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Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by BariumBlue on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:56PM (#18900771)
What's a good RSS page / app?

On android, Google chrome has a RSS like feed that I rather like, but it feels weird to use - I never intended to have it or use it, and I have no real insight into it.

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by _emacsomancer_ on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:11AM (#18900834)
Newsblur is really nice. Web site, mobile apps, and it's even accessible in Emacs via elfeed-protocol.
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by acemarke on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:32AM (#18900899)
On the web, BazQux Reader ( https://bazqux.com ). Excellent successor to Google Reader, and totally worth the $20/yr subscription

On Android, News+ , which has a BazQux plugin.

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by SamWhited on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:32AM (#18900900)
I use https://www.inoreader.com; it has a pretty nice Android app too.
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by erikrothoff on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:13AM (#18901036)
I have built https://feeder.co would love HN’s feedback.
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by gbear605 on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:23AM (#18901074)
Big fan, I use it everyday.

That said, I do have one small complaint. It is with a change just made in the last few days: the new iOS app update makes it so if you are on the list of all unread articles and you swipe left to mark an article as read, then the article disappears from the list. I’ve repeatedly accidentally marked an article as read and then had to go searching through all my feeds to find it. Instead, it should have the old behavior where it removes the “NEW” icon but otherwise doesn’t change. The app currently still had this behavior when you actually open the article and view it. Even better would be a complete feed sorted by date that shows both read and unread but has unread at the top. This would be similar to how the iOS mail app works.

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by erikrothoff on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:33AM (#18901823)
Thanks for the feedback. Cool to find a user on Hacker News! That's something I hadn't considered. I personally felt it more satisfying to mark as read when the post flies out. But I agree that it can be inconvenient. Do you think an Undo button would help (not sure if you've tried the Outlook iOS app, but it does it really well)?

We have better sorting options in the web and browser extensions, adding them to our iOS and Android apps is prio though. I like the idea with unread at the top!

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by gbear605 on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:48AM (#18902562)
An undo button would definitely help, especially if it is able to undo multiple times.

Thanks for the fast help! I really appreciate it, and it will make me even more likely to keep on using Feeder in the future

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by EvanAnderson on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:21AM (#18901067)
I'll throw out a plug for ttrss.
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by ylmm on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:30AM (#18901096)
+1.

After some of the initial pain of setting it up (which was educational for me anyway), it's exactly the sort of lightweight thing I was looking for after Google Reader shuttered.

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by aaronbrethorst on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:05AM (#18900800)
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by rakoo on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:22AM (#18902466)
I used to run a bot that sent RSS items to my email, so I could use _any_ UI I wanted to manage those (because rss is just like emails you receive en masse without any reply, so any mail client will work). Bonus: Sync is built-in, no need for some fancy protocol that only works in some applications on some platforms.

I don't use it anymore, not because RSS is bad but because I don't need rss

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by mmusc on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:33AM (#18900903)
I've been using feedly. Free version just works.
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by torstenvl on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:07AM (#18900815)
I like Reeder on iOS/Mac. Within the app, you can choose a number of different sync mechanisms - I use Inoreader as mine.
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by mrmondo on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:11AM (#18900833)
Absolutely - Reeder IMO is a very well designed app and it’s great going from my phone / iPad to my home / work desktops and having the syncing work properly.

I use Feedly for my subscriptions, filters and other logic processing.

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by jhund on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:20AM (#18903572)
Shameless plug for https://contentgems.com. It has RSS reader, Feed filtering, and it treats URLs in your twitter home timeline as a feed, too.
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by nicolaslem on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:54AM (#18901410)
I made https://feedsubs.com to read feeds from my phone with a minimalistic interface.
Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by ink_13 on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:20AM (#18901062)
I use The Old Reader: https://theoldreader.com/

It's 95% like Google Reader used to be.

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by YouKnowBetter on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:42AM (#18902838)
No idea what made people "not like" you mentioning https://theoldreader.com since that is what I use and came by to say.

As to the article's headline: if your site does not offer a working RSS feed, you've lost me as a "subscriber". I have nor the time nor the patience to track a 100 sides manually.

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS by Maledictus on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:54AM (#18900980)
Host your own FreshRSS.