Over the past 4 years, I’ve been working on an article reader, smry.ai.

For most of the time I had only a rudimentary understanding of RSS, so I didn’t think to add an RSS reader to the product.

I had never used a traditional RSS reader myself, relying on news apps like google news (which themselves are heavily reliant on RSS)

But trying RSS readers like Feedly pushed me to expand the product, and a small subset of users really liked it—it became an agglomeration of a read-it-later app and an RSS reader, which I quite liked in theory. At this point I still didn’t really understand the depth of RSS and what it’s capable of. It wasn’t clear that it is the lifeblood of every news app on the planet, custom aggregators like daily.dev, intelligence/monitoring products like Feedly Intelligence, is the primary distribution layer for the world’s podcasts, and much more.

Still, I couldn’t find myself using the RSS features in my own product until I added an API to manage RSS feeds with my local agent. This became a major unlock for me, and suddenly I had groups of feeds for competitor monitoring, developer news, and market opportunities. Even updates in my software dependencies that my agents use to improve the product.

I still wasn’t passively scrolling the RSS feeds themselves—mostly still using the reader to read individual articles my agent recommended, but my agents loved it and pushed RSS to the absolute limit, turning things I’d never expect could be feeds into feeds.

By doing this, I discovered a couple things:
1. Feeds are massively important for agents. Not just news/blogs/podcasts, but also socials, websites monitoring—almost anything can become a feed, and agents need their own ways of keeping track of what is ‘seen’ and what is new. This became a major bet for Smry, and why I’m putting a lot of effort into the API/MCP.
2. Agents can manage far more feeds than humans. An agent can easily follow and track hundreds or thousands of feeds, while for most people that takes years to accumulate.

Despite this, the product still has major issues.
1. most users still don’t know what RSS is. following feeds is weird to them, as I feel they are used to algorithmic feeds.
2. while following hundreds of feeds is fine for agents, for most consumers this is not really that useful. for consumers, it feels like they would rather follow topics (think daily.dev) or have a deeply personalized feed.

My question for you guys is how do you think I can make the product more usable to the traditional RSS reader audience, and what would make it better for non-RSS folks?

There are folks here that have a much better understanding of RSS than me—is there something obvious that I’m missing that would make it substantially better?

Is there something I can build that would make you switch from your existing RSS reader, or is there something I can build that you’d use together with your existing RSS reader?

I’ve completely fallen in love with RSS over the past few months, and feel like there’s so much to be built!

My goal here is to build something people come back to every single day, and that shapes how they discover and monitor what’s going on around them.

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Can someone help me out? I'm a complete layman when it comes to coding and IT stuff

My favorite free RSS builder (morss.it) has gone offline, so I asked Claude Opus 4.8 for alternatives. It suggested that I could self-host and run such a tool myself (which is a total mystery to me). I then asked it for a step-by-step guide, but I also asked several other AI chatbots the same question. They gave similar answers, but with slight differences. When I showed all those other plans to Claude and asked it to review them, it told me that these subtle differences were crucial, and that if I had followed what the other bots suggested, my feeds wouldn't have worked properly

Here's Claude's final response, translated from Polish to English: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/ec6edad6-d3e3-4c71-8e0f-44de4f8054d0

I don't really understand what I'll be doing here; I just want to make sure I won't break anything or create any security risks by following these steps. Do you think this plan will actually work?

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Hello,

I'm currently making a website to explore world news around the globe: [newsglobe.earth](https://newsglobe.earth) .

You can browse articles from thousands of global outlets with translated headlines and short description in English, filter by 10 topic categories, sentiment analysis (Positive, Negative and Neutral) and continent.

You can also vote whether articles are positive, neutral, or negative and click on a country to see all the outlets of it.

It's self hosted at my home, I hope you'll find it interesting.

I'm open to any critics and features suggestions.

Have a good day !

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following solution was suggested by ChatGPT (OpenAI), tested and confirmed by myself. I am a Fluent Reader user on KDE Plasma/Wayland.
Feel free to give ChatGPT this Reddit thread as context and ask it to help turn the workaround into a proper Fluent Reader implementation.

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I wanted to increase the UI size of Fluent Reader without changing the scaling of my entire KDE Plasma desktop.

Tested setup:

• Fluent Reader 1.1.4
• Flatpak: me.hyliu.fluentreader
• KDE Plasma / Wayland
• 1920×1200 display
• KDE display scaling: 100%
• GPU acceleration / DRI enabled

The problem

Fluent Reader's UI is rather small at 100% desktop scaling.

