#Desktop feed reader install#
#Desktop feed reader code#

RSS client that works with web readers and local RSS feed files Open Source with a web frontend and an API for external clients Self-contained, open source, OS native feed reader.Īpp & web-based feed reader site (Substack & RSS) WordPress plugin allowing an integrated feed reader on one's site Open Source Owncloud application with a web frontend and an API

social reader for interactive readers that let you can respond to posts, e.g.

reader for current work on integrated indieweb readers.

To further the goal of empowering individuals to post (and read) on the indieweb, it makes sense to develop indieweb-design-centric feed readers which address the limitations with legacy feed readers.

#Desktop feed reader code#

If you don't want that because you want to keep the RAM usage down like I do, quit the app when you're done with it with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Q instead of closing its window, then both the app and the background daemon quit.įeedReader is Open Source, licensed under GP元, the code is available on Github.Feed readers are useful for keeping up with people's posts wherever they post, especially their own site.

One caveat of FeedReader is that when you just close its window, it keeps syncing your feeds in the background. I love using that feature to quickly read through articles when I lie back a short distance away from the computer. It also features a very neat fullscreen view that works like a presentation mode, where articles take up the whole screen and then you can go through all articles by clicking on the left or the right arrows on the side or by using the keyboard. Of course there is also a local/offline alternative here, you can just star articles you want to read later.įeedReader's design is a convenient three pane layout, with feeds and categories on the left, a list of articles in the center, and the selected article displayed on the right. While FeedReader does support local RSS feeds, which is the way I'm using it, it can also integrate with a long list of online RSS services like feedly and FreshRSS.įull list of supported online RSS services:Īnd it also supports the 'Read later' tools Instapaper, Pocket and Wallabag.

#Desktop feed reader install#

Nowadays however you can install FeedReader on any Linux distribution, it's distributed as a flatpak on flathub, so as long as you have flatpak installed you can install FeedReader by opening a terminal and executing: flatpak install flathub It uses Vala as its official programming language, a Gnome language that compiles to C and adds Object Oriented concepts on top of it via GObject. It was originally an elementary OS app (to the best of my knowledge, after perusing Google search results for a while) which is the Linux distribution I'm using right now. It's written in Vala using GTK3, which means it's as native as you can get on Linux, so it's lightweight and fast and the design is superb (if you like the GTK3 style, I do). If an app uses too many resources, I can only use that one app at a time, so I tend to stay away from those Electron based resource hogs if I can :)Īt first I didn't find anything simple and modern looking and was about to just start writing my own, but then I found FeedReader. I wanted something well designed and simple that is fast and uses as few resources as possible, since I'm on an old Chromebook with only 2 GB of RAM and a 1.4 Ghz processor. So I thought, why not try using RSS again.įirst I needed to find a good app though, and for Linux no less because that's my main operating system right now. I only use decentralized social networks, I don't use Twitter or Facebook or any of the mainstream stuff, but I still want to read news. Recently, I started to care again about RSS as well. Lately, especially as people get fed up with social media and want an alternative way to curate their own news feed, without selling your digital soul to big tech companies, RSS is slowly starting to get popular again with technically minded people. You used to see little RSS icons on every blog, RSS support was built into web browsers, but now it's getting harder to find RSS feeds and browsers started removing support for them.

When Google Reader died, in some sense RSS died with it.