[kwlug-disc] Another RSS Reader

[CrankyOldBugger]

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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