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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Hi there!

My favourite full text RSS feed provider moRSS.it has recently been malfunctioning (https://github.com/pictuga/morss/issues/154).

I've been wondering ever since whether there are any other tools like moRSS.it online, that allow anyone to make a full text RSS feed from any webpage FOR FREE.

Do you have any ideas? Thanks in advance

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I genuinely think RSS is more relevant than ever in 2026.

There’s so much content online now, and RSS is still one of the few ways to say: these are the people and websites I actually want to hear from.

No algorithm trying to guess what else might keep me scrolling. If I follow soccer, I want soccer - not hockey, random influencers, or whatever else an algorithm wants to test on me.

I use RSS every day for work, hobbies, and keeping up with writers I like. And despite all the AI-generated noise, there are still plenty of people writing genuinely good articles on their own blogs (http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss, https://daringfireball.net/feeds/main , https://simonwillison.net/atom/entries/ , https://pluralistic.net/feed/) among many others.

The one thing that always bothered me: if someone I care about publishes something, I usually won’t know until I remember to check my RSS app.

That’s basically why I built Hushread.

It keeps checking the sources you follow even while you’re asleep. Under the hood, I run a VPS with proxies that keeps polling the pages you follow. The moment it finds something new, if you’ve turned notifications on for that source, you get a push notification.

That’s it. No big AI pitch, no fluff. This was genuinely the problem I wanted solved for myself.

I’d love more actual RSS users to try it, so I’m giving away 50 Pro accounts ($14.99/year) to people who comment here.

No review or 5-star rating needed. I’d much rather hear what you genuinely like or hate about it.

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Hey everyone! I’m an independent Android developer and I built World News Reader to make following global RSS feeds and international news clean, fast, and distraction-free—without algorithms or clutter.

I just rolled out an update with features specifically tailored for RSS power users and wanted to share it with the community.

Core Features & What's New:

• 📥 OPML Support: 1-tap OPML import/export for seamless feed backup & instant article pre-fetch.
• 🎙️ Podcasts & TTS: Full iTunes podcast artwork integration, in-app audio player, and TTS audio playback for hands-free listening.
• 🛡️ Anti-Bot Fallback: Direct "Open in Browser" mode for feeds protected by Cloudflare/anti-bot walls.
• 📖 Customizable Reader: In-article font choices, reader themes (Material 3 / Dark Mode), and full browser display options.
• ⏱️ 2-Minute Smart Briefings: Concise, curated digests to stay updated quickly without doomscrolling.
• 🌍 Expanded Coverage: Added curated regional feeds for Mexico, Bosnia, Estonia, Finland, N. Macedonia, Andorra & Luxembourg alongside existing global sources.
• 👥 Community Feeds: Integrated user-suggested blogs and tech sources.
• 📱 Offline & Widgets: Cache-first architecture for fast offline access and home screen widgets.
• 🌟 PRO Tier: Auto purchase sync across devices, PRO badge, and an entirely ad-free reading experience.

👉 Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.merpower.worldnewsreader

I'd love to hear your feedback, feed recommendations, or ideas on what RSS-specific tools you'd like to see next. If you'd like to follow the roadmap or suggest feeds directly, feel free to drop by r/MerpowerApps.

If you find the app useful, an honest rating or review on Google Play really helps support continuous solo development!

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I built WechRss because WeChat OA has no official RSS. It identifies the account from any article link, logs in via Weread QR, and generates independent RSS feeds stored in local SQLite. Default bind is localhost, supports Basic Auth/CSRF. Doesn't scrape full text. MIT. Repo: https://github.com/johamwon/wechrss

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I made Nook, a native RSS reader for Mac and iPhone. It also writes.

The reading half is boring in the best way: folders, OPML in and out, offline storage, reader mode, regex keyword filters, refreshes on the OS scheduler instead of a push service.
I invented nothing here, I just kept adding whatever annoyed me that week. No account, and nothing about reading phones home.

The writing half is the interesting part. Publish a post and it becomes a record in your own AT Protocol repository, the same kind a Bluesky account has.
The page and the feeds are generated from that record, which is the real copy rather than a row in my database, so you can take it and leave. Microblog, normal blog, or yelling into the void with a valid feed, all fine.

You will check the feed anyway, so: full post in content:encoded, guid is the record's AT URI with isPermaLink="false", Atom beside every RSS.
Mine: https://nooker.app/@tim/feed.xml

"Will this be gone in six months?" Fair question. I read with it every day, so my reason to keep it alive is selfish, and I run it cheap on purpose. Whatever it does today, I plan to keep doing. If the bill ever gets scary, it means I either got greedy with features or this got popular, and if it is the second one I will gladly go find the money.

