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Old Pink
December 7th, 2007, 10:28 PM
Having recently written a post on RSS, I'm interested in what RSS feeders you're all using out there in the linux world.

I personally use Google Reader, as I move between computers quite often, but in the past I've used Mozilla Thunderbird, and of course, Firefox Live Feeds.

I'd quite like a pop up style notification for blog comments, that'd be decent.

Oh, here's the post in question: Really Simple Syndication (http://www.topicalmatt.com/06-12-2007/really-simple-syndication)

Sunflower1970
December 7th, 2007, 10:37 PM
I just started using Google Reader since I, too move between multiple computers, and it's quite addictive :D

But before that I was using Sage for FF, which is a nice, light little reader

p_quarles
December 7th, 2007, 11:19 PM
Akregator. I really like how it provides full functionality with keybindings. I can look through all my feeds without touching the mouse once.

il-luzhin
December 7th, 2007, 11:27 PM
I've been using Sage for a long time but I just started browsing for something else. No definitive choices yet.

bruce89
December 7th, 2007, 11:43 PM
Liferea. I only wish it was more GNOMEy. For instance, the media player uses flash.

Snakob808
December 8th, 2007, 12:28 AM
I was using Akregator with Kubuntu, but since I installed Ubuntu, I've been using Liferea. I like Akregator a little better.

gn2
December 8th, 2007, 12:38 AM
I've never used RSS, what are the advantages, what can it do?

Snakob808
December 8th, 2007, 12:43 AM
With RSS you can get instant updates sent straight to the reader, i.e. adding Ubuntu Forums sends all the recent threads to your reader, or mininova.org sending all the newest torrents to your reader.

You get a lot of up to the minute information without having to go to individual websites.

p_quarles
December 8th, 2007, 12:43 AM
I've never used RSS, what are the advantages, what can it do?
It's useful for news sites, blogs, and anything else that gets updated frequently. Instead of constantly checking each site, you can simply subscribe to their RSS feed, and the reader will fetch them for you.

The main advantage is that you can get your news much more efficiently. It would be ridiculous to try and look at your 500 favorite news sites every day, but with RSS it's relatively easy to look through all the new headlines from 500 different sites and decide what's worth reading.

il-luzhin
December 8th, 2007, 12:44 AM
Never used RSS? Hit the RSS Feeds button on the menu of this site to get a brief synopsis. Or do you mean never used a reader? They just make all those live bookmarks from RSS feeds easier to manage.

gn2
December 8th, 2007, 12:50 AM
Never used RSS?

Correct. Not once ever. Maybe I'll look into it. I'm quite picky and wouldn't want to be swamped with a load of rubbish I don't want to see though.

fearevilleet
December 8th, 2007, 01:11 AM
+1 for google reader, works on every computer and has lots of cool plugins with grease monkey

Sam Plamondon
December 8th, 2007, 02:43 AM
I use NetVibes - set as my homepage on Firefox - so that I can see all my feeds whenever I start web browsing.

Old Pink
December 8th, 2007, 02:46 AM
I've never used RSS, what are the advantages, what can it do?

http://www.topicalmatt.com/06-12-2007/really-simple-syndication :D

Have a read, should explain all.

reacocard
December 8th, 2007, 02:58 AM
I use liferea. A tad heavy on RAM use but excellent in every other respect.

master_kernel
December 8th, 2007, 03:37 AM
Screenlets, of course.

DJiNN
December 8th, 2007, 04:09 AM
I've just discovered "Liferea" and i love it, so i'm using that a lot at the moment, but i also use RSS Ticker on my main machine (it's a Firefox extension and is excellent) and also been playing around with Google Reader, which is also very good, with the added advantage that you can access from any machine.

At the moment RSS Ticker is my first port of call because it slowly ticks away at the bottom of Firefox & is "Instantly Accessible". :)

picpak
December 8th, 2007, 04:12 AM
I'd quite like a pop up style notification for blog comments, that'd be decent.

Then you'd want Google Reader Watcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4808). :)

Mateo
December 8th, 2007, 05:52 AM
Actually Atom is a bit better than RSS but no one seems to use it regardless.

On subject, it's hard to use a software aggregator as it's just so inconvenient. How many people only use 1 computer? I mean, I own 4 just myself.

I'm really interested in aggregators that will combine all of the feeds into a single file. I would especially like for a reader to write to a PDF, so it's like reading a newspaper.

r4wr
December 8th, 2007, 06:29 AM
nice, i am also new to readers im glad someone posted this. oh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:popcorn:

Whiffle
December 8th, 2007, 06:32 AM
Akregator on ubuntu, RSS module for konqueror sidebar on slack (don't know why its not on ubuntu...)

olejorgen
December 8th, 2007, 03:19 PM
I curently use lifera, but I it feels very slow

LaRoza
December 8th, 2007, 03:21 PM
Opera, of course.

gn2
December 8th, 2007, 05:33 PM
http://www.topicalmatt.com/06-12-2007/really-simple-syndication :D

Have a read, should explain all.

