It’s what I’ve been using recently, but I really dislike how it’s a browser extension, that and how it can’t really handle audio files from my experience.
That’s surprising. I found it be underpowered as an RSS reader, personally. Although I am really only using it for news - I know some people who use it for videos, etc.
That’s one of my problems with Thunderbid, anything that isn’t a HTML page just has loads of problems with it. In fact, most of the readers recommended above by other people suffer from the same problems, it kind of sucks.
I’m yet to find something that supports notifications, handles podcasts/videos and isn’t janky as all hell or hasn’t been abandoned for a decade by now.
I had been using Fluent Reader for months, suddenly the program wouldn’t load up at all upon start. No visible GUI. Didn’t back up my subscriptions so now I lost all my RSS links with it. :-/
Hopefully there’s an update soon, or someone has a trick to retrieve my subscriptions, at least.
The problem is finding a good local, desktop based RSS reader other than thunderbird or a damn server app, especially if you’re on Windows.
I find the Feedbro plugin for Firefox quite handy.
It’s what I’ve been using recently, but I really dislike how it’s a browser extension, that and how it can’t really handle audio files from my experience.
What’s wrong with Thunderbird? Surely you don’t use Outlook by choice?
UI is too bloated, slow, resource hungry and I’ve had problems with displaying some feed content in the past.
God forbid.
That’s surprising. I found it be underpowered as an RSS reader, personally. Although I am really only using it for news - I know some people who use it for videos, etc.
That’s one of my problems with Thunderbid, anything that isn’t a HTML page just has loads of problems with it. In fact, most of the readers recommended above by other people suffer from the same problems, it kind of sucks.
What’s one that doesn’t suck?
Good question.
I’m yet to find something that supports notifications, handles podcasts/videos and isn’t janky as all hell or hasn’t been abandoned for a decade by now.
Reeder on iOS and Mac is excellent. Not open source, but lovingly crafted by an indie dev.
Feedly, Fluent Reader, NewsBlur, yarr, etc.
Thunderbird is fine, but I don’t really want to interact with my feed how I interact with email.
https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader/
https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
I had been using Fluent Reader for months, suddenly the program wouldn’t load up at all upon start. No visible GUI. Didn’t back up my subscriptions so now I lost all my RSS links with it. :-/ Hopefully there’s an update soon, or someone has a trick to retrieve my subscriptions, at least.