KRKronisLV·Dec 13, 2021
Recently added RSS/Atom/JSON feeds to my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/
Honestly, i largely agree with the claim that RSS is dying.
For example, on Windows i wanted to find a decent RSS reader to use, since recently coming to like the technology myself for consumption of news (since all of the sudden everything can just be boring text, as opposed to annoying and attention catching images, styling etc., allowing em to focus on the content), which turned out to be hard.
In my search, i found the following readers:
- Feedly (https://feedly.com/) not really an option for me, since i want downloadable software, which is also why i use Thunderbird instead of web mail clients
- Newsblur (https://www.newsblur.com/) same as above
- Inoreader (https://www.inoreader.com/) same as above
- Feeder (https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/det
Read the rest
ail/feeder-rss-feed-reader/jlkhefogiiibhgblliimeleiiiijbkjj) not an option, Windows Store app, i avoid that
- Omea Reader (https://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/) by JetBrains, but requirements list Windows XP, so not updated in a long time
- RSSOwl (http://www.rssowl.org/) based on Eclipse and fails to launch with new JDK versions
- QuiteRSS (https://quiterss.org/en/screenshots) the layout absolutely breaks because image dimensions are not constrained, no one wants the header of the news story to fill up the entire screen
- RSSGuard (https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard) in the end i stuck with this, because just got tired because of so many bad options out there
Apparently Google Reader was also pretty good but was retired.
How is RSS supposed to survive if there is no good software for it out there? Give me something like LibreOffice that you just download, install and it works in surprisingly sane ways most of the time.