Reading is free, no ads, no subscription. Publishing needs an invite code for now and there is an open one on the download page. Needs macOS 26 or iOS 18, and on an older Mac with Apple silicon the iOS build works too.

Download: https://www.nooker.app/download/
Apps are MIT: https://github.com/nooker-app/nook

Tell me what is broken, especially in the feeds.

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I wanted to follow RSS feeds without opening another website every time.

So I added an RSS/Atom reader directly into my Chrome new-tab workspace.

The idea is that your new tab can become a small information dashboard instead of just a search box.

You can have:

RSS/Atom feeds
Bookmarks
Notes
Tasks
Pomodoro
Search
Workspaces

The extension is ARC Tab, and the core workspace is local-first with no account, backend, analytics or telemetry.

The RSS reader is currently one of my favourite parts because I can open a new tab and immediately see the feeds I actually care about.

Curious what RSS workflows other people use.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/arc-tab-%E2%80%94-your-new-tab-or/cfalnmddmncikdglpppjlemlepgjailn

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I've updated my feedland page with 13 aggregator and firehose feeds from Bear Blog, Pinboard, Scour, Hacker News and others.

A good way to use these is to put them all in one folder in your reader and filter for keywords based on your interests.

Full list of feeds and link on my blog:

https://paul.tinypost.blog/aggregating-the-aggregators

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Hi everyone,

For anyone looking for a simple, native feed reader on iOS that respects open standards and data ownership, I made Leggo.

It's standard-friendly:

1. Supports RSS, Atom, and JSON Feeds: Parses links directly with a live feed preview before adding.
2. Data Portability: Full JSON export and import so you are never locked into the app.
3. Native iCloud Sync: Seamlessly keeps subscriptions and read/unread status synchronized between iPhone and iPad without requiring a third-party aggregator service (like Feedly or Inoreader).
4. Background Refresh: Quietly fetches articles in the background so your feeds are ready when you open the app.

It’s completely free on the App Store without ads or tracking.

You can check out screenshots and details here: https://leggo-rss.fizban.net/

Suggestions and feature requests are very welcome!

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Wanted to share this here since it's a fairly literal use of RSS: YouTube still exposes a per-channel RSS feed even though it's not advertised anywhere. My app (Focus Feed) uses those feeds to pull new uploads instead of going through YouTube's API or algorithm — so you just get a plain chronological list of what channels you follow have posted, no recommendations, no autoplay.

It also supports per-channel keyword filters on the RSS titles, and you can pull a whole playlist's feed in at once. No account or sign-in needed, it's just consuming public feeds.

Curious if anyone here has run into limitations with YouTube's RSS feeds (delay before new uploads show up, missing metadata, etc) — happy to compare notes.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.focusfeed.app

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Hi r/rss, a quick update on Newsairy, the iCloud-native RSS reader I've been building. It's been a few releases since I last posted here (1.11 in July), so a quick recap before the headline:

• 1.12 — add a feed by pasting the website's address, not just the feed's; Newsairy finds it for you
• 1.13 — a rebuild of how the app shares state under the hood, much faster large archives (tested with 150,000 articles), and a Shortcuts action to add a feed from outside the app
• 1.14 — full YouTube channel support (video, description and thumbnail, right in the article), and a fix for an Inoreader sync bug where read/starred state stopped syncing once your account had nothing left unread or unstarred

And now 1.15 adds an Article Info sheet, opened from any article's context menu: where it's from (the feed's name and which archive it lives in — local, iCloud, or one of the aggregators), its published/updated/read dates, its read and starred state (switchable right there), and when retention will remove it. Feed Info also picked up two more lines: the feed's format (RSS, Atom, JSON) and the date of its newest archived article, so a feed that's gone quiet gives itself away at a glance.

I built it mostly for smart feeds and folders, where an article shows up without the usual context of "which feed is this from again?" - now that's one tap away instead of a guess.

For anyone who hasn't come across it: Newsairy syncs over iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Pro adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader. One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no tracking.

I have a long todo list, but I'm always open to suggestions - if there's a feature or a use case you'd like to see, let me know.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsairy/id6760046985

More info on the site: https://qebapps.statichost.page/newsairy/

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I built Across News App 🌉

I used to use Pulse News, and I really loved its unique carousel-style layout. It was dense, quick to scan, and made it easy to keep up with the sources I already cared about.

