selfoss

multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

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multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

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Observed mentions: 2013-03-19 20:20:17 UTC to 2020-10-02 07:56:06 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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dubbel·Oct 2, 2020

I'm self-hosting selfoss [1]. Runs on PHP and sqlite (or MySQL), and also has integrations with some websites that don't support RSS feeds, e.g. Twitter and Reddit. Also comes with an app on Android. [1] https://github.com/fossar/selfoss

In Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

FabianBeiner·Dec 30, 2019

Yes. I've read about this thread in selfoss (https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss), "a multipurpose RSS reader and feed aggregation web application."

In Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

swanson·May 19, 2014

Really like your point on OSS. Even if you don't make a whole "marketing site" - you can get a lot of mileage by considering your README as a sales page (and not just a technical document). Here's an actual example, compare the READMEs for these open source RSS readers: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/swanson/stringer/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/Athou/commafeed/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS/blob/master/README.... Which ones jump out at you? Which ones are memorable? Which do you want to install/contribute to/star? (I'm biased because I wrote one, but I was very intentional which how the README looks and reads!)

In Making Your Writing Work Harder For You

MatthewPhillips·Mar 19, 2013

I don't usually upvote Marco.org articles but this one was very good. Before Reader there was a vibrant (niche, but vibrant) market for RSS readers. Reader decimated that market and arguably killed innovation in RSS altogether. I remember when PubSubHubBub and RSS Cloud came out and wondered why anyone would bother implementing them for feeds when all that mattered was if Google Reader was fetching your stuff fast enough (it was). It's going to be interesting to see how things develop in the wake of the shutdown. There's already a mad rush to provide alternatives, and a bunch of open source readers are in heavy development (I'm using Selfoss personally: https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss). It might turn out that Reader shutting down is the best thing that could have happened.

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