ASAstroBen·Jul 11, 2025
I'm really happy with Fluent Reader - it's available on all of Windows/Mac/Linux
https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader
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fluent-reader
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yang991178 / fluent-reader
fluent-reader
Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI
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Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesFluent Reader is a nice FOSS reader
https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader
In What's your favorite RSS feed reader?Been using Fluent for a while now.
I like that it lets you specify to open pages as RSS or full webpage, some sites don't feed their RSS well so full webpage fixes it.
https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader
In RSS and why I believe most people should come back using themThis is Fluent Reader.
Note the page only advertises downloads for Windows and Mac; however, on the releases page[1], an *.AppImage for Linux can be downloaded.
Testing it right, it does look nice. Maybe finally time to retire FeedBro which just has too many bugs to be called good software.
[1](https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader/releases)
In A modern cross-platform desktop RSS readerUse an RSS reader. You will like the lack of feeling of being forced to comment on things you don't care much about in retrospection. No tracking or ads, only content. You can filter shady sites or posts from appearing.
Here are some readers.
0] https://github.com/GetStream/Winds
1] https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
2] https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin
3] https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader
If you like something closed source, try feedly.
Reddit provides rss for now. For sources that don't, you can use rss.app or similar.
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss
One more useful thing some readers provide is an email address that you can use for subscribing to newsletters.
In Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?