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What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by p858snake »

p4bl0 wrote: post #4

Google Reader is the better feed reader I could find in both desktop and web categories. I like the sharing features, the only thing wrong is that it's not free software and not hosted on my server. I tried some GReader-like software but it was not as good, in particular regarding the keyboard-driven aspect.

I use google reader as well, although for me it's missing the options to sort feeds based on their name, and the option to hide any that don't have any unread items.

Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by hkuo »

Reeder. But here's the one feature I'd kill for.

There will always be duplicate links fr different news sources, like Techmeme, Techcrunch, Hacker News and such pointing to the same article source. All if want is for those to be grouped together so I don't have to be exposed to the same article multiple times while scrolling through the feed.

Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by danoprey »

p4bl0 wrote: post #4

Google Reader is the better feed reader I could find in both desktop and web categories. I like the sharing features, the only thing wrong is that it's not free software and not hosted on my server. I tried some GReader-like software but it was not as good, in particular regarding the keyboard-driven aspect.

This probably isn't close to what you are looking for, but Managing News is an open source Drupal project which is essentially just an RSS reader, but with the ability to add a lot more on.

Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by __Joker »

I use google reader. One feature I would like is filtered feeds. ( something on the lines of yahoo pipes. Unfortunately the feeds from yahoo pipes do not update frequently enough and lot of items are missed. ). In essence if I want all the hacker news items which are only related to erlang, I wlll set up a filtered feed ( title or summary contains erlang ) and I will only get erlang items for that feed.

Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by Nick_C »

I use claws-mail for email and it comes with an RSS plugin.

It's very useful because the RSS feeds are treated like email. You can mark individual items as read, important, tagged, and so on. As well, you can use the email client's normal search features to search for text in the content. I use this feature a lot to categorise interesting topics.

The plugin (and claws) are open-source written in C++ if you are looking for ideas.

BTW, I use it to read HN. HN's RSS feed only offers topics that have been voted up (I think), so I see only worthwhile topics. Helps sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Re: What RSS reader do you use, and what does it lack?

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Post by enness »

hkuo wrote: post #43

Reeder. But here's the one feature I'd kill for. There will always be duplicate links fr different news sources, like Techmeme, Techcrunch, Hacker News and such pointing to the same article source. All if want is for those to be grouped together so I don't have to be exposed to the same article multiple times while scrolling through the feed.

+1 for dupes. Need to get rid of those. I use Google Reader.
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