[kwlug-disc] Another RSS Reader

Jason Locklin locklin.jason at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 10:44:41 EDT 2017


The newsreader that is part of nextcloud works decently for me. I
figured that I already put in the work to set up nextcloud and might
as well try it. Haven't found any reason to switch to anything else.
-Jason.

On July 17, 2017 7:04:32 PM EDT, CrankyOldBugger
<crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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