Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader

Re:Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader by antpls on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:20AM (#27013298)

So far RSS is unmatched for me. I started with Netvibes when I was a teenager, then I stopped for some years, then I installed Aggregator on Android a to be able to follow RSS feeds again.

I'm looking for a smarter RSS reader on Android than the existing ones. Features I'm looking for :

  - automatic deduplication of items
  - smart labels powered by ML
  - My own grouping based custom filters AND smart labels
  - easy access to discussions that might exist on social website for a given link (twitter, HN, reddit)

That might be the usecase that would get me started with Android development, but I have not decided if a webapp would be better. Also every news businesses and news distributors on Earth (including Google) are trying to kill RSS to make more money, I don't see who could stop them.

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Re:Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader by 411111111111111 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:58AM (#27013505)

> That might be the usecase that would get me started with Android development, but I have not decided if a webapp would be better.

You might already know this but that's actually a very fluid barrier. If you use the angular cli to start a project you can - with one command (ng add @angular/pwa) make it installable on devices after you've deployed it on an https server.

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Re:Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader by hiyer on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:01AM (#27013530)

You can try feedly[0] as it has at least some of the above — smart labels, custom grouping and easy access to discussions (on hn at least - I don't use the others).

There's also a premium version which may support some of the other features you've mentioned.

0. https://feedly.com/

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Re:Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader by antpls on Sunday May 02, 2021 @08:25AM (#27014663)

I tried few years ago, and it didn't fit my needs. Just tried again :

  - must sign up to use the application
  - impossible to select several items to mark them as read/unread (possible in Aggregator, and I can't live without it)
  - the grouping is based on the feeds (same as Aggregator), but I'm looking for label grouping ala Gmail
  - must pay for the search/label feature
  - in text only mode, the items are hard to read. I like Aggregator's way of seeing the source's favicon next to the items
  - ads

RSS is free open standard, it's not supposed to change and does not require maintenance. Aggregator's last update was almost 3 years ago and the app still fully works as intended today. I'm not looking for an app that is updated every week for new features.

I tried all the free Android RSS readers under the sun, and none has the perfect combo of features I would like.

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