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Tiny Tiny RSS?
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33 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
Writing something to scratch your own itch and posting it for others to use if it suits them doesn't entitle anyone to your resources, and that's how an awful lot of my favorite software came to be. If you're setting out to develop software for other people, it's a dick move to not listen to users (See: gnome foundation, most commercial software), but still, if you have an idea and put the work in to make it happen, I have a hard time claiming you're entirely in the wrong for trying it (even when it breaks my use case and I hate you, or you're engaged in building software that trains learned helplessness and doing what I perceive as social harm).
I despise the current trend where "not nice to me" is conflated with "wrong."
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I adore Tiny Tiny RSS, it does pretty much exactly what I want, and I have it because someone else with the same itch was nice enough to share their solution. Fox (the author) is a giant asshole to anyone who shows up acting entitled or failing to do due diligence, especially post-google-reader, and it's almost a bonus feature: no bloat, no feature churn, no mailing list drama, no forum cesspool like the Android world, just Fox's software, enhanced with patches or ideas that help or don't interfere with his use case. It'll suck if it ceases to suit me, and along with any similarly affected users I'll have have to decide what to do (Fork from old version? Maintain patches to new version? Suck it up? Use something else?) but even with that, it's vastly more "mine" than most commercial or any "cloud" software. I've even kicked him a couple bucks for the Android app and still feel that way, because the comparison is getting equivalent functionality some other way.
I've been using Tiny Tiny RSS for half a year now and it's great. Add feedly.css as a theme and you get very modern-looking, responsive in-browser RSS feed that can also talk with regular desktop clients like Liferea or Thunderbird. There is also Android client. It rocks, hands down.
Reddit is great for the community and content, however, if you're just looking for content then a RSS reader will do. For example, I run Tiny Tiny RSS that runs on one of my servers so it can be accessed any where. (instead of local). Also use the Android app for it.
When Google Reader was being shutdown TTS was suggested as a personal replacement by some, though I didn't really use google reader so can't compare. You can also hook TTS up to other TTSes apparently so they all share content, but I haven't looked at that. Only problem is that you have to find the sites that have the content you want and they have to have RSS (but what site doesn't?). And then the wading through of articles that you don't care about to find that one, but just scroll through the list like you do with your email from the bosses, and you'll be fine. ;)
Mostly for TT-RSS which is an RSS aggregator. I use it so I can have one place for all of my news. I have about 150-200 feeds in there. (Neat thing that you might not be aware of is that reddit generates rss/atom feeds for every subreddit, this one is here -- just add .rss to the end of the url)
It's a pretty cool little program honestly, but it can be rough on the database. MySQL is using pretty much all of the RAM on my server right now (it only has 16GB due to the 3rd memory channel being down) but with some massaging MySQL can be pretty fast.
I like Tiny Tiny RSS a lot with plugins like feediron you get directly full content into your feed e.g. comic strips. I tested freshrss and miniflux but didnt like them.
Depois da queda do Google Reader, tenho usado até hoje uma instalação local do Tiny Tiny RSS, num servidorzinho que fica ligado 24/7.
Foi a experiência mais próxima que encontrei em relação ao Reader.
EDIT: outras thread que já havia sido criada: https://www.reddit.com/r/brasil/comments/88vk3t/its_time_for_an_rss_revival/
You're not alone. Google Reader was my best friend. Instead of opening it up to the community they shut it down, Very Sad Day. Then they started messing with the XMPP server and thats when I "snapped"; Ive never seen Google the same since.
Ive tried my best to either decentralize my services or host them myself.
I've been running an instance of Tiny Tiny Rss to replace my reader. I would highly recommend it to you.
Edit: Trusting any 3rd party central server is probably a mistake, as you have no sovereignty. Tricking users to surrender data sovereignty is being pushed hard, specifically through service-level agreements. I know Microsoft has been getting a lot of praise lately, but re-defining malware and taking from the open source communities should not be an honorable moral.
Depends on how you like to read them. You can set up Tiny Tiny RSS as a web-based RSS reader (even if you only serve locally). You can use newsboat if you like to read them from the CLI (which also has tt-rss integrations).
I personally run rss2email from a cron job so that my RSS feeds get sent to my email. I don't need to learn a new UI (and I have all the filtering power of my MUA to auto-delete ones I know I don't want), I can forward them to share, I can control polling frequency, it stays in sync across machines thanks to IMAP, works offline thanks to offlineimap/mbsync, can be easily searched with notmuch, etc.
