's so reliable and fast, that I feel that I am in some sort of "final version of the software" and not needing anything else or enhancements, like WinRar, Notepad.exe, Winamp, Nero Burning ROM, Windows XP, etc.

I do not know if others have the same feeling about a software that works so great, that _any_ update will be a downgrade given the high level of contentment and satisfaction.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097105

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