Thanks, most helpful.

TeraDyne
December 8th, 2007, 05:40 PM
Personally, I use Thinfeeder. It's a great little Java-based feed reader. If you want to check it out: http://thinfeeder.sourceforge.net/

corney91
December 8th, 2007, 05:42 PM
Opera, of course.

+1

bapoumba
December 8th, 2007, 05:48 PM
Liferea. I just live in liferea ^^

I also use google reader from time to time, when I do not have access to my Ubuntu box.

onero
December 8th, 2007, 05:55 PM
I use Wizz RSS, it's a Firefox extension. Another good RSS reader for Firefox is Brief. The two extensions work very differently from each other; Brief looks kind of like Google Reader, whie Wizz keeps everything in the sidebar. I guess it just makes sense for me for the RSS reader to be integrated in the browser. :D

Xyhthyx
December 8th, 2007, 06:13 PM
I use snownews. Might end up giving it up soon though for a new terminal-based reader who's name I forgot.

Old Pink
December 12th, 2007, 08:54 AM
Liferea (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/) does look pretty nice, but what does it have that Thunderbird doesn't?

Old Pink
December 18th, 2007, 08:56 AM
... I'll give it a try. But I'd rather have one application that can do two things than two specialist applications that can do two seperate things better than anyone else. At least in this case. :)

Chibi-Tatsu
January 1st, 2008, 10:27 PM
Liferea (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/) does look pretty nice, but what does it have that Thunderbird doesn't?

Well, I've tried with Thunderbird and there's a few reasons I went back to Liferea:

1) Resident in the system tray. This is a big thing for me; I prefer to only have active windows on the bottom of the screen. While Thuderbird does have that firefox/thunderbird plugin for the system tray, it displays as a firefox icon (erk) and it's a bit cumbersome.
a) Liferea displays the number of updated feeds on top of the system tray icon. I just have to glance up and if I see an orange-backgrounded number, I know there's new feeds.
2) Ability to alter update frequency for specific feeds. Some sites I expect to update irregularly maybe a few times a month at the most, and others I expect a few times an hour. I don't like the idea of querying some poor guy's server hundreds of futile times per week; seems impolite to me.
3) "change to read" ease in Liferea. Just middle-mouse or two-button click and a folder can be marked as read if I don't see anything interesting and there's a couple dozen articles.

Now, there IS one thing that irks me. If the update is a picture, torrent or other file, I kinda wish that Liferea would just grab it instead of opening up swiftfox, which then asks me what I want to do with it. It should go directly to the application that reads it or be saved to my desktop. But that's the only beef I've had with Liferea.

pt123
January 1st, 2008, 10:57 PM
Just trying out Liferea, but I am having font issues.
It is using sans on the side menu and the items list (nice) but for the actual item it is using serif. Which is very very hard to read on LCDs and should really only be used on paper.

Is there anyway to change this. I don't want to go blind.

edit seem to have found something:

http://liferea.blogspot.com/2006/10/customizing-liferea-html-rendering.html

Chibi-Tatsu
January 3rd, 2008, 08:41 PM
Odd... my first thought is that it's the fault of the feed you're grabbing (since it just displays the feed info). I also can't see any options regarding font, so it's either the feed in question or some system setting.

Nano Geek
January 3rd, 2008, 08:53 PM
Liferea for me too.

pt123
January 4th, 2008, 10:52 AM
In Liferea

Is it possible to apply filters on feeds for Keywords

be4truth
January 5th, 2008, 03:23 AM
There are quite a couple of RSS-readers available and like in all software applications they differ in features and functionality.

I tried to use a least 7 of them and came to know that functionality differs greatly. It would be interested to know which key functions Ubuntu users need so that the developers don't waste their time in programming stuff that's no really required or wanted.

Let's go for it!

What key-functions/features do you need in your rss-feeder? Please be short and precise as developers might not want to get involved into novels....

Mateo
January 5th, 2008, 03:32 AM
1) Can sync with other computers. RSS is useless if I have to go over the same stories on every computer I own.