J'ai une instance de Tiny Tiny RSS https://tt-rss.org/ que je regarde sur un navigateur ou depuis mes téléphones (Android, iOS). Ca me convient. Pas de maintenance à faire ce qui est un point important pour moi.
It's not really in the same category, but I like Tiny Tiny RSS. It actually runs on a server, but there's an Android client for it. For me, the benefits of having a central location for my feeds keep me happily using tt-rss in place of basically anything else.
Tiny Tiny RSS since google took Reader away.
I have an instance on a DigitalOcean VM that I run some other web services on, and I consume pretty much all my internet through it. Easy to set up and maintain, keeps track of what I've looked at across machines/platforms, nice web interface, nice Android app, etc .
unless you need extended metadata support, i don't think there's any point in using calibre server in this scenario.
shameless plug what you should be using is this https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/the-epube
If you're technically inclined, or know someone who is, there's always Tiny Tiny RSS -- an open source RSS aggregator web app. I spun up a digital ocean droplet and run my own instance. It's great, since now I'm the only one that gets to know exactly what my tastes in news/culture sources are (runs fine on the smallest linux droplet, for $5 a month).
I used Liferea for a while after Google Reader tanked, but for some reason, it would occasionally disorganize the database (wrong entries for wrong subscriptions). This may be fixed now, I don't know. What I've been using instead is TinyTinyRSS. For someone who lived on Google Reader, this works pretty well. https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home
Not that I am aware. If you need sync, something like Feedly is the way to go.
You should keep something in mind, though: services like this cost money to run. If most users don't pay, eventually ads, data mining, sponsored content, etc, will be used to find revenue. You can find a better alternative, but if most of their users use a free plan, then it's only a matter of time until they do something similar.
If it's not practical to use only one device to read the content (would remove the need for sync), other than a service, the only solution I could think of is to host your own RSS reader server... not an option for most people, but Tiny Tiny RSS ( https://tt-rss.org/ ) should work fine on a cheap raspberry pi.
> I love F-Droid
Both apps are on the Play Store too, btw.
It wasn't easy to find (because using open standards doesn't help Google or Apple get their claws deeper into you), but there is an RSS feed. I just added it to my TT-RSS list and it works great. Support open standards and use the client of your choice!
Soapbox aside, I'm sorry I haven't looked at this before. Bob Odenkirk? I gotta listen to that. Nice guest list.
Liferea (GTK) and Akregator (KDE/Qt) are both desktop RSS readers that support importing an OPML file.
I use Newsblur on Android, so I'm not familiar with alternatives. Easy recommendation is any recently updated application on F-Droid.
Those won't support synchronizing with a service, but if you did want to go that route, there are a number of selfhosted solutions. Big name (in this tiny community) is probably TT-RSS. There are a number of others that you should check out. Some of which even have an API that PC and mobile developers have used to support synchronization.
Okay - I don't have my RPi available atm, but I do have an Orange Pi Zero running Armbian that I just installed nginx and ttrss on.
Process:
sudo apt install nginx
less /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default - to check out the configuration.
sudo git clone https://tt-rss.org/git/tt-rss.git /var/www/html/ttrss
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/ttrss
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/ttrss
echo '<h1> TEST </h1>' > /var/www/html/ttrss/index.html - create a test file, go to <address>/ttrss/ and see if nginx works. It did.
sudo apt install php
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default - and edit to enable index.php and php fpm.sock
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Browse to <address>/ttrss/install/ and there's the "Tiny Tiny RSS Installer" page.
- edit to add that I stopped here, since I didn't install postgresql, etc, since I just wanted to show how to get to the ttrss install stage.
If you're up for some setup, I've found that Tiny Tiny RSS running on a computer at my house works very well. I'm extremely happy with it. They have a Docker container which greatly simplifies installation. I use the app on F-Droid.
After Google Reader died, I spent some time trying out the various free readers out there. None of them is as good as Reader was, IMO.
Tiny Tiny RSS is arguably better than Reader though, and I've been using it for a few years now so I can recommend it - but it's not for the faint of heart. You need your own server, set up databases, and so on. But it's free and open source and absolutely rocks.
It's probably a bit overkill for this specific use case, but you could consider running a Tiny Tiny RSS instance and set it to email digests.
