AVavtar·Oct 21, 2025
Miniflux is pretty good and easy to self-host:
https://github.com/miniflux/v2
https://miniflux.app/docs/docker.html
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Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
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Observed mentions: 2015-07-03 02:10:45 UTC to 2025-10-21 01:59:16 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
19 sources> If you pull the feed, don't pull the posts. If you pull the posts, don't pull the feed. If you pull both, you're missing the whole point of having an aggregated feed!
In some cases the reader should fetch both the feed and the pages. Unfortunately, none do
https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/3084
In A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers (2022)This would be interesting as a project using the Miniflux API (https://github.com/miniflux/v2). That way it would already use my existing feeds and I don't have a separate "reading tool".
In Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web ReaderI like Miniflux[0]. It being a hosted RSS reader means I can easily browse on my PC as well as on my phone.
[0] https://github.com/miniflux/v2
In Hacker News RSShttps://github.com/miniflux/v2 in case anyone else was also wondering
In Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feedsRecommend checking out https://github.com/miniflux/v2
n.b. I haven't tested importing 600+ feeds!
In Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal BlogsI've been self-hosting miniflux [0] for a couple years. Rock solid performance, deployment is easy, upgrades are small but meaningful, and doesn't use anything exotic in the tech stack (mainly Go, some vanilla JS, persists data in PostgreSQL).
I mainly browse on my laptop, but it's pretty decent on mobile.
[0]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2
In Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?I really like miniflux, but I really wish it had a weighted post ordering rather than a simple chronological ordering. I posted a feature request about this earlier this year[0], but the gist is this:
If you subscribe to some feeds that post 100+ times a day (like a major news outlet) and others that post only once every couple months or so (like many personal blogs), you'll never catch the latter because those posts are always drowned in a sea of the former. Reddit deals with this problem by weighting posts from each subreddit you subscribe to so that your frontpage contains content from as many of your subs as possible.
All I want for Christmas is for this idea to get some traction. Hoping to make the time to hack on this myself Q1 of next year.
[0]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/1493
In Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?https://github.com/miniflux/v2 does well for me
In Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?Miniflux – Minimalist and opinionated feed reader writen in Go
3 points · Open discussionV2 – Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
3 points · Open discussionRSS is still popular[ly-supported]. It's not too late.
I felt exactly the way you did for a long time.
Eventually, I decided to invest in setting up a more healthy and symmetric relationship with information, like you describe.
I realized RSS was the right tool for this goal. I'd definitely recommend trying this, even if you don't have the gall to self-host. It feels like I get three square meals a day, instead of injecting corn syrup every 15 minutes for 16 hours.
I chose to self-host my reader + data store, so that all of the data can live on my machine, and so I'm not dependent on some VC, advertising, or goodwill-backed project that will kick the can in a few years. There are plenty of good options. I decided to try out miniflux [1] as a first pass because I liked it's dependency graph, and haven't felt the need to try anything else.
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Most blogging platforms (blogger, squarespace, wordpress, substack) produce RSS feeds by default. News aggregators like HN and Reddit have robust APIs for generating RSS feeds.
There are products like you describe, that convert a web page into an RSS feed with various hacks. IMO, this creates too big of a dependency on a flaky third-party. It might (literally!) be easier to build+maintain it yourself for the few sites that don't have an RSS feed, with `curl` `echo` and `sed`.
[1]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2
Self-hosted Miniflux (https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux) + Reeder on iOS / macOS.
Miniflux like so many supports the Fever API which means I can use almost any RSS app on the platform I need it on. I also wrote a small sidekick for Miniflux that I can use to filter posts I don't like (Sponsored posts etc.): https://github.com/dewey/miniflux-sidekick
In Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?Always great to see more RSS readers. Are you thinking about making it API compatible with others so people can use any of the existing apps?
I'm currently using https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux (Also written in Go) and it supports the Fever API which means I can use any app on most platforms to sync with.
In Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS ReaderI’ve been using Miniflux for the past couple of months and I’ve been very happy with it so far https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux
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