RSS feed readers

[standingwave]

What's best? A web portal or a dedicated app? Now, I've been using MyYahoo since the 1990s (don't laugh) but the last few days it's been bothering me with tons of "Oops! There was a problem loading this content. Please check back later" messages. It's always been a problem and I can live with one or two broken feeds but when it gets to be the majority of feeds, then I have a problem. Googling around for an answer leads me to believe that this is a long standing issue and Yahoo's response seems to be, "What do you expect for free?!"

So, I'm hunting around for alternatives. Recommendations?

[leviathan8]

Liferea .

[FuturePilot]

Liferea

[Elfy]

I use that as well.

[Spice Weasel]

Snownews is a lot faster than Liferea but doesn't support images.

[standingwave]

Snownews is a lot faster than Liferea but doesn't support images.Might check that out as I don't need images and in fact always disable them on MyYahoo feeds. All I need is the headline. Cursor hover for the description would be nice.

[Paqman]

Google Reader is fantastic, and if you have an Android phone it ties in with their Listen podcasting app really well. If you use more than one computer (eg work/home) then a web-based reader is the way to go.

[Elfy]

Snownews is a lot faster than Liferea but doesn't support images.


Might check that out as I don't need images and in fact always disable them on MyYahoo feeds. All I need is the headline. Cursor hover for the description would be nice.

Me too - thanks Spice Weasel

[samalex]

Wow, I've never heard of Liferea but looks great. I personally use Google Reader which is great.

As for My Yahoo, I used that for YEARS until I moved to Google's home page to http://www.google.com/ig which I love. I have about 10 RSS feeds there, but given Google Reader can also parse podcasts I like it much better.

[koleoptero]

Google reader works well too. If you use more than one computer then it's the best solution imho. If you only use one then liferea or whatever is better because you can also access downloaded content offline.

[Version Dependency]

The past couple of weeks I've been using a terminal-based RSS reader called Canto. Very light and fast, and pretty customizable. Of course, you won't get any images...just the text.

[Elfy]

Me too - thanks Spice Weasel

Though I didn't actually like it much - but at least I got to see it and have a look :)

[samalex]

The past couple of weeks I've been using a terminal-based RSS reader called Canto. Very light and fast, and pretty customizable. Of course, you won't get any images...just the text.

Nice, thanks! I'm downloading it now. I'm always looking for awesome command line apps.

Update: Well crud my server (Ubuntu 8.04 Server) has Python 2.5 but it looks like Canto needs 2.6 or higher. I'm too lazy to upgrade it just for this so I'll wait until I can either upgrade my server or install another one. Oh well.

Sam

[kef_kf]

I've used liferea for a while but for some reason it was very slow for me (opening feeds with large numbers of messages archived) so I switched to akregator and I am very happy with it.
Its only shortcoming for me is the fact that it does not display flash or similar stuff in its browser window.

[wolfen69]

Opera has an RSS reader built in that works good.

[areteichi]

I was also looking for a RSS Reader and discovered a Firefox extension called NewsFox. I actually find this extremely useful! :D Especially with Firefox 4.0, I can pin NewsFox as an App Tab and browse my RSS using a separate tab. Links will open in a new tab as it should, so it's easy to navigate between NewsFox and the links I open.

You can also turn the notification on such that you will see dbus(?) notification whenever you receive a new feed (I have this off since I subscribe to many RSS feeds).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newsfox/

You can see NewsFox pinned in the middle of the App Tab (it's even turned blue because I have unread messages!!):

http://tetsudo.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/screenshot.png?w=300&h=187 (http://tetsudo.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/screenshot.png) http://tetsudo.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/screenshot-1.png?w=300&h=187 (http://tetsudo.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/screenshot-1.png)

[ctrlmd]

akregator on kde better than that laggy liferea on gnome

[Linye]

I was using the one in Thunderbird. Worked pretty good but now I have Google Reader tab pinned in FF4.