Or, better IMHO, configure it to follow other blogs as well and use it for your daily news source, as I do. There are iOS and Android apps as well as a Web interface.
TinyTinyRSS on docker works fine for me.
I'm hosting this on a cheap VPS using docker and the linuxserver/tt-rss image.
TinyTinyRSS is not very mobile friendly by itself, but it provides an API.
Using g2ttrss-mobile in a sub directory will allow you to access it from a mobile phone with ease.
RSS is mostly just useful, as other folks have mentioned, for aggregating a bunch of disparate news/blogs/whatever sites into one interface, so you're not checking a million different sites per day (and also have about zero chance of missing anything, since you're explicitly dismissing articles as you go. There's other advantages in terms of caching and retention, if you're so inclined, though that's a pretty minor use case nowadays.
In addition to a bunch of blogs (an of course the subreddits already mentioned), I use RSS to keep up with various webcomic artists, and various youtube channels I subscribe to. I run various servers that are available 24/7, so I use TT-RSS on one of them, on a domain I own, so I can access my feeds from anywhere so long as I've got internet access. TT-RSS also has an Android app which provides a more "native" (ie: non-web-based) RSS interface, which talks to my server, so I use that when on my phone.
This is my view at the moment, on one of my browser tabs, for instance:
https://i.imgur.com/fbuZtGW.png
Obvs. those lines can be expanded to show the whole article, or clicked-through to get to the source.
Anyway, just your usual RSS stuff. Those of us dinosaurs from back in the early days of the web continue to be quite fond of 'em 'cause it puts a lot of the control of news aggregation and the like in our own hands, rather than relying on third-party services, etc.
Tiny Tiny RSS sounds like the mutliredit thing you are describing.
You have to set it up on your system (may need to configure network on your router) or a shared server (VPS) and can access it via web or an app and share the link to your RSS feeds, if I understood you correctly :)
> After it was pulled, I couldn’t find a replacement and I have since practically stopped reading blogs thanks to that. :(
I installed Tiny Tiny RSS on a Linode VPS and it's almost as good.
I installed Tiny Tiny RSS few years ago, never looked back.It is a GUI in your browser. No clients needed, sort, publish, star, email ...etc.Supports plug-ins, themes, has API, and even a stable and very useful mobile client.I would recommend that over any local software installation.
I got it working again, so I'l try to do my best to remember the steps I took. I'm no expert so it's possible some of these steps were unnecessary.
1) Install (but don't run) TT-RSS through the Package Manager. On installation, it asks for your MySQL password -- leave that blank.
2) Run Web Station, and on the general settings page set the HTTP backend server to Apache 2.2. On the PHP settings page choose to "Customize PHP open_basedir" and add to the end of the string a colon followed by your path to TT-RSS (for me it's :/volume1/web/TT-RSS)
3) I updated TT-RSS by downloading the most recent version from https://tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss/tree/master, and then moving the files into the TT-RSS folder.
4) Edit the config file in the TT-RSS directory (any text editor will do) so the line that begins "define('PHP_EXECUTABLE')" now reads "define('PHP_EXECUTABLE', '/usr/local/bin/php56');"
5) Run TT-RSS by going to [Synology IP]/tt-rss, and login with default user "Admin" and default password "Password".
I think this is it, but if it doesn't work let me know and I'll try to remember what else I did.
For everyone who wants to host an RSS syndication system themselves:
Tiny Tiny RSS, even has its own Readability. https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home
Compatible with Fever°. So on iOS you can use Reeder and on Android there is an App from the developer himself and alternatives like Press.
I had just gotten the article in my RSS reader, and coincidentally your submission was the next item, so you got the benefit of timing and happenstance.
I installed ttrss on my shared hosting plan. About 500 sites followed. Nice!
- Closed; no open signups.
- its own sub-domain
- 4 users, all from my household
- single fetch per day at 1600 local time
This looks pretty interesting, but there's no real information about the software on the site: the documentation wiki is completely blank. How does this compare performance-wise to TT-RSS? What protocols and APIs does it support? Can I import my existing TT-RSS database? Can I import and export OPML files? Does it have embedded playback support for podcast feeds? Can I use it as a backend for Liferea? I'd like to have some understanding of what the program actually does and how it works before I go to the trouble of testing it out. Compare to the TT-RSS website which is both more informative and less visually overwrought.