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What’s missing are the email digest services. I built a simple little service that sends rss digests to my email: https://pico.sh/feeds Check it out
This is a nice overview but is also obviously content marketing for Lighthouse, which, fine. I use Feedly, and generally like it, but the issue with RSS has very little to do with reader front ends and largely to do with how a lot of people don't publish full articles on RSS, images don't work, etc. The demo images of all the readers are like best case scenario - most non-personal sites only publish a paragraph or tw…
I use feedly because it's where I landed after GReader; I don't love it, but it has worked continually without bothering me enough to think about it. But one day I want to look into alternatives, and the number one thing in my wishlist is to be able to scrap sites that crop the full article in the feed. Going from the RSS client to the browser to the reader mode in the browser is such an absurd friction. Edit: Well,…
The developer also set up their own instance of FiveFilters Full Text Rss (https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/) for use with that reader to do fetch the content. I typically use this as proxy for any feeds I'm going to add where the author didn't provide the full text.
Other than that: * The BazQux web interface has a button to fetch the full text content of the article. * As you noted, FeedMe on Android can also switch to web mode to fetch full content.
I prefer the Five Filters way because then I can go through my feeds offline while in transit
I'm using Inoreader which does that - I have a folder that is displayed as titles only, and a different one that displays as "cards".
I've tried a few of the more famous self-hosted ones, but none of them have that feature. I know that a keyboard shortcut can be used to change views, but my early-morning doomscrolling brain doesn't want to think about that.
yarr is a fantastic selfhosted reader
This is what I'm using right now. I like that it has a built-in "reader mode" where it fetches the target article from the website and removes all the crud. But I do have a wishlist of creature-comfort items that would probably never make it in: * I go days/weeks without reading anything and trying to find out where I left off is a big pain. There doesn't seem to be a way to sort chonologicaly (only reverse). * The o…
I run it on a VPS so I can access it from phone+laptop and it looks great everywhere. I've only "augmented" it by throwing a basic rss bridge on the same server (well, the bridge is really single-file python script that generates rss feeds from other sources).
I'll just shill my own feed reader here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re... It currently only runs in Firefox but if anyone is interested, I'll Port it to Chrome since it now supports a sidebar interface. I made this because I wanted to have feeds show up where I read them, in the browser, and I wanted it on my own device so nobody else controls it. No hosting, no payment, just a simple t…
What’s missing are the email digest services. I built a simple little service that sends rss digests to my email: https://pico.sh/feeds Check it out
Not a user (yet) but just want to say I concur that email is the best medium for RSS feeds, so kudos.
I’m disappointed in the article but watching RSS for 25 years (declared dead for most of them) have gotten me used to disappointment. It just seems like every discussion about RSS starts as if it was some brand new thing and not if we didn’t have 25 years of experience with it. The article makes a matrix out of the least important attributes of the product (free vs hosted) and has nothing at all to say about: (1) use…
> [1] … if your cache mechanisms will protect you from polling some people’s RSS feeds too fast. Maybe you’re better off if they block you. They do, just use `--etag-save` and `--etag-compare` and curl does proper caching, since 2020: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/12/06/curl-speaks-etag/ I have dabbled with replacing my RSS reader with something like this, but haven't done it, yet.
I was looking into this a few days ago, but was having a hard time finding an RSS reader that was desktop software and handled Youtube feeds. I couldn’t find anything that wasn’t tied to a SaaS or required hosting online.
I find the new tab page to be the ideal location for RSS feeds as I can quickly see new updates each time I open a new tab (which is quite frequently!).
It's on the Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/new-tab-widgets/ejn...