What’s your RSS solutions?

I’m using Feedly Classic on iOS. I would like to move off of it, but I have yet to find any other RSS client which presents the articles in a card like view which you can vertically swipe through to mark them as read.

Feedly themselves abandoned this UI for an infinite scrolling list on their main app. All other RSS clients I tried have this similar UI, which I feel is really poor.

Freshrss and ReadYou

https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou

I use Reeder classic for iOS. Plain and simple and easy to add feeds to. It works with my old reader account so that was a win for me.

I want to set up hoarder once all my components arrive for the home server. Soon I hope!

Might not be the answer you are looking for but I use Friendica - So I can pull in content from RSS/Atom as well as ActivityPub feeds. I sort of separage into Channels and Groups news related stuff seperate from actual people. I then use a number of different ActivtiyPub apps like Fedilab, Racoon to access my Friendica account

Miniflux is great. I use Wallabag as my read it later app and selfhost both on a cheap VPS. They're tightly integrated but Miniflux supports several other integrations

FreshRSS has been amazing, as you said, other readers have other goals in mind and seems RSS is just an add-on.

On Android's also there are no good clients, I've been using the PWA which is good enough.
There are several extensions for mobile menu improvements, I have Smart Mobile Menu, Mobile Scroll Menu and Touch Control (it works great on Firefox, but not on brave, it's too sensitive there, so YMMV).

There's also ReadingTime, but there are feeds which don't send the whole body of the post, so you might only see a 1minute read because of that.

The extension AutoTTL processes the feeds and makes them update only when it's more likely for them to get new items instead of every X minutes configured by FreshRSS.
Still there's a problem when the MaxTTL happens, all feeds are allowed to be updated and you might hit some rate limits, so I developed a rate limiter. Still there's a problem with AutoTTL because how extensions are loaded and with the http code reported by FreshRSS.

I found this project which receive the emails of newsletters and turns them into a RSS feed, I've only used it for one feed and I've only received one entry, not sure if the newsletter is that bad or if the site struggles to receive/show them. Haven't tried something it.
https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter

There's also this repo linking a lot of sites with feeds, and some sites which don't offer feeds directly are provided via feedburner (which seems it's a Google service and wikipedia says "primarily for monetizing RSS feeds, primarily by inserting targeted advertisements into them", so use those at your own discretion) https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds

I just use Nextcloud News since I am already using Nextcloud. It works well and installs in just a few clicks.

For feeds I can only recommend to get rid of HN, its gives you a skewed perspective and is a huge waste of time. The only thing its good for is begging for support when Google deactivates your account.

I use https://tt-rss.org/ The devs are kinda jerks, but the app works decently if you can self-host. Theres also a couple of phone-apps that work fairly well.

FreshRSS backend and Lire (iOS)

Love it! Well worth the app purchase I couldn’t be happier with my setup.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lire-rss-reader/id1531976425

I use Feedly, it has a nice iOS client too. It has some nice integrations for saving articles for later reading

https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

I’ve been using FreshRSS and Reeder (now Reeder Classic) since google reader stopped being a thing. It's pretty great.

Been happy with FreshRSS for years now (TTRSS before that). One thing that really improves it is RSS-Bridge which turns a lot of non RSS sites into feeds (and a lot of truncated feeds into full ones). It's also a list of what hackerly types will put effort into getting a feed from, so self-curating in its way. Enjoy...

I selfhost Tiny Tiny RSS

I use Feedbro, a firefox addon

I use NetNewsWire. Since I am happily entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, it works great with its iCloud syncing. This way I can use it on my phone and laptop while not having to set up any server-side infrastructure or rely on a third party to host anything. (Granted I am relying on the iCloud storage for device syncing. But it did not involve any kind of setup and the files are encrypted such that Apple cannot read them.)

I landed on lire for iOS after trying out a few apps, for my FreshRSS instance. It works and has spotlight indexing, which is nice.

I’ve also been using News Explorer which relies on iCloud for sync. I like to have the separate app just to change up the feed notifications and News Explorer has a grid view that works for me on an iPad. I mostly use this for news sites, and I found the grid view to be the most pleasing for those kinds of articles.

FressRSS gave me a UI I was looking for on both mobile and desktop, and it "just works".

My only complaint, and I'm sure this isn't a feature found anywhere, is that I wish you could actually delete an article, not just "archive it". Some of the stuff that gets through on RSS is unfiltered NSFW crap, and I really would rather not have that on my home server!

The best use of RSS I ever found was to put a feed of Metafilter/Slashdot/Hackernews/Lemmy into my magicmirror so when I blearily woke up in the morning, I could watch a stream of article titles flow by while I brushed my teeth.

https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/newsfeed.html

Mentioning Five Filters because no one has mentioned it yet. It will pull the full text of the articles and present them to you in your RSS reader (or FreshRSS) so you don't have to navigate to a browser to read the article. Everything takes place in your native RSS app. I use it as a docker container. Actually, I create a stack with FreshRSS and Five Filters in the stack.

Five Filters has a paid service, but they also have a free docker app for people who want to self-host. https://github.com/heussd/fivefilters-full-text-rss-docker

I'm still searching for a good iOS reader app for FreshRSS.

As an RSS user since the early days, there's something I never get: why is this something that people are hosting? Are you really all consuming so much news, so much of the time, that you need to do it simultaneously on two devices? That sounds like news overload to me but what do I know.

Personally, I catch up once a day for an hour (or two). Seem more than enough and means I only ever need an RSS client. Right now: the Feedbro add-on in Firefox desktop.

As for tips and tools, RSSBox is a useful one. IMO if RSS were more popular this is the sort of thing that would be built into the client.

I use the FeedBro add-on for Firefox. It's highly configurable and works like a dream. I've not found anything better, honestly.

I use nextcloud for a lot of stuff, so added the news app. In that I have a lot of GitHub repos I want to know get updated and things like the register and BBC news UK.

Edit: that also have a mobile app for just the RSS feeds

I use Inoreader. Not selfhosted but that is everything i have at that company. The articles are public anyway so I don't care that much.

My workflow is article maximize and try to hide everything else like menubar and list of sources etc. I use jk to navigate for scrolling and v/space to go to article. I use vimium extension so d for close tab with article. Article is automatically marked as read as I scroll. It takes 5 min per day to go through. I think if I would selfhost then I would try tiny rss.

I don't use it on phone. No need. I am at my computer most of the time.

Yunohost + freshrss is an amazing combo.

Akregator, it works.

Feeds, dunno news sites (ars technica, phoronix). A lot of random blogs and articles, some forums (acoup.blog, aeon.co). Some youtube channels (most in my language, isaac arthur, AvE).

Try the iOS app Unread: An RSS Reader. I use a self-hosted FreshRSS instance with API access enabled as the Unread app uses the Fever API (see link below). The Unread app typography is absolutely beautiful. I use the app without a subscription as it’s expensive but given how great it is, I’m considering subscribing to support continued development.

https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/06_Fever_API.html

i like commafeed the best. webapp on android just works

I'm using inoreader, the free tier is enough for my usage

Use feeeed for iOS. Looks and feels more modern than a lot of the other RSS apps but without any stupid bs. Free with no ads. Has a built-in reader mode that strips out article ads. Developed by one very awesome dude.

It can handle more than just RSS content too- you can follow Bluesky/Mastodon accounts, YouTube channel uploads, subreddits, and more with it.

I highly recommend changing the default view from “cards” to “list” so you can see more content.

Nextcloud News with the accompanying app on my phone. I was lazy that day