2) Some type of export to html or pdf for a newspaper style look.

macogw
January 5th, 2008, 08:07 AM
Liferea for me. The only trouble is that it doesn't work with Sun Java, only Iced Tea Java 7. Iced Tea is the open source implementation of Sun's (now open-source) Java API. If you have Sun set as your default Java, Liferea crashes when you encounter a page in it that has a .swf

ice60
January 5th, 2008, 08:39 AM
i use liferea, but it hangs a lot and uses all my cpu cycles :( i'm using the latest stable version 1.4.10. it might be all the unread feeds i have?? i've got 41,000 unread, does anyone have more than that and it still works OK? i'll have a look at the mailing list.

a nice RSS reader to try if you haven't used one before is BlogBridge because it comes with loads of feeds by default that you choose to have if you want. it's all setup and ready.
http://www.blogbridge.com/

lisati
January 5th, 2008, 08:43 AM
I just use the bookmarks bar on Firefox, which the Foxmarks add-on keeps in-sync with my other machines/OSes

raul_
January 11th, 2008, 05:20 AM
Is it stupid that I don't use Liferea because I hate the tray icon? I was used to aKregator, but I dumped KDE, and I can't stand having a QT app messing with my color vibes. Perfect = liferea + akregator tray icons.

If anyone know how to do that...

be4truth
January 11th, 2008, 08:52 AM
The purpose of this thread is to collect features for the developers about the RSS reader one uses. I feel this thread is not going in this direction. This type of thread is already in the Ubuntu forum a couple of times.

raul_
January 11th, 2008, 04:00 PM
The purpose of this thread is to collect features for the developers about the RSS reader one uses.

Is it? :confused:

be4truth
January 12th, 2008, 02:45 AM
The purpose of this thread is to collect features for the developers about the RSS reader one uses. I feel this thread is not going in this direction. This type of thread is already in the Ubuntu forum a couple of times.

No, it isn't. I was in the wrong thread. I started one for the develpoers. But this on is on my subscription list too.

markp1989
January 23rd, 2008, 10:21 PM
i use liferea, because i like that it sits in the tray

ice60
January 27th, 2008, 02:47 AM
Is it stupid that I don't use Liferea because I hate the tray icon? I was used to aKregator, but I dumped KDE, and I can't stand having a QT app messing with my color vibes. Perfect = liferea + akregator tray icons.

If anyone know how to do that...
there are a few different tray icons at gnome-look
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Liferea+32x32+Notification+Icons?content=66504
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LIFEREA%3A+Tango-Foxtrot?content=54930
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Liferea+tangozilla?content=46294
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Liferea-tango?content=41404

i picked my favourites from them all, then kept the icons so i can update them again when i upgrade liferea (they get over-written with upgrades)

if you still don't like the tray icon you can replace it, i think it's called default.png.

raul_
January 27th, 2008, 04:52 AM
You may have saved my rss-reading days :D

Christmas
January 27th, 2008, 06:01 AM
I use Akregator and find it very nice.

rah215
January 27th, 2008, 06:14 AM
I have been using Google Reader for a while. I like the portability that it offers.

rabbitofdeath
January 27th, 2008, 06:34 AM
Akregator for the win - I used to use Google Reader which I really like, but I love the fact that I don't have to be connected to the net to use Akregator.

Tekno_Cowboy
January 31st, 2008, 09:54 AM
I mostly use RSS to track torrents, and I like the color-coding(read and unread) of akregator, and it's archiving feature is nice. I just have the problem in kubuntu that it likes to lose it's ability to archive.

lisar915
May 22nd, 2008, 08:54 PM
I'm very fussy about RSS readers.

So here are some features I would like to have. First off, it would be nice to organize the newfeeds in folders, and folders within folders. I would also like to be able to read an entire article within the newsreader, without having a new browser window open up. But *most importantly, I would like the option of being able to save various articles into news bin or clipping folders, based on subject matter, for instance, health, humor, world news, etc.

cardinals_fan
May 23rd, 2008, 01:32 AM
Opera is my RSS reader.

klausner
August 13th, 2008, 12:21 AM
I have been using Google Reader for a while. I like the portability that it offers.

Yes, Google reader is very nice, until Google flakes out the way it has been doing for the last couple of days. I've decided I don't want to be at the mercy of a service that won't even post outage info notices.

So I'm trying Lifrea. Fairly nice, until it sucks all the CPU cycles. Has already locked my system once, and I've only been using it a couple of hours. :(

edyeeh
October 6th, 2008, 05:18 PM
Pageflakes for online reading. Although reading online sometimes takes too long to load and not very desktop friendly (no updates, alerts).

I'm trying liferea right now. It look nice and simple. Even gets RSS straight from Firefox. I'll probably stick with this.

derekge
October 13th, 2009, 06:56 AM
Liferea is nice but Google Reader makes it easy when you work from a few computers.