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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 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.
NetNewsWire
Self-hosted instance of Yarr (https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr).
Inoreader
Self-hosted Miniflux with News for Android.
+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.
Inoreader
It was only about a week ago I had no idea what RSS was used for. And today I’ve subscribed to Inoreader to trial it out for a month because it’s freaking amazing!
Emacs + Elfeed
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.
TT-RSS
I’ve been using NetNewsWire and it’s ability to sync through iCloud so I can read stuff on my phone or MBA. Bonus that it’s FOSS!
I use an instance of FreshRSS (but I plan on hosting my own) and I use NetNewsWire to access it on iOS
Feeder on android. Simple open source and does device sync.
Recently stopped using feedly.
Only for Android doesn’t it? I mean no sync with web, iOS or other devices.
Unfortunately right. The dev has no interest in adding external rss reader support
I use NewsReader on both iOS and OSX.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306
I think it’s one of the best.
Reeder with iCloud sync on iPhone and Mac.
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.