Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

I use NetNewsWire on iOS / iPadOS, as a front end to a self hosted instance of FreshRSS. I host FreshRSS using docker on an old Raspberry Pi.

I use NetNewsWire on Apple’s platforms and Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows. Both are free. Thunderbird is a bit more…unrefined…compared to NetNewsWire, but it works fine.

I have been using RSS since early 2000s and currently I am settled on Feedly.

> Either the built-in web support is poor or it stops fetching the feeds or renders then poorly.

I guess I am good with Feedly, and Google Reader and everything before that, is because I dont use the RSS Reader to read the content. I am only using RSS as News Headline [1]. And then will either Command Click, Right Click Open New Tab, Simply Click on it, depending on which OS and browser I am using to open them in a new Tab inside Browser.

Which is also the reason why I could end up with hundreds of tabs open. And I read them one by one. For these type of heavy browsing usage I recommend Firefox > Chrome > Safari.

So for my usage I actually think RSS should be a function inside a browser. But I know a lot of people use RSS reader differently.

[1] Which is also how I use Twitter as well. I simply have a list of people I follow and read those list only. So for me I dont ever understand why people are so upset with the For You Tab. But I guess I am the minority and I use it differently.

Is it me or are RSS feeds making a comeback on HN? Very happy to see this trend!

I've been using email since the Google Reader shutdown. The short versions is that I filter (almost all) feeds into a few folders that have no notifications. Now I have a offline-first reader that is already synced to all of my devices.

The long form: https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/

Newsboat for reading in terminal / TUI. I've used it for years and it's quite capable for my needs.

https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

NetNewsWire - https://netnewswire.com

I use it with my iCloud and it's synced on my Mac & iPhone. It just works!

I use my own RSS reader [0]

Recently I also extracted web reading into a separate library which should make writing new projects like RSS readers easier [1]

[0] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

[1] https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy

After Google Reader was shut down, I found TTRSS and use it since then. It works and there are some great extensions like FeedIron available to process RSS feeds before the will integrated into the UI

I really like Mailbrew. Daily email digests from RSS feeds (and a bunch of other stuff).

https://mailbrew.com/

Reeder on iOS / macOS: https://reederapp.com/classic/

With Inoreader as backend: https://www.inoreader.com/

Self-hosted Miniflux, and ReadKit on my Apple devices to access it.

https://miniflux.app https://readkit.app

I've used Miniflux for a long time, and its content manipulation features allows you to work around some of the oddities of RSS feeds you come across.