What a shame! It was good! What do people recommend as the spiritual successor?
I switched to CommaFeed, which I’ve been happy with
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@dandart @nairou Really useful discussion (to find an alternative)! A reply here notifies all people that are watching out for breaking changes, so would be cool if you could move it to a new topic and leave a link in your already existing replies. Thanks! 
Edit: Posted this in the “Breaking changes” topic, and was subsequently moved here (ty mod <3), which is why this post sounds weird
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I’m personally very happy with Miniflux!
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I can recommend FreshRSS as well.
It works very well, I don’t even use a mobile app anymore because their web interface is good enough for me.
In addition it is a much friendlier community than TT-RSS every was.
I’ve been using miniflux for years as well, it’s great.
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yarr is:
- minimal
- feature complete
- backed by sqlite
- available via
services.yarr
I prefer the console to wade through feeds, and click the links of interesting articles to open/read them in Firefox.
Newsboat, is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
Nextclous News app also has this functionality
I was a Nextcloud News reader for a while, wanted a solution that sync’d browser and mobile read states.
Now on miniflux, can supply google reader api interface for capyreader (mobile) – the mobile site is also very good, if you’ve gotten tired of the web 2.0 of it all.
**edit : Another awesome thing is integration with wallabag, which hasn’t been packaged as a service to my knowledge, but works well enough in docker. So, saving in miniflux sends to wallabag for permanent storage.
I’m a happy user of GitHub - tryallthethings/freshvibes: Netvibes / iGoogle like view for FreshRSS, a FreshRSS extension that presents a different widget like view of feeds, as compared to the linear interleaved view in most readers.
I like my feeds organized separately, so that I don’t have to context switch topics when reading them. Something like:
I recommend checking this out. You might need some time getting used to this view. I, for one, can’t go back to linear feeds anymore.
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Complementary to Miniflux (and its web interface), I can recommend NewsFlash as a Linux client, Read You as an Android client and NetNewsWire for macOS and iOS.
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FreshRSS treated me well for 5+ years and I still recommend it, but I’m in the process of gradually migrating to Miniflux.
FreshRSS is big and robust and probably supports anything you need, but I don’t need most of it and there have been some points of friction like the strangely low limit on feeds-per-category that makes adding subscriptions a bit awkward sometimes.
Miniflux is lightweight and less featureful without the crazy plugin selection, though it does have a massive set of app and service integrations built in. It’s cleaner to operate, doesn’t care about the web server in front of it, no need for the NixOS module to handle your nginx config, etc.
I personally run these as pure aggregators to be accessed from dedicated client apps, so I don’t use the web interface for reading at all, only for admin and subscription management. A minimal UI that’s quick to get in and out of when adding stuff is a plus for me. This is subjective, but tossing a new feed on the pile is a much smoother process for me with Miniflux.
The one issue I’ve noticed with Miniflux so far is that the filtering options are way more limited compared to FreshRSS, so there are some date/time query tricks I can’t reproduce. Not the end of the world, and maybe I’ll send a PR their way sometime. Other than that, it’s been smooth sailing.
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Could you share some more information about this?
The Read You readme specifically mentions Miniflux as not supported. I did some poking around and saw mentions of a “fever api”, is that what you’re using?
Do the readers support offline reading/marking as read?
I’m using the Google Reader integration, which works fine when you set the server URL to your normal miniflux endpoint, because miniflux itself has an optional Google Reader compatible API:
https://miniflux.app/docs/google_reader.html
And yes, Read You works offline. Synchronized entries are automatically downloaded (at least the text is, images apparently not). You can also configure how long to keep them in storage after you’ve marked them as read.
Not sure about NetNewsWire and NewsFlash
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looks promising, but unsure how it will continue in the future, for those not wanting to migrate.
Yes NNW works offline and syncs with Miniflux.
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