When I couldn't find that experience anymore, I decided to build my own take on it.

Across is a simple, dense news reader that helps you stay in sync with the sources you care about — without endless scrolling.

Just launched on Android. Would love to hear what you think!

📱 Google Play link

More coming Across.

Please do support in any way you can, it is a hobby project but I have poured my heart and soul into this ❤️

Let me know any feedback you guys have. This community is the most apt place I need feedback from🙏

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Hi,

I’m looking for a good free RSS reader where I can collect updates from different websites and sources in one place.

A few questions:

• What free RSS reader would you recommend?
• Is there any good way to follow LinkedIn pages/profiles through an RSS reader?
• What about websites that don’t have their own RSS feed? Is there a good service that can create an RSS feed from a normal webpage and then send updates to my RSS reader?
• Ideally, I want the tool to generate a normal RSS URL/feed, which I can then simply add to Inoreader or another RSS reader.

Basically, I want the self-hosted tool to handle the scraping/feed generation, while Inoreader remains my actual RSS reader.

Ideally, I’d like something simple where I can follow a mix of news sites, industry websites, LinkedIn and other pages without checking everything manually .

Any recommendations?

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Even when logged in as suggested here https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/6/3.html as workaround for rate limits.

The new reddit rss feeds still work, though

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Let’s say I applied to YC. With a really BIG idea! Like everyone thinks that their idea is big enough to apply to YC. At least I assume it.

My idea is follow(object);

Okay, I really applied to YC with this idea and… of course I check my email everyday, idk why but I also followed their social media account’s YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. Like to be ready if something happens You know, to say “Yes, I already follow You”.

I clicked the links in their website footer, and followed in each platform separately. YC Instagram: follow. YC YouTube: follow. And…

So, now notifications and follow in many platforms completely broken. It’s more like “power-like”, “we see that you REALLY INTERESTED in this Object.”

I really followed YC in Instagram. Of course all notifications from social media app are switched off, and we know why. You think when I opened insta they showed me last YC post? No. Trending video OR/AND an ad.

So, what if I’ll create a backend that can read channels and deliver signals, not whole content, just “published”. So this backend will be able to read all channels and deliver everywhere.

Through simple API I’ll create my bot in Telegram, that will send me notification every time in my conditions (when, how, what etc), when YC do something towards me: publish new posts, send me an email, like my post, etc. And what if I want only email, but able to see new posts by demand. I can switch off TikTok and Instagram now, and then re-activate them. Follow(YC);

And remember these backend can work with every app. So what if I want to get this updates from YC in… let’s say WhatsApp, or WeChat instead of Telegram, or…? Whatever, right?

That’s how it became DirectFlow.

ObjectD.channel.output -> ObjectF.channel.input. Everyone can change their output AND input channels.

So I started the project with this goal, and call it DirectFlow. First real implementation is here https://directfollow.com

Recently add Slack as delivery. I mean, an input channel. It means technically You can get all your notifications from everywhere in Slack or whatever app you want.

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to share an update on Foragd, a web-based feed reader I’ve been building. My goal with Foragd is to provide a clean experience for gathering and reading content, not a cluttered inbox.

First off, thanks for the folks who did some more testing for me! As a solo developer, all feedback and testing is super valuable. I'm working through the feedback you've given to make Foragd even better!

What’s new since July:

• Global Article Filters: In addition to per-subscription article filtering, you can now define filters that will apply across all subscriptions.
• Previous/Next Article Buttons: When viewing an article, there are now buttons that allow you to go the next or previous article quickly, without needing to navigate back to the lists.
• Remembering Scroll Position: I’m implementing better logic to remember your scroll position when navigating back to the lists pages.

UX & UI Improvements:

• Typography: Improved fonts. Foragd uses Alegreya as the default article font. Inter is used for labels and controls. I’m looking into adding the ability to choose from a bunch of font sets as well as adjusting the size for individual customisation of the article font.
• Themes: I’ve reworked all available themes, making sure contrast and other issues are resolved. Dark themes in particular should have more overall contrast.
• Better Email Newsletters: I’ve reworked email newsletter layouts to remove some of the more janky quirks of converting email html to regular html.

Backend Improvements:

• Behind the scenes, when the backend fetches feeds, it now tries to enrich feeds/items that lack details, like only summaries or no images.
• Search performance and relevance improvements.

Sale Pricing

I’m running sale pricing at the moment:

• Annual USD $36 (was $59), paid annually.
• Monthly USD $5 (was $7.50), paid monthly.

The trial period is now 30 days as well, with no need to enter payment details until the trial period is finished.

