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    RSS is awesome

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    314 points edverma2 | 12 comments | 28 Aug 25 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source | bottom
    1. ropable ◴[29 Aug 25 01:37 UTC] No.45059049[source]▶
    I'm sad that a basic description of what RSS consists of makes it onto HN. I still upvoted to help educate the kids :/

    FYI FreshRSS is fairly trivial to self-host, and is a really nice option for an RSS reader app.

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    2. senectus1 ◴[29 Aug 25 02:15 UTC] No.45059297[source]▶
    FreshRSS is dabomb! Highly recommend it.
    3. vanc_cefepime ◴[29 Aug 25 04:20 UTC] No.45060155[source]▶
    Preferential to Miniflux myself, but any RSS reader is better than none.
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    4. fzxu22 ◴[29 Aug 25 04:44 UTC] No.45060296[source]▶
    +1 happy freshrss user here
    5. theshrike79 ◴[29 Aug 25 06:28 UTC] No.45060861[source]▶
    I tried both, but Miniflux was like 15% _too_ bare-bones for me.

    FreshRSS hit the sweet spot for me, combined with NetNewsWire as a mobile UI

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    6. digital_voodoo ◴[29 Aug 25 07:08 UTC] No.45061106[source]▶
    Same here, tried both and sticked with Miniflux that seems on the lighter side. I don't really need the web interface or an app, because I channel everything towards a Telegram bot, where I read the feeds: a glance at the title, "Instant View" or long read if needed.
    7. gullevek ◴[29 Aug 25 07:33 UTC] No.45061253{3}[source]▶
    Yeah, even as a desktop UI NetNewsWire is great. FreshRSS rocks
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    8. DonHopkins ◴[29 Aug 25 11:32 UTC] No.45062706[source]▶
    Who old enough to remember when everybody was syndicating all their favorite RSS feeds on their own blogs, and then some joker posted a blog entry to his own RSS feed with a title like "What happens when you put an unbalanced <BLINK> tag into the title?", and the ENTIRE BLOGOSPHERE started blinking?
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    9. emigre ◴[29 Aug 25 12:39 UTC] No.45063310[source]▶
    I have been using miniflux for a while. I love it. It's great.
    10. wyclif ◴[29 Aug 25 14:37 UTC] No.45064722{4}[source]▶
    NetNewsWire is beginning to choke for me because I have a large number of feeds. I was using it today and when I pressed Alt-K to "mark all as read", it beachballed on me and I had to force quit. This has been happening more often recently as I've added more feeds.
    11. danillonunes ◴[29 Aug 25 15:42 UTC] No.45065550[source]▶
    People were literally XSSing themselves and the worst someone did was a funny prank. Those were simpler times.
    12. ibfreeekout ◴[29 Aug 25 20:58 UTC] No.45069314[source]▶
    This is what I use, and I also have Readrops on my phone that syncs back to my FreshRSS instance. Makes it really convenient to have a lightweight reading app where I can submit new feeds to it and have it sync back to the server.