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What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?

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I had used Thunderbird's RSS reader for ages, but last year I needed to work on both machines concurrently, so went looking for an alternative and found newsblur - https://newsblur.com is awesome, and works on mobile as well. (unaffiliated, happy paying user. it is free software so you could host it yourself if you want).

I'm a lifetime subscriber to Feedly (https://feedly.com) which has behaved sanely since I joined and claims to have mobile apps but I'm not the target audience for reading blogs on my phone.

There are also quite a few self-hosted options, the most famous one that springs to mind is TinyTinyRSS (https://tt-rss.org/) but I'm sure there are folks who have more experience with any alternatives https://alternativeto.net/software/tiny-tiny-rss/

Feedly is excellent. If they only added decent feed management to their Android client (unsubscribing from a post level in particular), it would be perfect.

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I'm using also Feedly and I am a happy user. It feels so good to read blogs, much rewarding than social networks.

I used to send all the RSS articles to my mail box. Integrated synchronization between devices, mark as read, starring, categorizing, search... All it needs is a script that runs somewhere, it's the simplest one you can self host (provided you already have a mail box)

I don't use it anymore because I don't do RSS anymore. I found the constant browsing to be a bit of a desperate situation, the same way people constantly browse their Facebook account. I'd rather stumble upon a nice article.

Some people like Feedly, but I've always strongly disliked it for reasons I'll get into only if someone wants. (Some of them may not even be current, I haven't really checked the ecosystem since the year Google Reader died.)

For those looking for something closer to the original Google Reader experience with a few extra (and very nice!) features, I would suggest Inoreader, which is what I've been using for many years now. It uses a Freemium model, rather than forcing everyone into an ad-based "free" version.

I also hated Feedly, whose cardinal sin seemed to be that it's not Google Reader. Nowadays I use Newsblur, which is close enough to Google Reader, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Newsblur was one of two others that I gave a go after the Google Reader demise (also TheOldReader). While I liked it okay, I ended up preferring T.O.R. (and then Inoreader) to it because the interface (at the time) was very messy and they had scaling problems with the deluge of new users at the time.

Any of the three were better feed readers than Feedly, which seemed closer to a Google News clone (or more recently, Mozilla's Pocket) that happened to have support for RSS feeds.

I use BazQux. Super simple interface and it has search (Feedly didn't back when I picked after the Google Reader debacle, and its interface is a bit bloated to me).

https://miniflux.app - Very minimalistic and written in Go with a hosted and self hosted option.

I've used and recommended it until the Go/PostGres rewrite happened with miniflux 2. I've switched to Selfoss since then because it had more costraints when self-hosting (php and no database was easier).

For me running one docker-compose up is a lot less work than running a php stack so no complaints there and it works without any issues since it's release.

Self hosted https://freshrss.org/ has been pleasing me for years now. No troubles at all, even when updating. Uses SQLite, which is awesome when migrating.

Used https://tt-rss.org/ before, but had so much trouble after updates. Hit and miss.

I've been using https://tt-rss.org/ for many years now. I'm hosting the backend on a small VPS just for myself. The web client and the Android app are great and the whole stack is rock solid. Highly recommended if you want to read your feeds on multiple devices and keep them in sync.

I went through a handful of RSS readers over the years till I settled on QuiteRSS (https://quiterss.org/). It's a Qt native application with builds for many operating systems. It's still in active development, fast, and has a nice interface.

For aggregation I used feedbin.me and now Feedly after I pruned subscription services.

For reading the Reeder app (iOS, Mac)

https://git.codemadness.org/sfeed/

I really like the simplicity and minimalism of Sfeed. I setup a nightly cronjob that generates an ordinary HTML page, from all the RSS feeds that I like to follow.

I used Feedly for quite a while since google reader shutdown, but switched to Inoreader about 3 or 4 months at. Generally I’m happy with it, although most of the time I access the feed via the Reeder MacOS and iOS apps

Tiny Tiny RSS as a backend and https://github.com/jeena/feedthemonkey as a desktop frontend.

I'm quite partial to TinyRSS, available at tt-rss.org.

feed2exec is pretty useful:

https://feed2exec.readthedocs.io/

almost 7k stars: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds

Disclaimer: it's your project :P

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