Sat, 30 Mar 2024
Feed readers I'm trying right now

Shinobi blogs are *meant* to be read in an RSS feed reader. They can stand alone and be read in a traditional web browser, but a feed reader smooths out the rougher edges and makes it easier to follow dozens or hundreds of feeds.

I'm probably one of the few readers of content via RSS who never used Google Reader. It sure felt like RSS "died" a bit when Google pulled the plug on that app.

At that time I was probably using Liferea https://lzone.de/liferea on Linux and QuiteRSS https://quiterss.org on Windows.

I went a long time without using a feed reader. I did have trouble with the RSS feeds for one of my Hugo blogs that I built off of existing RSS feeds. That site was automated, and the entries were so long, the RSS feeds the site itself generated were so large, the server would run out of memory while building them. I learned about the *rsslimit* parameter in Hugo and fixed that.

But until I discovered Shinobi https://shinobi.btxx.org/feed.xml, which is a blog meant to be consumed via its feed, I hadn't had my own RSS feed-reading setup in years.

So I went about giving feed readers a try.

In Linux, I have installed Liferea and Thunderbird https://www.thunderbird.net, the mail client that continues to offer RSS feed-reading capability.

Both are nice apps, but I'm leaning toward Thunderbird right now.

I'm also trying feed readers in Android.

So far I've tried Twine https://github.com/msasikanth/twine and Feeder https://news.nononsenseapps.com. Right now I like Feeder better. It's native view of a feed entry is a *better* fit for Shinobi. But both are pretty good, and the settings can compensate for quirks in one feed or another.