Changing KDE's display scaling to 125% works perfectly, including Fluent Reader, but of course this scales the entire desktop.

I tried several common Electron/Linux approaches:

• GDK_SCALE
• GDK_DPI_SCALE
• ELECTRON_FORCE_DEVICE_SCALE_FACTOR
• Ctrl + +
• --force-device-scale-factor=1.25
• --high-dpi-support=1 --force-device-scale-factor=1.25

The environment variables had no useful effect in my setup.

--force-device-scale-factor was worse: under Wayland, Fluent Reader opened as a very small undecorated window.

Effective workaround: scaling per CSS

During troubleshooting, ChatGPT (OpenAI) suggested a different approach: don't scale the Electron/Wayland window at all — scale Fluent Reader's web UI itself using CSS.

I tested this and can confirm that it works on my system.

Fluent Reader contains:

resources/app.asar

After unpacking it, the UI styles can be found under:

dist/styles/

Adding this to the end of dist/styles/global.css:

/* Custom Fluent Reader UI scaling */ body { zoom: 1.25; } 

and repacking app.asar gives me approximately 125% Fluent Reader UI scaling while KDE remains at 100%.

The window remains normal and decorated, and GPU acceleration continues to work.

How I did it

First find the Flatpak installation:

LOC=$(flatpak info --show-location me.hyliu.fluentreader) 

Create a working directory and copy app.asar:

mkdir -p ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar cp "$LOC/files/fluent-reader/resources/app.asar" ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/ 

Extract it using Electron's ASAR utility:

npx @electron/asar extract ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app.asar ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/unpacked 

Add the scaling rule:

printf '\n/* Custom Fluent Reader UI scaling */\nbody { zoom: 1.25; }\n' >> ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/unpacked/dist/styles/global.css npx @electron/asar pack ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/unpacked ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app-scaled.asar 

Repack it:

Before replacing anything, make a backup:

cp "$LOC/files/fluent-reader/resources/app.asar" ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app-original.asar 

Close Fluent Reader completely, then replace the ASAR:

sudo cp --remove-destination ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app-scaled.asar "$LOC/files/fluent-reader/resources/app.asar" 

Start Fluent Reader normally.

To restore the original:

sudo cp --remove-destination ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app-original.asar "$LOC/files/fluent-reader/resources/app.asar" 

Important

This is a workaround, not an official Fluent Reader feature.

Any Flatpak update will most likely replace the modified app.asar, so the modification may need to be reapplied after an update.

Also, modifying files inside a Flatpak deployment is obviously not ideal. Keep a backup and be prepared to reinstall/repair the Flatpak if necessary.

The CSS scaling approach itself, however, works surprisingly well.

It would be great if Fluent Reader eventually exposed this as an official setting, for example:

Settings → Appearance → Interface scale → 100% / 110% / 125% / 133% / 150% / ...

The technical workaround was suggested by ChatGPT (OpenAI) and tested and confirmed by myself as a real Fluent Reader user on KDE Plasma/Wayland.

If anyone tests this on GNOME/Wayland, X11, another distribution, a newer Fluent Reader release, or with another scaling factor, I'd be interested to hear the results.

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A good blog post from the founder of Open RSS: https://openrss.org/blog/government-updates-belong-in-an-open-feed

The blog's feed: https://openrss.org/blog.rss

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Hi! I need recommendations on Rss Feeders that work with LinkedIn Job Search tool. I've tried RSS.app, but when I paste the search url, I get an error message.

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Good for them telling X and their lawyers to go F themselves.
https://nitter.net/

X-cancel is already back up
https://xcancel.com/search?f=top&q=elon

This is good news.

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Hey r/rss folks,

I've been working on a Pocket replacement (Pocket shutting down pushed me).

Most new tools use LLMs to extract article text, but I found they rewrite/mangle the source and add latency + cost.

So I went old-school:

- paragraph density scoring

- <article> / <main> tag tree analysis

- text-to-link ratio filtering

It's deterministic, offline-first, and keeps original text verbatim. No AI.

It is live at https://fetchmarkapp.com and I wrote up the parsing logic on blog.fetchmarkapp.com

Question for this community:

How are you handling full-text extraction for RSS feeds? Are you using Mozilla's Readability.js, custom heuristics, or something else? I'm trying to improve handling for heavy JS sites.

Would love to compare notes.

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Just a thought I had this afternoon: with publishers and websites rapidly loosing the traffic that search engines once brought to their pages, and end users turning more and more to AI for answers and news, is it possible RSS will see a big comeback?

