First let me say - SCREW YOU GOOGLE FOR SHUTTING DOWN GOOGLE READER. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE AND I WILL NEVER FORGET.
I moved over to NewsBlur for my aggregator, and I’ve been really happy with it. It’s a small team, and the dev is very responsive to issues and suggestions. Reading articles online is quick because it uses many of the same keyboard shortcuts that GReader used.
On my iPhone I rotate between Fiery Feeds, Unread, and NewsBlur’s app to read my articles on mobile.
Miniflux
Same. Specifically I use it as a GUI to organize them; for the actual reading, I wrote a script that compiles an E-mail digest periodically: https://github.com/it-is-wednesday/miniflux-mail-digest
cool. do you have a screenshot (or sample) of what those digests look like?
I straight up don’t understand how RSS works.
Individual sites have RSS feeds, which are essentially just XML files that contain a list of all the articles on the site.
You run software that’s referred to as a feed reader, which contains a list of all the RSS URLs you want to subscribe to. It either periodically checks to see if there’s updates to the RSS files, or gets notified of updates via WebSub.
This seems great for keeping up on your favorite blogs.
Definitely :)
It used to be the main way people followed their favourite blogs. Google had a great product called “Google Reader” for RSS, and people were pretty upset when it was shut down.
Before Google Reader, it was pretty common for email clients to support RSS too.
Feeder
Another hand in the air for Feedly.
I pay for access to Newsblur which is an RSS aggregator with open source mobile apps. For stuff like bug feeds and tracking wiki updates on projects I use elfeed within Emacs.
NetNewsWire
Tried Newsblur and Feedly. Found both ugly. Now I use the news app in my Nextcloud instance. F-Droid and the Play Store have a good app that synchronises with Nextcloud News.
I quickly switched to feedly after the Google reader sunset, but I mostly access feedly via Reeder on Apple products. The feedly website works well when needed though.
Self-hosted instance of Yarr (https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr).
I use an instance of FreshRSS (but I plan on hosting my own) and I use NetNewsWire to access it on iOS
TT-RSS
Liferea, newsboat and feeder
My question would be: What do you read on a RSS feed, I had one when I was trying to find a different way to read the news, but it didn’t hold because I found news too repetitive and only talking about scary things that rarely actually impacted me, so I’d be curious to know what people use them for
