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by fileeditview 2101 days ago
At least a screenshot is there but maybe provide a bit more details.. I really don't get why people show off projects with zero description. Sure it's an rss reader but what features does it actually offer?

E.g. I see "make build_macos" and wonder if other platforms are supported? I don't want to have to find out myself that it does not support linux.

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author here.

Since it's yet another RSS reader, it supports the basic functionality of almost all the other alternatives (managing feeds, reading, importing/exporting, searching etc.).

The plans are to support all 3 platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS). You can try compiling it via `make build_linux` & `make build_windows` on the corresponding platforms.

I, too, would have appreciated slightly more documentation. Here are two questions I had, and what I figured out.

Many RSS readers are stand-alone GUI applications. I would have appreciated an up-front notice that this is a hosted solution. (Which is what I am looking for. I'd like the same view of what's read and unread on my different devices, thank you)

Different RSS readers use different storage backends. I dug through your code, and it seems to use SQLite, which is exactly what I hoped for. It's a huge difference in deployment and system administration headaches whether it uses an embedded or a hosted database.

Looks interesting! I'd also appreciate a prebuilt binary for Linux, but I understand that it's still early days. Paying attention :)

thanks for the feedback. i'll update the readme to reflect that.
the makefile in the repo shows that there's a "build_linux" command so you could just use "make build_linux" instead.