I think a lot of publishers removed support for feeds thinking it was a freeloading that took visitors away from their home pages that otherwise would have been visited by bookmark in the browser directly or via Google searches. But now fewer people are searching on Google and if they do, they get AI answers anyway and never click through. So the appeal of SEO wil likely be reduced over time.

RSS, and possibly e-mail newsletters, might be the only way publishers can get their content seen in a more direct way that might encourage click-through. I doubt many users are clicking through when AI cites them as a reference.

Might also be the case that some content would want to optimize for AI scraping just because that might soon be the only way content is consumed. They may want a programatic way to at least get their pages "read" by AI scrapers and RSS or some similar type of distribution could be something they come up with for agents to have a pipeline without the overhead issues of direct scraping.

Just spitting here. Any thoughts about this? Open to being pointed out for being wrong too.

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Seeking advice. What’s the best RSS reader that uses AI to make summaries and combines AI in a helpful way?

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Hey everyone!

A while back I shared Fetchmark, an offline-first bookmark manager I built to escape cloud bloat and subscription fatigue.

​Since many of you suggested it, I just shipped a brand-new feature: a local audio reader that reads saved articles aloud directly in your browser.

​Why Build This?

​Most read-later or text-to-speech tools rely on heavy paid cloud text-to-speech APIs (like ElevenLabs or AWS Polly) which drive up maintenance costs and add latency. Since Fetchmark is built around local-first data and deterministic DOM parsing, I wanted a native solution that didn't require external cloud dependencies for text extraction or audio generation.

​How It Works

1. ​Web Speech API Integration: It taps directly into the browser's native speech synthesis engine, meaning zero per-character API costs and lightning-fast playback initialization.

2. ​Clean Text Pipeline: Because Fetchmark's DOM parser already strips out ads, sidebars, and clutter, the audio reader only feeds the clean article body into the speech engine—no getting tripped up by navigation menus or cookie banners.

3. ​Seamless Reading Loop: You can save an article on the go using the extension, open your reader view, and hit play to listen to long-form tech deep dives while working or walking.

​I'd love for anyone interested in offline tooling or local-first apps to take it for a spin at https://fetchmarkapp.com and let me know how the audio reader handles your favorite long-form articles or documentation pages.

​How do you usually handle listening to articles while coding or working? Would love to hear your thoughts or feedback!

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Most "glassmorphism" is backdrop-filter: blur(). Real glass doesn't scatter light, it bends it: the centre stays clear and the edge pulls the background inward. I wanted that on the web without WebGL

Demo (Chromium): https://vii-cae.github.io/hyalite--liquid-glass/demo/index.html

Repo (MIT): https://github.com/VII-Cae/hyalite--liquid-glass

How it works, in four lines:

- A signed distance field of the element's rounded rect (per-corner radii) gives every pixel its depth from the edge.

- Snell's law on a beveled slab turns depth into a lateral offset. That becomes a displacement map (R = x, G = y, B = rim light), built for the element's exact size.

- One SVG filter: feImage → feGaussianBlur → feDisplacementMap → rim light, applied through backdrop-filter: url(#id). The browser bends whatever is behind the element, live.

- The JS watches the DOM: attach on insert, rebuild after a resize settles, ramp the lensing in ("materialize") instead of fading.

The part I think is actually interesting: every SVG-filter liquid glass I've seen has stair-stepped edges, and it's not the map — Chromium's feDisplacementMap samples with nearest-neighbour (Skia pins it to kNearest, skbug 40045448). A 6× stretch at the rim copies each source pixel into a 6px block. The fix in 0.3.0 splits the field into two displacement passes of ~2.5× each, with a small blur masked to the bevel ring in between. The two tables compose exactly to the one-pass field; the centre never sees the blur. Before/after in the README.

Honest limits:

- Chromium only. Safari drops the SVG part of backdrop-filter (implementation in review), Firefox renders the element unfiltered — so the library writes nothing there and your CSS fallback (a plain blur) wins.

- Each glass surface is its own render layer. A few on screen is fine; hundreds are not.

Would love to hear where it breaks on your layouts.

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Is there any news or what is the alternative?

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I've been using the same PNG image for my podcast on rss.com for a few months now and all of a sudden it thinks that it's transparent and won't let me use it. I tried a different image and it thinks that is transparent, too. I did what it asked and put a solid layer behind it, but it STILL thinks it's transparent, and I 100% know it isn't. Has anyone else come up with this issue?

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I still use RSS heavily for checking websites and social media, but getting public X/Twitter profiles into an RSS reader has become unnecessarily complicated. Most solutions either depend on third-party services or require API access.

