[kwlug-disc] Another RSS Reader

[Bob Jonkman]

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I've been using the Firefox plugin "Brief" for a long time, even
before Google dropped their RSS reader.  Supports OPML, custom CSS,
hierarchical folders. Works in GNU IceCat too.

http://brief.mozdev.org/

- --Bob.


On 2017-07-17 05:38 PM, Chamunks wrote:
> I really miss RSS I think that ever since Google reader died no
> one's really come close...  Usability of greader and it's overall
> speed of getting news from your feeds was second to none.
> 
> I use RSS to subscribe to a good number of things that I need to
> know about ASAP. So places like Feedly are completely out of the
> question and I am far too much of a tinkerer to really justify
> having my own dev box.
> 
> It's very similar to the whole; if you're trying to solve a problem
> with regex, you now have two problems...
> 
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 10:39 AM CrankyOldBugger
> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not running a RSS host of my own; I'm just using an online
>> client called Feedly.  It was able to import my Google Reader
>> subscription list so I didn't need to configure it from scratch.
>> It seems to work well enough for what I need.
>> 
>> What are the advantages of miniflux RSS?
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 at 10:32 Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> For years I used Google Reader for RSS feeds. When they
>>> terminated the service, I did not want to go to yet another
>>> hosted service, and looked for options to host my own.
>>> 
>>> For a few years I ran Tiny Tiny RSS.
>>> 
>>> Lately it started to get flakey, choking up on some feeds
>>> (apparently aborting when parsing them).
>>> 
>>> So, I looked again, and have a working RSS reader.
>>> 
>>> MiniFlux. It lacks some of the features of Tiny Tiny RSS, most 
>>> notably, elimination of duplicates, but otherwise works fine.
>>> 
>>> And the database is SQLite, tinier than tiny ...
>>> 
>>> https://miniflux.net/
>>> 
>>> -- Khalid M. Baheyeldin 2bits.com, Inc. http://2bits.com Drupal
>>> optimization, development, customization and consulting. 
>>> Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. --  Edsger
>>> W.Dijkstra Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --
>>> Leonardo da Vinci
>>> 
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