I still perfer the TT-RSS, now on github without Fox (The dev most people had issues with).
The android app isn't maintained at the moment but it's still one of the best rss apps I have ever used
Using Thunderbird for RSS
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#12Man discovers long-available UI in common app, which he has not noticed before! News at 11!
Pretty sure I was using TB to read RSS back in 2006 or something like that...
Both of these comments are needlessly snarky. Although it is true that the RSS capability of Thunderbird has been around for quite a while, I enjoy articles that simply reflect the author's discovery or use case.
Like you, I was consuming RSS through Thunderbird around that time as well and thought it was really good. I have since moved to something else(many times) as my needs have changed.
In the spirit of HN, the poster maybe wanted a discussion of how the use of RSS has declined and walled gardens took its place which is not good for the longevity and usefulness of knowledge.
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#13I've tried to switch from Feedly to a self-hosted solution last month, and tested some of the different open-source options.
Different UIs aside, one of the issues I kept having was that some of my feeds wouldn't load because sites now have a bot/scrapping/AI protection in place (Cloudflare, Anubis, etc), breaking RSS readers. And that was with a residential IP, it was even worse if I routed traffic via a popular VPS or VPN provider.
I guess this will affect some users more than others depending on what we subscribe to, but I decided to keep using Feedly (for now at least).
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#14The built-in matrix and irc client is pretty great too, hope they can keep building out these features. I donate every year to projects I use, and TB was among them this year.
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#15I like Miniflux becuase it is easy to run and keeps a centralized status if you have multiple devices. I guess if Thunderbird supported the Fever protocol you could use them together unless there is some other method I'm not aware of?
I've wanted to try Miniflux for a long time, so a few weeks ago I set it up on a headless debian box I have running for some homelab services. That's part of my Tailscale network, so I was able to immediately start testing on desktop, phone, etc. It's great!
I might take a stab at customizing the UI a bit. I like that it's opinionated but pretty bare-bones visually out of the box.
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#16> and it’s honestly quite great. As opposed to it not honestly being great, which if true, would kind of defeat the point of writing this post
Well I, for one, find the honesty refreshing.
Someone else mentioned Miniflux, which I've been testing for a few weeks on a local, tailscale-connected debian box. I really like it so far, with only a few minor complaints. It seems to embrace Dave Winer’s "river of news" idea that the author mentions. When I open my Miniflux homepage, I see the latest posts and I'm not distracted by older posts that I might not be concerned about.
That said, I categorize my feeds and treat the categories differently. Dev/design/DIY -- I tend to read all/most of it.
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#17The built-in matrix and irc client is pretty great too, hope they can keep building out these features. I donate every year to projects I use, and TB was among them this year.
This comment and OP's feed reader suggestion are making me look into Thunderbird for the first time in 17-ish years!
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#18I've tried to switch from Feedly to a self-hosted solution last month, and tested some of the different open-source options. Different UIs aside, one of the issues I kept having was that some of my feeds wouldn't load because sites now have a bot/scrapping/AI protection in place (Cloudflare, Anubis, etc), breaking RSS readers. And that was with a residential IP, it was even worse if I routed traffic via a popular VPS…
Thank you for this post. I was debating about moving from Feedly and this just saved me a lot of headaches.
At this point the main reason I stay on Feedly is their ability to handle fake email subscriptions into their RSS format. So many blogs and other places don't provide RSS anymore :(
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#19I installed Thunderbird for the first time today, and removed it about an hour later. It sat there idle chewing up 67% of a CPU core.
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#20I tried going back to Thunderbird for RSS recently just to get away from bloated web readers. The fact that you can use standard email rules to filter out high-volume noise is actually amazing. You can just auto-archive posts based on regex or keywords.
But the lack of simple cross-device sync killed the experiment for me. If you read a few articles on your phone while commuting, your desktop client has no idea when you get home. It is a great setup if you only ever consume news at one desk, but I ended up just sticking with Miniflux so my unread counts stay sane.