So I built xsukax X RSS Generator, a small open-source tool that turns public X profiles into standard RSS 2.0 feeds.

The goal was to keep it simple enough that I could drop it onto a normal PHP server and forget about it.

Main features:

• Self-hosted PHP + SQLite
• Essentially a single index.php application
• Generates RSS 2.0 feeds from public X profiles
• No X API keys, OAuth, or developer account required
• No Composer or external database server
• No cURL dependency
• Extracts post text, links, timestamps, and supported images
• Supports media-only posts
• Per-profile SQLite caching
• HTTP caching with ETag / 304 support
• Keeps previously cached posts available if a later refresh fails
• Built-in per-IP rate limiting
• Simple web interface
• Direct RSS URLs for use in RSS readers and automation tools
• Works with standard RSS clients such as FreshRSS, Miniflux, NetNewsWire, Feedly, NewsBlur, Thunderbird, etc.

There is no background worker or cron job either. The feed refreshes when requested after the configured cache interval expires.

One important limitation: it parses publicly available X HTML rather than using the official API. That means changes to X's markup, anti-bot systems, or access policies can temporarily break fetching. I kept the X-specific selectors together in the code so they can be updated relatively easily when that happens.

It's licensed under GPL-3.0.

GitHub:
https://github.com/xsukax/xsukax-X-RSS-Generator

I'm the developer, so this is obviously self-promotion, but I'm mainly interested in technical feedback from people who actually use RSS/self-hosted feed tools.

I'd particularly be interested to know:

• how reliably it works from different servers/regions
• how the generated feeds behave in different RSS readers
• whether the caching defaults make sense
• whether there are X post types I'm currently missing
• anything you'd change in the security or deployment model

Issues and PRs are welcome.

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Basically, I built it to replace Reeder Classic on my Apple devices. I don’t want to spam the subreddit, but if you’re looking for an RSS reader built with Apple’s latest frameworks and UI, including Liquid Glass, give it a look. I wrote a long technical post with videos and screenshots here: Lettura: an app to read FreshRSS feeds | etcetera

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Hi,

Who's having trouble with YouTube channel RSS feeds? They haven't been working for the past few hours.

The requested URL /feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCkC_Cb6CUnO6BMYyAPFR1mw was not found on this server

Is there another way to access them?

Thank you

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Since everyone is launching their app, I have spent longs hours with no break to vibe code the RSS feature for the future. Fable 5 seriously crazy impressive ngl.

Obviously this is still early for enterprise grade but cloud infra is currently running local and stable for personal use.

Check the app out here - http://localhost:8080

Not gonna bore you with 2008 features like local-first and keyboard shortcuts. Here are some actually next-gen RSS features.

• Agentic Reader — AI agents read your feeds, extract what matters, and suggest you to skip, skim or read.
• Retina Noise Suppression — tracks what you look at, skip, and abandon to predict what you never want to see again.
• Real-time tracking — Get updates as soon publishers hit "post". 82% feeds can be tracked as the article is being written (buggy feature).
• Universal Full-Text — reconstructs the complete article even when content is down or removed.
• Paywall Negotiator — detects gated content and finds a way to retrieve the full article.
• Universal Feed Discovery — Beyond open discovers feeds across the deep and dark web
• Future-Context Injection — Add context from all sources even "what might happen in future type of thing" with single click
• Event Horizon — detects a developing story across hundreds of feeds before it becomes “news.”
• Feed Twin — learns what you would subscribe to if you had infinite time and continuously discovers feeds accordingly.
• Knowledge Decay — resurfaces old articles exactly when the information becomes relevant again.
• Zero-Feed Mode — stop subscribing to feeds. Tell the reader what you care about and let it build your feed graph for you.

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Just a heads up. PolitePol has decreased the max amount of active feeds for free tier users to only 3 today, a massive downgrade from 20.

If you have more than 3 active feeds and suddenly many or most of them stopped working, this is why.

The 3 feeds that remain active are randomly selected and all remaining ones are moved to "frozen" tab. You will need to login to PolitePol then choose the 3 most desired feeds there, and move other feeds to any other alternative RSS generator sites.

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I've long wanted to have a tool where I see only the news I'm interested in but also don't miss anything important happening in the world. So I built a platform that aggregates news from several sources, analyzes and ranks them by importance, and sends them in a once-a-day digest.

There is an RSS feed that has just the most important news globally, and also customizable Telegram bots.

