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39 points by mike-- 11y ago

sam_lowry_ 11y ago
I use Drupal with the built-in aggregator module for the same purpose.
JD557 11y ago
The demo seems to be down at the moment. Could you post some screenshots?
- mike-- 11y ago
  already working, http://demo.truerss.net/show/stackoverflow-scala/Which-scala-book-tutorial-covered-the-new-features-and-changes-after-scala-2-8 http://demo.truerss.net/show/stackoverflow-scala/Which-scala... some rss feeds are broken, I will remove them
- mike-- 11y ago
  screenshots: https://github.com/truerss/truerss/wiki/screenshots https://github.com/truerss/truerss/wiki/screenshots
lcfcjs 11y ago
rss reader written in java, yuck i'd rather use PHP lol
mey 11y ago
After google reader shutdown I switched to http://www.newsblur.com/ http://www.newsblur.com/ as my reader, I recommend and pay for it.
- nikolay 11y ago
  Me, too. It has unique features - I love it!
  - V-2 11y ago
    I'm using Feedly. What unique features does NewsBlur have?
    - blakesterz 11y ago
      I use newsblur too, Feedly looks pretty similar at first glance. I went with NewsBlur after comparing them all at the time it had everything I wanted, and it wasn't free, so I'm hoping that means it'll last. So far so good on that front :-)
    - nikolay 11y ago
      NewsBlur is open-source with cloud options. Feedly wastes too much screen real estate, NewsBlur has an AI option to prioritise articles based on your taste.
      - pinkano 11y ago
        Can't agree with you on this one, I like Feedly UI more.
        nikolay 11y ago
        It looks cleaner, but it's not as practical as NewsBlur, which is built for speedy consumption. I love that NewsBlur shows me article edits - sometimes they bring a great aspect you don't get by other RSS readers. Its social features beat what Google Reader had in store as well.
        V-2 11y ago
        I took a peek at Newsblur. This Reddit-ish UI puts me off too (plus no dark theme...), but I can't rule out it beats Feedly in terms of functionality. I wonder if their mobile app is any good - while Feedly the webapp is ok, Feedly on Android is severely lacking. Always loading news updates when it's opened (doesn't allow you to skip this step), and if you switch away from it, there's no guarantee it'll return you to the same place... lame
- qznc 11y ago
  Newsblur does not fit my style of feed consumption, but Inoreader does: https://www.inoreader.com https://www.inoreader.com It took a few years for the world of feed readers, but at least for me I'm as comfortable as with Google Reader now.
  - lormayna 11y ago
    +1 for Inoreader. I tried to use also the API for a small personal machine learning project
brotherjerky 11y ago
Thanks for releasing this! Anyone know if there is a Docker container for this app? I've found Docker to be a great tool for trying server apps out without littering my system with extra installations.
- nacs 11y ago
  The executable is just a single .jar file so not sure Docker would be very useful here.
- mike-- 11y ago
  you are welcome! Yes, in the future I plan to put it in the docker, but at the current moment you can use it, because this only one jar + sqliter db.
wanda 11y ago
I recommend: https://www.goread.io/ https://www.goread.io/ Very similar; made with Go.
- kasbah 11y ago
  I have been using goread.io pretty much since it launched. There is a really annoying bug though that affects me every time I read my feeds. All my posts get marked as read at once when I resize the window in a certain way. I had a go at fixing it myself but it seems I couldn't (my PR did get merged but the problem persists) and no one else seems to be trying to fix it so I am thinking of finding an alternative. The truerss demo doesn't seem to work at all for me though. The page shows up but when I click on a post it doesn't show anything.
webwanderings 11y ago
Digg Reader has been amazingly doing its job well. Have tried all kinds of RSS reader since the great demise of GR. Am very satisfied with Digg, irrespective of its past notoriety.
- akkartik 11y ago
  Thanks for the tip! I'm trying it out now.
- frankacter 11y ago
  Another enthusiastic vote for Digg Reader.
akkartik 11y ago
I guess I'm back in the market for a feedreader because #$%# Firefox keeps breaking[1][2] my (awesome) feedreader extension[3]. First they moved me off regular Firefox to Nightly because my (entirely private, self-developed) extension is unsigned. Now it's stopped working even on Nightly. And part of me is like why bother fixing it because they're just going to move the goalposts again like they did going from XUL to Jetpack to cfx to jpm... Already I hear they're moving to something called WebExtensions, which of course won't work for all possible situations so we might still have to stick with the old SDK, but the old SDK is deprecated... I get tired just thinking about it. Ack, how did this turn into a rant? Tl;dr - I get cranky when I haven't been able to get to my feeds for a few days. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196537 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196537 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256212 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256212 [3] http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN
- reitanqild 11y ago
  Mozilla being busy about taking away the rest of the reasons why we have used FF. :-/ It was never about privacy in my case, it was about a better browser for work, reading and research.
gkya 11y ago
I use Elfeed on Emacs, which is just beautiful. It also provides a web interface, but I didn't use it yet.
dvh 11y ago
Real men write their own rss readers!
- saturn_vk 11y ago
  That's what I did some time ago: https://github.com/urandom/readeef https://github.com/urandom/readeef
- mike-- 11y ago
  yep :)
dsr_ 11y ago
The web-UI looks nice from a static shot, but I don't see anything interesting enough to make me switch over from Tiny Tiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home) which has been working very well for years now.
amerkhalid 11y ago
I tried many RSS readers after Google Reader, but eventually settled on self-hosted JS Reader based on http://www.jdev.it/a-very-simple-rss-reader-with-angularjs-and-google-feed-api http://www.jdev.it/a-very-simple-rss-reader-with-angularjs-a... It doesn't keep track of what posts you have read and there is no privacy if someone finds your url for the reader, but it is portable and doesn't require anything but a browser.
davefp 11y ago
Obligatory plug for Stringer, my personal reader of choice: https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/swanson/stringer
Chirael 11y ago
I've had a good experience with Commafeed https://www.commafeed.com/ https://www.commafeed.com/

