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Re: Using Thunderbird for RSS

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Post by upofadown »

emotiveengine wrote: post #20

I 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…

I sync up my newsboat feed reader with syncthing so I am up to date on multiple devices. I wonder if Thunderbird could be made to work in the same way...

Re: Using Thunderbird for RSS

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Post by rambambram »

celsoazevedo wrote: post #13

I'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…

Not to take away from your experience, but I wrote my own simple self-hosted RSS reader and it has no problems at all with around 2000 feeds I throw at it regularly. About 1% of the feeds does not parse for me, probably because of incorrect xml or a bug on my part.

Re: Using Thunderbird for RSS

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Post by abc123abc123 »

upofadown wrote: post #31
emotiveengine wrote: post #20

I 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…

I sync up my newsboat feed reader with syncthing so I am up to date on multiple devices. I wonder if Thunderbird could be made to work in the same way...

I use newsraft. It's the Donald Trump of rss readers! Quick, portable, easily scriptable. In short... excellent!

Re: Using Thunderbird for RSS

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Post by Fluorescence »

goku12 wrote: post #26
emotiveengine wrote: post #20

I 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…

> 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. There is an open source service named gpodder.net (web app, not the client app) that does this for podcasts. It doesn't just sync post read status, it can also sync added podcast feeds across supported clients on all devices. Since podcas…

> gpodder.net

Not sure quite what's going on with that project but when I looked - gpodder.net was a subscription service and the foss project was somewhat hidden and renamed as mygpo. Felt a bit suss and abandoned although I guess an rss server could just be "done".

There is also opodsync that seems to be a bit more alive and popular and says it's gpodder compatible. Not tried it though.

My enthusiasm to self-host my podcast/rss feed was killed dead when I gave nextcloud another go since it can apparently do this. Every few years I set it up having forgotten that the last time I did, I swore to never touch it again. I can't believe it's still such a bad experience.

Re: Using Thunderbird for RSS

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Post by sunaookami »

rambambram wrote: post #32
celsoazevedo wrote: post #13

I'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…

Not to take away from your experience, but I wrote my own simple self-hosted RSS reader and it has no problems at all with around 2000 feeds I throw at it regularly. About 1% of the feeds does not parse for me, probably because of incorrect xml or a bug on my part.

Same, have no problems using FreshRSS.

Re: Using Thunderbird for RSS

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Post by tim-projects »

Fluorescence wrote: post #35
goku12 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. There is an open source service named gpodder.net (web app, not the client app) that does this for podcasts. It doesn't just sync post read status, it can also sync added podcast feeds across supported clients on all devices. Since podcas…

> gpodder.net Not sure quite what's going on with that project but when I looked - gpodder.net was a subscription service and the foss project was somewhat hidden and renamed as mygpo. Felt a bit suss and abandoned although I guess an rss server could just be "done". There is also opodsync that seems to be a bit more alive and popular and says it's gpodder compatible. Not tried it though. My enthusiasm to self-host m…

I've been working on an RSS web app that solves this issue. Works offline, syncs across devices.

It works but trying to make something that scales to a lot of users is technically really hard.

Initially it was client only, but you can't really do that with rss due to cors issues. You have to proxy the feed downloads..

Anyway, I have a working prototype I'm just trying to fix bugs now so I can start showing it to people. Taken me a year almost to get this far

Re: Using Thunderbird for RSS

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Post by miladyincontrol »

dugite-code wrote: post #11

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

Love TT-RSS to bits and pieces, I dont know how people use rss readers that have zero level of filtering. Being able to invoke custom plugins to action on certain hits is just the cherry on top for me.

That said I use a healthy dose of custom css for it on computer, and access it via netnewswire on mobile. Cant speak for any the official apps but at least you can get TT-RSS to speak just about every flavour of RSS API.

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