I wrote about reading blogs with Thunderbird not long ago:

http://andregarzia.com/2018/11/reading-blogs-with-thunderbir...

I think a similar setup would be good for many people here who wish to read RSS but doesn't want to add another SaaS to their life.

I’ve used that for over a decade, but eventually gave up and signed up for NewsBlur so reading on my phone and my laptop would be in sync. It is open source and you can run it yourself but I gave up and let Sam host it for me.

The other in-sync option would be setting up an rss/imap gateway, which is not even available as a SaaS afaik, so would cost about as much in hosting (unless you already have a server you can use) and about 20 times in labor.

Happy paying NewsBlur customer - even though the iOS app is a battery hog.

It does, but! I really want Thunderbird to be good, but the web feed experience is infuriating. If you don't care about open source or you just care plenty about UX, you wouldn't use it for feed reading. (I got started on a list, but it's more like the whole concept needs to be rewritten.)

Huh? In Firefox you'd visit a webpage and if RSS feeds were available you'd be able to subscribe to them, IIRC.

Where in Thunderbird do you find feeds to subscribe to?

I always found the feed url in a web browser, copied it, and then added it manually to Thunderbird. Granted, it's not the exact same thing as how Firefox used to do it, but it works well enough once you have all the feeds you want set up.