39 points by mike-- 11y ago

sam_lowry_ 11y ago

I use Drupal with the built-in aggregator module for the same purpose.

JD557 11y ago

The demo seems to be down at the moment. Could you post some screenshots?

mike-- 11y ago
already working, http://demo.truerss.net/show/stackoverflow-scala/Which-scala-book-tutorial-covered-the-new-features-and-changes-after-scala-2-8 http://demo.truerss.net/show/stackoverflow-scala/Which-scala... some rss feeds are broken, I will remove them
mike-- 11y ago
screenshots: https://github.com/truerss/truerss/wiki/screenshots https://github.com/truerss/truerss/wiki/screenshots

lcfcjs 11y ago

rss reader written in java, yuck i'd rather use PHP lol

mey 11y ago

After google reader shutdown I switched to http://www.newsblur.com/ http://www.newsblur.com/ as my reader, I recommend and pay for it.

nikolay 11y ago
Me, too. It has unique features - I love it!
- V-2 11y ago
  I'm using Feedly. What unique features does NewsBlur have?
  - blakesterz 11y ago
    I use newsblur too, Feedly looks pretty similar at first glance. I went with NewsBlur after comparing them all at the time it had everything I wanted, and it wasn't free, so I'm hoping that means it'll last. So far so good on that front :-)
  - nikolay 11y ago
    NewsBlur is open-source with cloud options. Feedly wastes too much screen real estate, NewsBlur has an AI option to prioritise articles based on your taste.
    - pinkano 11y ago
      Can't agree with you on this one, I like Feedly UI more.
      - nikolay 11y ago
        It looks cleaner, but it's not as practical as NewsBlur, which is built for speedy consumption. I love that NewsBlur shows me article edits - sometimes they bring a great aspect you don't get by other RSS readers. Its social features beat what Google Reader had in store as well.
      - V-2 11y ago
        I took a peek at Newsblur. This Reddit-ish UI puts me off too (plus no dark theme...), but I can't rule out it beats Feedly in terms of functionality. I wonder if their mobile app is any good - while Feedly the webapp is ok, Feedly on Android is severely lacking. Always loading news updates when it's opened (doesn't allow you to skip this step), and if you switch away from it, there's no guarantee it'll return you to the same place... lame
qznc 11y ago
Newsblur does not fit my style of feed consumption, but Inoreader does: https://www.inoreader.com https://www.inoreader.com It took a few years for the world of feed readers, but at least for me I'm as comfortable as with Google Reader now.
- lormayna 11y ago
  +1 for Inoreader. I tried to use also the API for a small personal machine learning project