Website with the links to RSS feeds and others: https://basicnews.world

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What it does: grab RSS feeds, get them back without the clickbait headlines and blurbs.

https://github.com/janw76/pintxos

Example:

• Original title: "Netflix's Renewed Sci-Fi Thriller With Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score Officially Hits A Filming Milestone". But which show? What milestone? Argh 🤯!
• Pintxøs output: "Netflix's Supacell completes season 2 filming"

Garbage in, sanity out.

Pintxøs adds a ≤100 word summary and republishes a new RSS feed you can subscribe to in your aggregator of choice, with the new title, the summary, and a link to the original article.

Self-hosted in Docker, MIT licensed, bring your own Anthropic API key. Vibe-coded with Claude.

Maybe some of you find it useful too. I know there are a lot of amazing AI-driven RSS tools already. I just have a soft spot for tools that do one or two things only.

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I read too much news, and I noticed I was doing the same two things over and over: nodding along at stuff I already agreed with, and getting irritated by stuff I didn't. At no point was I actually clocking *how* either one was written.

So here I am with this thing called Veritype. It's a Chrome extension. You right-click an article — or highlight just the paragraph you're suspicious about — and a panel opens beside the page.

It'll tell you roughly where the piece sits left-to-right, but honestly the score is the least interesting part. The useful bit is underneath: which specific words are doing the persuading, who got quoted and who conspicuously didn't, what's been left out. Then it writes you the strongest version of the argument on the other side. Not a strawman it can knock over. The actual best case. I've also tried to add some more and more interesting features over the past couple of releases (1.2.0 is currently submitted for review).

There's also a Similar Sources panel that finds the same story covered elsewhere and shows you where those outlets sit, in case you fancy reading the version that will annoy you.

There's things it's bad at, which you'd find out anyway, so I may as well go first:

\- It is not a fact-checker. It has no idea whether anything in the article is true. Framing and accuracy are two different problems and I have gestured at one of them.

\- Bias by omission — the story nobody ran, the expert nobody phoned — is the most important kind, and it's the kind it's worst at. Turns out it's pretty dang hard to spot what isn't there.

\- Paywalls and PDFs stump it. It just sits there looking useless.

\- Run the same article twice and you get slightly different wording and a slightly different number. It's a language model, not a set of scales.

\- One article is not a verdict on an outlet. Someone is going to screenshot a single result as proof that their least favourite newspaper is Officially Biased, and I'm going to have to live with that.

Free tier is 10 a day, no card, no trial that quietly becomes a subscription. Pro's $5.99/mo if you go past that. You can also paste in your own Anthropic API key and pay them directly instead of me, which is admittedly a strange thing to build a button for, but it felt wrong not to.

[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/veritype-%E2%80%94-bias-counterar/oahnjchonclpammpbapdchgjbnpmljjo\](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/veritype-%E2%80%94-bias-counterar/oahnjchonclpammpbapdchgjbnpmljjo)

[www.veritype.app\](http://www.veritype.app)

I'd genuinely rather have the criticism than the upvotes — especially if you hit an article where the read is just flatly wrong. Those are the ones I can actually do something with. SERIOUSLY, this is my first real release so go ahead and give me some feedback. Ideas for features are welcome as well. This is pretty niche, and I know it. If you read this far, thanks!!

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Hi — I’m the developer of AI Coach.

AI Coach started as a native macOS desktop companion, but its RSS reader has become one of the most practical parts of the app.

It supports RSS 2.0 and Atom, feed discovery from regular website URLs, OPML import/export, unread and starred smart feeds, search, a local article cache, and Vim-style j/k navigation. The default view is a visual “latest picks” layout rather than a traditional inbox-only list.

The unusual part is how it connects to the desktop character: you can drag a website URL onto the character to subscribe, and it can present new articles in a speech bubble, summarize them, or add a short reaction. Article speech, summaries, and reactions can all be disabled independently, so it also works as a quiet conventional reader.

The app itself is free and includes one egg. There is no subscription; only additional eggs are optional one-time purchases.

One important detail: the app begins with an egg, and the RSS reader is unlocked as the character grows. The current Mac release requires macOS 26 or later and Apple Silicon.

Screenshots and details:

https://aic0t.com/#rss

I’d especially appreciate feedback from people who already use OPML and keyboard-driven RSS workflows.

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Hey everyone, 👋

I left the big social feeds because the recommendation algorithm kept serving me the same thing many times over, plus a steady supply of outright garbage. So I did what a lot of you did: went to RSS, where I pick the sources.

That fixed the inputs. It did not fix the reading.

Once you are past thirty or forty feeds, a purely chronological timeline stops being usable. The usual answer is more folders and more filters — which is me doing an algorithm's job by hand, badly.

