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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by vshabanov »

delecti wrote: post #52
marbletiles wrote: post #29

I use Bazqux, which is absolutely superb: * Rock-solid, I haven't seen an outage * Impressively fast (Reeder updates from it much faster than it ever did with Google Reader: I can get all my feeds in one Tube stop's worth of wifi) * Has good features like filtering (goodbye "latest podcast" spam) and highlighting (only see certain posts from high-volume feeds * Great keyboard UI on the web. Can't recommend it enough.…

I tried Bazqux (before settling on Digg), but right near the end of my free trial they removed the one feature I give a damn about. I've never cared for reading entries in the reader, I just want it to show me a list of links that I can easily mark as read and click through to the original article.

What feature was removed? I'm a developer of BazQux Reader and can't remember that I removed any major feature.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by delecti »

vshabanov wrote: post #82
delecti wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried Bazqux (before settling on Digg), but right near the end of my free trial they removed the one feature I give a damn about. I've never cared for reading entries in the reader, I just want it to show me a list of links that I can easily mark as read and click through to the original article.

What feature was removed? I'm a developer of BazQux Reader and can't remember that I removed any major feature.

Essentially when looking at the list of feed items there was no longer a direct link to the articles without expanding the entries.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by alsetmusic »

kylec wrote: post #21
jfb wrote: post #6

I use Reeder [1], backed by Feed Wrangler [2]. I have a few hundred feeds, many of which rarely update. I find it an invaluable way to keep up with interesting and important news; I use RSS the way many people use Twitter, apparently. [1] http://reederapp.com [2] https://feedwrangler.net/welcome.html

I use Reeder too, backed by Fever. With what happened to Google Reader, the fact that Fever is self-hosted and can never go away is a big advantage for me.

I have a license for Fever, but it lost its sparkle for me due to slower sync. I could fall back to it if needed, but I use FeedBin right now.

The period between when Reeder lost Google Reader and when it gained new sync options temporarily killed RSS for me, as every other app I tested just made me wish for Reeder. It's one of my favorite apps of all time.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by luxpir »

Newsbeuter - 'Mutt for RSS' - fast, most-lightweight, self-hosted on Raspberry Pi. This is after trying TT-RSS and Miniflux (post-Reader). Both decent, but neither as appealing. Miniflux is very attractive, I just prefer the speed of Newsbeuter. Plus using the window/pane arrangement of Tmux with it is always fun. The less is more suckless movement very much appeals.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by stevekemp »

rakoo wrote: post #68

A different answer: I don't use an RSS reader per se , but I use the rss-to-nntp gateway that gwene.org [0] is. It's hosted by the same guy behind the well-known gmane.org. I then use the Thunderbird built-in NNTP reader to get all my feeds. I think this is a good way to do it, because it means we could gather all RSS-retrieving capabilities for common sites and share the items much more efficiently than having every…

That sounds like an interesting approach.

I do something similar, I have a server sat around polling RSS feeds and when new entries are posted they're piped into a chatroom which I look at during the course of the day.

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