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Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

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Re: Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

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Other: Rawdog (http://offog.org/code/rawdog/). Very bare-bones: you edit a textual config file and run it periodically from cron, and it gives you a (repeatedly updated) static HTML page with the contents of your feeds merged into chronological order. It doesn't live in the cloud; if you run rawdog on a server at home that isn't visible from the outside (as I do), then you have no way to read your aggregated feeds when you're away from home.

But it's simple, it works, and (with a tiny bit of CSS and Javascript tweakery in its templates) it presents things in exactly the way I want them, which no other RSS-reading tool I've seen does. (One page with everything inline, rather than a list of feeds that I have to select one by one: I want my feed aggregator to actually aggregate my feeds. This enables the simplest possible reading process[1]: start at the top and read or skim until reaching something you've seen already, then stop. The only nontrivial change I've made is adding little toggles to collapse and expand whole feeds or individual entries.)

[1] I should in good conscience admit that this breaks down in the presence of feeds whose timestamps are b0rked, which are unfortunately not that rare. This doesn't in practice require a big deviation from the simple process in the previous paragraph.

And I like having it live on my local server, not in the cloud. What feeds I choose to read are no business of, say, Google's, and the whole cloud thing is overrated. Get off my lawn!

Re: Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

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[Other] Bazqux - https://bazqux.com/

I continue to be amazed that Bazqux has gotten little to no press recognition. The UI is clean, simple, and an excellent match for the Google Reader UI, and it offers several different list view options (of which headline list is the only one _I_ need, but at least the options are there for those who are so interested. There's an API, and it's picking up some device app support (I use News+ on Android).

The one potential downside is the need to pay a subscription fee after 30 days, but given my heavy dependency on RSS, and what happened to the free Google Reader, $10-$30 a year is a trivial and well-deserved expense.

Re: Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

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I grudgingly use Feedly. I don't like it (too much mystery meat navigation), but it's good enough.

Even though you might have to host it yourself (or email me, i can setup a temporary account on mine for you to test with), I've found I like TinyTiny RSS's UI. It doesn't try to get in my way with my reading, and replicates the way that I had been using google reader with liferea fairly well. I don't have any complaints about it (other than it loading a little slow sometimes).

Re: Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

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post #25

Other: Rawdog ( http://offog.org/code/rawdog/ ). Very bare-bones: you edit a textual config file and run it periodically from cron, and it gives you a (repeatedly updated) static HTML page with the contents of your feeds merged into chronological order. It doesn't live in the cloud; if you run rawdog on a server at home that isn't visible from the outside (as I do), then you have no way to read your aggregated feeds…

This is exactly what I've been looking for. I almost got to the point of building something like it for myself.
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