Sitting with that for a while, the conclusion I reached was that the algorithm is a fixable problem now, for a reason that did not exist a few years ago: you can hand an AI a sentence about what you want and have it come out as a real change to a ranking function.

So: your own sources, and your own algorithm on top of them. That is the thing I built.

What it does

• Retune the ranking by saying it: "less crypto", or "more AI research". Tell your feed what matters. It re-ranks on the spot. Use AI agents to retune ranking in plain language.
• The ranking core is open: MIT, zero dependencies, at https://github.com/Feedpik-app/Algorithm The server imports that package directly, so the scoring you'd be subject to is the scoring you can read.
• AI helps you find feeds. Cold start is the other thing that keeps RSS niche. Ask for sources on a subject and it proposes them.
• Your own agent (Openclaw, Hermes, Codex, Claude Code, etc.) can drive all of it over an API, MCP or CLI, using your model quota rather than mine.

Other useful features

• Newsletter Reader — An email address just for newsletters, so they leave your inbox and sit with your feeds.
• Daily Briefing — A summary of each story that mattered today.
• Trending Radar — Surfaces the stories heating up.
• AI Summary — Get the gist of a long piece in seconds
• AI Translate — Read anything in your own language
• AI Explain — What an article is about and why it matters, in plain language, when the field is new to you
• Ask AI — Ask questions about the piece you're reading and get answers drawn from it.

The awkward parts, up front

• The app by now is closed source and hosted. * Where it's headed is a desktop version that runs entirely on your machine — your data, your algorithm, your API key or a local LLM — open source and free. It does not exist yet, and it comes after the hosted version.
• A lot of this isn't finished. The paid tiers aren't open yet, which means the features behind them aren't available yet. Finishing them is what I'm working on.

You can check it out here:
https://feedpik.com/

I would love to get your feedback, feature suggestions, or any bug reports! Thank you for checking it out.

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After many years of using Feedly and being happy, they have now broke it. The articles show up on the side and are cut off. They have no way of giving them feedback on this issue.

What is the next best simple RSS reader?

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I’m using FreshRSS and trying to get RSS feeds from Associated Press and Reuters, but the usual methods aren’t working properly.

Since they’ve deprecated their official feeds, what’s the best way to get them now? Any working tricks, APIs, or alternatives?

Thanks!

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As I'm trying to escape the creeping negative influence of technology in my life, I want to make a commitment to limiting the amount of time I spend on social media apps, especially the awful invention that is "infinite scroll".

I believe fighting the addiction to my phone would be a *lot* easier if I could simply combine all of my followed profiles on YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit into *one feed* which is chronological and doesn't insist on feeding me garbage I didnt ask for.

However, it seems like doing so is difficult, because big tech companies deliberately make it impossible to view content outside of their walled garden.

I would love if someone could provide pointers for how a dumbass like me can synthesize all of the content I find interesting in one place. I am willing to try any solution, no matter how hacky, to make it happen. (I am on Android if that's relevant.)

Any tips are appreciated 🙏🙏

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I recently started using RSS and self hosted FreshRSS, and I’m really liking it so far.

One thing I’m trying to figure out is Hacker News. When I add it to FreshRSS, it only shows the original source link instead of the actual news or article content.

Is there any way to get the news content directly in FreshRSS without having to open the original links every time?

Any tips or recommended setup?

EDIT: The same thing is happening with Phoronix. It’s showing the title and short description instead of the full article.

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Radar RSS v0.0.6-beta delivers complete Light Theme optimization across all UI components, fixing contrast and illegibility issues, and refining color palettes and borders.

https://github.com/dznass-cmd/RadarRSS/releases/tag/v0.0.6-beta

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San Francisco Bay area newspapers owned by MediaNews Group (East Bay Times, Mercury News, Marin Independent Journal) have for a long time published RSS feeds for various sections of their sites. For example, the source code for the Mercury News homepage currently includes the following link to an article feed:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Mercury News &raquo; Feed" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/feed/" /> 

My feed reader software indicates that these feeds all quit working on March 9th. When I try to load any of them directly in my browser, I get an HTTP 403 error.

Does anyone know what happened and how we might get them to fix it? I tried contacting them via a form but never heard back.

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What's New in v0.0.5

⚡ Instant App Startup (< 50ms)

• Offline-First Stale-While-Revalidate Engine: Articles and headlines are now cached in local persistent storage, enabling immediate paint upon launch with zero blank screens or perceived network delays.
• Instant Electron Window Launch: BrowserWindow displays in under 30ms with dark theme (#0a0b0e) to eliminate white flashes.

