[kwlug-disc] Another RSS Reader

CrankyOldBugger crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 19:04:32 EDT 2017


Well that is one advantage to Feedly and other similar clients in that your
feed preferences are stored with your account, so you get consistency
across all of your browsers/locations/etc.


On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 at 19:02 Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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