Links:

• Web: https://foragd.app
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.foragd.twa
• Changelog: https://foragd.app/changelog
• Watch the getting started video: https://player.mux.com/2T92kvRpwPS9EiyzPfZz4p1iIpuj02NY7DtRPAimzKIM

Foragd is handcrafted for the love of the independent and underground web. If you have any questions, feedback, or feature requests, please drop them below or DM me!

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TL;DR: I built a self-hostable social RSS reader that federates with Mastodon. Live demo + code linked below

Today the POC of my favorite feed reader is finally ready, it has all the features I had in mind for it.

It started from a small idea. In my world, very few people around me use RSS, and I always wanted to know what they follow and what they find interesting, maybe I'd want to follow them too. For example, I knew two of my coworkers were daily RSS users like me, but there was no way for us to see each other's reading.

So I let myself dream a bit and, with the help of AI, put together a version of that dream. You can see the live instance here: https://rssfriends.com/

The code of this POC lives here: https://github.com/pesarkhobeee/FediverseRssFriends

In short: it's a social, RSS-friendly radar for the open web, self-hosted, with magic-link auth, and connected to the fediverse (ActivityPub).

In detail you can:

• Add RSS or Atom feeds and put them in your own categories
• Share your list of feeds on a public page, or keep your account fully private
• Follow other people and see what they read or bookmark
• Save (bookmark) items you like
• Group your feeds into categories, and subscribe to each category as its own RSS feed
• Follow people on Mastodon and other rssFriends servers, and let them follow you from where they already are. This part uses ActivityPub (the same protocol Mastodon uses)
• It also supports the wonderful Wallabag: you can bookmark anything and it's automatically saved to your Wallabag. This is probably my favourite feature, because it fits my personal workflow: I bookmark what I like on rssfriends.com, it goes to my Wallabag, and from there it shows up on my e-reader (KOReader), which also supports Wallabag.

If you want, you can visit my public page and see if it's something you'd enjoy using too:

https://rssfriends.com/u/farid?cat=weblogs

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We've all seen r/rss being flooded with ads, self-promotion, and completely off-topic posts. It is unclear when there was last any meaningful moderator activity. Posts about the lack of moderation:

• 2026-07-22 What's up with the casino ads?
• 2026-06-01 Can we just have a thread for people to promote their reader and and ban all other promotional threads?
• 2021-09-01 TIL the only moderator of this r/rss , sodypop, is a Reddit admin “Doesn't seem to have interacted here in a while though :/”

Some of us have tried to help remedy this situation by reporting spam where we see it, by messaging the moderators to offer help, and by asking for the subreddit to be handed over via the r/redditrequest process. Unfortunately, nothing has helped, and r/rss continues to be unmoderated.

• 2026-07-14 request by u/altjj, DENIED
• 2026-07-28 request by u/latkde, IGNORED
• 2026-08-16 request by u/latkde, DENIED

I hope that someone else's attempt is met with more success.

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Hi fellow RSS Reader authors (doesn't everybody write one these days?),

I came across this article about CSS-related vulnerabilities in email readers:

https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox

Frankly, I found this quite shocking. As RSS readers render third-party HTML, these issues potentially affect RSS readers as well.

I am wondering which strategies you use for sanitizing and rendering third-party HTML? In particular, for HTML-based readers.

In my reader, I am currently using whitelist-based sanitation of the HTML on the server side (using sanitize-html npm). On the client, I am using safeSetHTML where supported as a second-layer defense, but slightly less strict to avoid issues with third-party embeddings (TikTok, X..). Without safeSetHTML, I am using DOMPurify.

Unfortunately, my UI does not allow me to use iframes for HTML, which would allow additional sandboxing. CSP is still on my TODO list.

How do you deal with untrusted HTML?

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Hi everyone,

I am a big fan of e-ink style of kindle, so I built a news reader that "feels" like one.

The app called "think", available on both Android and iOS.

- No account required
- Respect your privacy, no tracking, even analytics!

- Just enjoy reading!

https://think.icedtealabs.com/

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Do you still use RSS and feed reader apps in 2026 ?

If you do , can you actually reach the full range of sources out there? Filter them by keyword, or just describe what you're after in plain language and get the 20 sources that matter for your monitoring in ten seconds?

My context: I've had this idea that any curious person or content creator should be able to reach the best 400,000 RSS feeds in the world without effort , straight from their AI tool or their automation stack.

If that existed tomorrow, what would you plug it into? And what are you using instead right now?

Polaris

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