👈👉 Fluid Swipe Story Navigation

• Horizontal Swipe Gestures: In the Story Reader modal, swipe Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left (or use keyboard arrows / UI buttons) to seamlessly flip through stories with smooth slide animations and haptic feedback.

🖼️ Universal RSS Image Loading & Layout Previews

https://github.com/dznass-cmd/RadarRSS/releases/tag/v0.0.5

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Hey r/rss!

A few days ago, I posted here introducing RadarRSS—an open-source, AI-curated modern news dashboard aimed at reimagining how we consume RSS feeds.

Thanks to the valuable feedback and discussion on my previous post, I just pushed a new release with several improvements to make the experience cleaner, faster, and more practical:

Refined Dashboard UI: Polished the feed layout to minimize clutter and give a true "modern newsroom" feel instead of a plain feed list.

Smarter AI Curation & Summaries: Fine-tuned the AI categorization and summarization layer to highlight key takeaways faster and reduce redundant articles.

Better Feed Organization: Enhanced auto-tagging and filtering so you can easily track high-priority topics across multiple feeds.

Performance & Stability Tweaks: Optimized feed fetching and overall responsiveness.

The goal is still to build a lightweight, open-source alternative for anyone looking for something more dynamic than traditional readers like FreshRSS, Miniflux, or Feedly.

🔗 Release & Source Code: https://github.com/dznass-cmd/RadarRSS

Would love to hear your thoughts on these updates—especially regarding the layout and AI curation flow. Any suggestions on what to tackle next?

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I've always liked RSS, but I wanted something that felt more like a modern news dashboard instead of a traditional feed reader.

So I built RadarRSS.

The idea is simple:

• Monitor multiple RSS feeds
• Automatically organize news into categories
• Highlight relevant stories
• Use AI to help summarize and curate content
• Keep everything centralized in one interface
• Open source under MIT

It's still an early project, so I'm mainly looking for feedback.

What I'd really like to know:

What would make you actually switch from FreshRSS, Miniflux, Newsboat, Feedly, etc.?

GitHub: https://github.com/dznass-cmd/RadarRSS

I'd especially appreciate criticism about the UI, RSS workflow and AI features.

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I an setting up rss feed news on my ios device and i downloaded few and liked these two. (Not downloaded news exp. cuz its not free to try).

Has anyone used both or any? Can anyone share advise on this

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I think the title pretty much sums it up. I used to get feeds from a few profiles on X, as I'd rather have everything centralised, searchable and archivable rather than just go to X to search for specific posts from people I wanna read everything. So, any (free) alternatives to Nitter/XCalcel so I can turn X's posts into RSS?

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I want to buy podcast subscriptions to get rid of ads. Unfortunately most providers no longer offer rss feeds for itunes (they used to) I like adding the private RSS because you can download the mp3 and put it on and old mp3 player, like the tiny clip-on shuffle mp3 player. I don't like carrying phones or looking at screens when I'm exercising.

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I wanted an RSS reader that didn't turn my reading list into someone's dataset. Most Chrome extensions want an account and sync your subscriptions to their servers, so I built my own.

Canopy Reader has no backend at all. Feeds and read state live in chrome.storage, and the extension makes exactly one kind of network request — to the feeds you added yourself. No account, no analytics, no paid tier. About 50 KB.

Three-panel layout, RSS 2.0 and Atom, feed autodiscovery from a site URL, folders, OPML import/export, unread badges, background refresh, j/k/r/m/u/o keyboard nav, light/dark.

What it doesn't have: a filtering rules engine, social/YouTube feed adapters, or cross-device sync (that needs a server, which defeats the point).

Coming from another reader — import your OPML and subscriptions and folders come across in one step.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/canopy-reader-rss-feed-re/lnfnfpjiohnjlmagagpokbadejelnflg

I wrote it, so salt accordingly. Mainly after feedback on what's missing.

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I have been working on PressPlayed, a mobile-first RSS reader built for listening instead of scanning.

You can select publishers you already trust and group their feeds into briefings. If the subject matters more than the publisher, you can also enter something like “housing market” or “Fed interest rates”; PressPlayed finds relevant current coverage across sources and builds the briefing. Articles are extracted server-side and narrated continuously in the browser.

It also supports a narrator choice, language filtering, a minimum article length, played-article skipping, and muted words or phrases.

I would especially value feedback from people who already care about RSS:

1. Does the source-versus-briefing model feel intuitive?
2. Which portability features matter most to you—OPML import/export, visible raw feed URLs, or something else?

