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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 Iβve been really happy with it. Itβs 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 NewsBlurβs app to read my articles on mobile.
Another hand in the air for Feedly.
Reeder with iCloud sync on iPhone and Mac.
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
I use fresh rss since its rather easy to selfhost, and read you on my android. Unfortunately read you doesn't play well with fresh rss yet.
Self-hosted instance of Yarr (https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr).
+1
Yarr (https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr) is a versatile web-based feed aggregator that serves as both a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.
Please be aware that the releases available on the GitHub repository "https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr" might not be the most up-to-date versions. However, you have the option to compile the application from the source code, ensuring that you benefit from essential bug fixes and improvements.
Inoreader
I use an instance of FreshRSS (but I plan on hosting my own) and I use NetNewsWire to access it on iOS
Feedly on the web and my phone (cause cloud sync and blah blah blah)
Newsboat on my Linux box that I ssh into when I'm tired of people and ads.
NetNewsWire
+1 for miniflux, has all the features and it's really light.
I didn't know about news, might give it a look. I've been using Microflux on Android.
Liferea, newsboat and feeder
TT-RSS
Inoreader
I wrote my own frontend for TTRSS https://github.com/jeena/feedthemonkey
the android app Nunti.
I get easily overwhelmed by busy feeds and not checking every day, so their completely-offline interest algorithm concept is helpful for me
I use the news-app of my Nextcloud to aggregate and manage the feeds. To actually read them I connect the news-app with Nextcloud.
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.
When google Reader was binned I used theoldreader for years, but eventually migrated to Feedly because it synched between my PC and smartphone.
+1 for The Old Reader.
It was the perfect replacement for Google Reader. It's been years since I've used it, or RSS in general, though.
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
Iβve got tons of feeds for sites that interest me. I organize them into folders by subject. I have a folder for online comics, iPhone sites, news sites, sports sites, technology sites, and pen-related sites just to name a few.
I use it as intended; a way to aggregate data into one place. I use mine for podcasts, reddit, discord announcements, steam patch notes, and of course news.
Self hosted Tiny Tiny RSS instance with the Tiny Tiny RSS for Android app. Works really well and never had any issues.
This might actually help me move away from feedme and greader for android. Both of these apps support Feedly, but the development cycle is extremely slow to resolve some of the bugs it has.
I've got Feedbro running on a server, sending Twitter posts to Discord. Works well with Reddit posts too
The one built into the Vivaldi web browser.
I use News Explorer on both iOS and OSX.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306
I think itβs one of the best.
I self host FreshRSS and it seems to work pretty well.
I use Feeder on mobile and Newsflash on desktop
Iβve been using NetNewsWire and itβs ability to sync through iCloud so I can read stuff on my phone or MBA. Bonus that itβs FOSS!
Newsboat on desktop and Reeder on IOS.
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.
Feeder
I still use gReader. It's hard to find but I still keep a copy of the pro version apk (version 4.3.1_pro_beta) for Android. It just works really well and has the best UI that works the way I like it on both my phone and tablet. The latest version (which is not the one I have) was last updated April 2021. The developer was 'noinnion'.