[1bent]

When Google ditched Reader, they told me how to export my OPML, so I did, and vowed to never again depend on a cloud service for something I could do with a local client app. I've moved from one to another over the years. At the moment I'm using Feeder on Android.

Likewise when they dropped Listen for podcasts, currently I'm on Antennapod. If I can get an app from f-droid, I prefer it.

I can live with backing up my OPML files whenever I add a blog or podcast, and having no web server for desktop use or tracking read/unread progress; I just only consume from my primary phone.

[croutonwagon]

I had a similar sentiment. I did briefly use feedly until they started messing with their login screens some time back.

See, I had a local feedly login (with randomized password etc) but they Sussed out it was a google workspace enabled account/domain and would constantly try to redirect me to googles oath.

I moved to miniflux and love it. Easy to manage and super lightweight.

The only “feature” I wish it had was a “mark all items older than 1 day as read”.

You can mark all as read. And you can inverse your sort date and expand how many articles are paginated to mark large swaths as read. But a simple button to do some cleaning if I hadn’t read feeds in a week (and likely wouldn’t care for week old content) would be great.

Still is amazing overall and even that is a nitpick. In fact I donated a bit to the maintainer just this month.

[flkiwi]

miniflux is great.

I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service, but it would be super-nice to be able to enter a youtube username (for example) and have it build a feed from it, as Google is, at best, wildly inconsistent about providing youtube RSS feeds. Essentially baked-in rsshub functionality. But I'm fine running rsshub in parallel.

[croutonwagon]

> I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service,

Agree entirely. Which is why I never bothered to even ask the dev about my “nitpick”.

I did try a few git repos that would do similar, but they were based on old builds of ruby and well, it didn’t go too well (and I’m not a Ruby on Rails person).

That said I will just periodically purge all reads, and history, and refresh all feeds in background to keep it running smooth.

It’s actually how I came to this very thread.

Re: YouTube, have you tried putting in a channel URL? Miniflux is great at finding rss feeds from indirect urls. But I have noticed rss is increasingly being stripped from sites, probably in an attempt to drive actual traffic stats. I usually try to visit the external link for some sites to give them the traffic/hits. Nevertheless some of my favorite feeds like TalkingPoints Memo and The Drive have completely stripped RSS off their site, which is a shame.

[asciii]

I just switched from Netnewswire to Miniflux and love it

[notRobot]

Antennapod is an amazing podcast player! I'm using it at this very moment while in a long cab ride. Couldn't be happier :)

[IIsi50MHz]

For news feeds, I'd really like to tell it "always play most recent, keep the last n newscasts, don't play older ones unless I manually start them, skip to next unread feed source after the most recent newscast completes.".

I'd typic'ly want to listen to the most recent 'cast from a two or three different Japanese news sources, then switch to whatever else is unread, especially when driving. I'd want to set this up as an automation, rather than spend time manually overriding (adding, removing, arranging) AntennaPod's playlist and manually ensuring each playlist item is downloaded before I go to places with spotty signal.

As it is, I go months at a time without using any podcasts players because I don't know how find one that fits my very idiosyncratic use case. Life is usually easier if I just ignore "the news" rather than 'fight' with getting sources ready one to three times per day. (>.>)

[Eddy0]

Can you send me opml file, i missed my opml file ,it stuck in my old phone,that is dead

[lionkor]

Definitely +1 for Feeder, it works great