brotherjerky 11y ago

Thanks for releasing this! Anyone know if there is a Docker container for this app? I've found Docker to be a great tool for trying server apps out without littering my system with extra installations.

nacs 11y ago
The executable is just a single .jar file so not sure Docker would be very useful here.
mike-- 11y ago
you are welcome! Yes, in the future I plan to put it in the docker, but at the current moment you can use it, because this only one jar + sqliter db.

wanda 11y ago

I recommend: https://www.goread.io/ https://www.goread.io/ Very similar; made with Go.

kasbah 11y ago
I have been using goread.io pretty much since it launched. There is a really annoying bug though that affects me every time I read my feeds. All my posts get marked as read at once when I resize the window in a certain way. I had a go at fixing it myself but it seems I couldn't (my PR did get merged but the problem persists) and no one else seems to be trying to fix it so I am thinking of finding an alternative. The truerss demo doesn't seem to work at all for me though. The page shows up but when I click on a post it doesn't show anything.

webwanderings 11y ago

Digg Reader has been amazingly doing its job well. Have tried all kinds of RSS reader since the great demise of GR. Am very satisfied with Digg, irrespective of its past notoriety.

akkartik 11y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'm trying it out now.
frankacter 11y ago
Another enthusiastic vote for Digg Reader.

akkartik 11y ago

I guess I'm back in the market for a feedreader because #$%# Firefox keeps breaking[1][2] my (awesome) feedreader extension[3]. First they moved me off regular Firefox to Nightly because my (entirely private, self-developed) extension is unsigned. Now it's stopped working even on Nightly. And part of me is like why bother fixing it because they're just going to move the goalposts again like they did going from XUL to Jetpack to cfx to jpm... Already I hear they're moving to something called WebExtensions, which of course won't work for all possible situations so we might still have to stick with the old SDK, but the old SDK is deprecated... I get tired just thinking about it. Ack, how did this turn into a rant? Tl;dr - I get cranky when I haven't been able to get to my feeds for a few days. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196537 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196537 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256212 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256212 [3] http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN

reitanqild 11y ago
Mozilla being busy about taking away the rest of the reasons why we have used FF. :-/ It was never about privacy in my case, it was about a better browser for work, reading and research.

gkya 11y ago

I use Elfeed on Emacs, which is just beautiful. It also provides a web interface, but I didn't use it yet.

dvh 11y ago

Real men write their own rss readers!

saturn_vk 11y ago
That's what I did some time ago: https://github.com/urandom/readeef https://github.com/urandom/readeef
mike-- 11y ago
yep :)

dsr_ 11y ago

The web-UI looks nice from a static shot, but I don't see anything interesting enough to make me switch over from Tiny Tiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home) which has been working very well for years now.

amerkhalid 11y ago

I tried many RSS readers after Google Reader, but eventually settled on self-hosted JS Reader based on http://www.jdev.it/a-very-simple-rss-reader-with-angularjs-and-google-feed-api http://www.jdev.it/a-very-simple-rss-reader-with-angularjs-a... It doesn't keep track of what posts you have read and there is no privacy if someone finds your url for the reader, but it is portable and doesn't require anything but a browser.

davefp 11y ago

Obligatory plug for Stringer, my personal reader of choice: https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/swanson/stringer

Chirael 11y ago

I've had a good experience with Commafeed https://www.commafeed.com/ https://www.commafeed.com/