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by MayeulC 868 days ago
I think I'll wait for an F-Droid release before trying this: https://github.com/msasikanth/twine/issues/38

I currently use Nextcloud News, but it's a bit slow (especially with my 50k+ unread items), and doesn't support dynamically ranked feeds, only chronological ones. It's nice having read status synced across devices, though.
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Zufriedenheit 868 days ago
Can Nextcloud News scrape the full article text if its not included in the feed?
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the_third_wave 867 days ago
No, it doesn't. What you can do is use an RSS proxy to create your own feeds of any site and read that through Nextcloud News. I do this for a few specific sites and purposes - e.g. custom searches on auction sites.

As to Nextcloud News being slow with 50K unread items I wonder whether there's something else amiss as I have close to 600K unread items without undue slowdowns.

The only real slowdown I notice in Nextcloud News is caused by a dog-slow piece of javascript in news/templates/part.content.php which causes a delay any time an item is clicked in the feed. This can be solved by removing everything related to 'sharing' (i.o.w. everything after </time> in the list div (class=utils), make sure to balance those tags...). News is much faster in use that way and since I never use the 'sharing' related stuff - if anything needs to be shared I can just share a link instead - nothing of value is lost.

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dugite-code 868 days ago
It Technically could as it has plugin support but as far as I am aware it doesn't.

Some alternatives:

- TT-RSS¹ has multiple plugins, including the one I currently support Feediron²

- FressRSS³ has CSS selector support out of the box and has a readability extension⁴ that supports Readability or Mercury

I've been dreaming of porting Feediron to both FreshRSS and Nextcloud news. But I barely have any free time as is... one day

[1] https://tt-rss.org

[2] https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron

[3] https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/

[4] https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions?tab=readme-ov-file#by...

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MayeulC 863 days ago
It supports it, it's pretty hit-or-miss though.

You need to right-click on the feed in the web interface → "full text".

The library it uses is a port of Mozilla's "reader mode" (readability.js) feature in Firefox: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/pull/563

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