There is a public audio sample and a short mobile tour here: https://pressplayed.com/tour.html?utm_source=reddit-rss&utm_campaign=first100

Access is free and does not require a credit card. I run this account for the product and am happy to answer technical or product questions.

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Hey everyone,

I've been working on NewsGator, an open-source project I'd like to share with you.

The problem

You follow 50 RSS feeds in 5 different languages, get 12 newsletters a day, and end up reading nothing because sorting through it all takes too much time. Traditional aggregators give you 3-line teasers, you click through, find 10 articles about the same thing, and you've wasted 20 minutes.

What NewsGator does

• Ingests your RSS/ATOM feeds and keeps everything, even after restart;
• Fetches full article content — not just the teaser, the actual text with images;
• Summarizes and generates an honest title in your language, regardless of the source language;
• Groups articles by event: 10 articles about the same story = 1 "Story" with a summary that evolves as new facts come in;
• Swipe interface on mobile (installable PWA);
• Transparency dashboard: token cost and LLM latency visible in real time.

Stack: FastAPI + SQLite (+ sqlite-vec or Qdrant) + SvelteKit, single docker compose.

> 🔗 Demo & docs: https://tekka90.github.io/NewsGator/
> 🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/Tekka90/NewsGator

⚠️ Warning: this project uses AI

I want to be upfront about this:

• Summaries can be wrong or biased. An LLM is not a source of truth. NewsGator is a triage tool, not an information source. You trust the summary to decide whether it's worth digging into, then you verify at the source.
• I strongly recommend running the LLM locally. NewsGator is provider-agnostic: any OpenAI-compatible LLM works — Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, MLX, or a paid API if you prefer. But ideally, run a model locally. No leaking your reading habits, no recurring costs, no dependency on an external service.
• A small local model is enough for summarizing articles — you don't need a giant model.
• If you do go with a paid API, everything is measured (tokens + latency per call) with a "price playground" to estimate costs.

The project is open source — feel free to ask questions, share feedback, or contribute.

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Does anyone knows a in-the-wild server shipping newsfeeds and supporting "A-IM" ("IM: feed")?

https://http.dev/a-im

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a Chrome extension I recently developed called RSS Bulucu (RSS Finder).

It is designed to be a lightweight, modern, and powerful tool that automatically scans the website you are visiting to discover any open or hidden RSS and Atom feeds within seconds.

Key Features:

• Smart Scanning: Instantly detects all available feeds on the current page.
• Lightweight: Only 61.3 KiB in size, so it won't bloat your browser.
• Privacy-focused: No data is sold to third parties or used for unrelated purposes.

The extension currently supports Turkish, but the UI is highly intuitive and easy to use for anyone looking to hunt down feed URLs.

You can check it out here on the Chrome Web Store:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rss-bulucu/icjlhipjnfkdngpinmakhkcnfjnjdhbi?hl=tr

I would love to get your feedback, feature suggestions, or any bug reports! Thank you for checking it out.

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Hi, Is there a way to get historical news data free?
I have been using google news rss and newsapi org
both has its own restriction, large number of google news call result in ip getting marked as spam and news api can go back only 1 month in free tier.

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I'm building an interactive macroeconomic world map. I've hit a dead end with raw web scraping, Google News search parameters (which fail to isolate country context), and GDELT.
I need to surface 3–5 fresh macro/econ headlines when a user clicks a country. Since commercial APIs are expensive and client-side RSS is unreliable:
1 - Is caching pre-fetched direct national RSS feeds (WSJ, BBC, Reuters) via a daily cron job the standard pattern here?
2 - Are there open-source scrapers or self-hosted news aggregation pipelines (like FreshRSS/Miniflux setups) that handle geographic mapping cleanly?
Idk what to do anymore at this stage, any ideas?

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https://nitter.net/

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Hi everyone,

I’m getting ready to launch a new RSS reader on Google Play, and I’m looking for a few RSS users who would be willing to join the closed testing group and try the app on their Android phones, tablets, or Chromebooks.

Google Play requires a closed testing period before the app can move forward with its public release, so your help would be genuinely appreciated.

The app will be paid when it is publicly released, but I plan to give complimentary access to the people who help by participating in this testing group.

If you’d like to join, please send me your Google Play email address via private message so I can add you to the tester list. Please don’t post your email publicly in the comments.

Once you’ve been added, I’ll send you a private message with the Google Play testing link and simple instructions on how to install the app.

You don’t need to do anything complicated. Just using the app normally and letting me know if you encounter bugs, crashes, layout issues, or anything that feels confusing would already be a huge help.

Thanks to anyone willing to participate!

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