[kwlug-disc] Another RSS Reader

Chamunks chamunks at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 19:01:02 EDT 2017


I need sync, I float around between devices too much to get too attached to
one browser.  My devices are more like cattle than pets.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 5:51 PM Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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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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