Comment by cosmic_cheese
6 days ago
Based on my own personal usage, it makes total sense that RSS feeds still get a surprising number of hits. I have a small collection of blogs that I follow and it's much easier to have them all loaded up in my RSS reader of choice than it is to regularly stop by each blog in my browser, especially for blogs that seldomly post (and are easy to forget about).
Readers come with some nice bonus features, too. All of them have style normalization for example and native reader apps support offline reading.
If only there were purpose-built open standards and client apps for other types of web content…
Do you have a recommended iOS RSS feed reader?
NetNewsWire is great on iOS and OS X. Use the share sheet to subscribe to blogs.
This is what I use. It’s on macOS too and amazing on both. Super fast, focused, and efficient.
It’s by far the best I’ve tried. Most other macOS readers aren’t memory managing their webviews properly which leads to really bad memory leaks when they’re open for long periods.
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Can also be used as a frontend to FreshRSS.
I wrote an article about the different kinds of feed readers and listing a bunch, maybe that's useful: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-reader-deep-dive
Same question, but for Android and desktop / laptop too. Never used RSS much before, hardly, in fact, I don't know why, even though I first knew about it many years ago, but after reading this thread, I want to.
I like RSS Guard a lot on desktop. It’s reasonably featureful, while being snappy and having options to slim down the interface.
https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
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desktop only: https://fraidyc.at/
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Lire app on iOS does optional RSS caching of full text and images for offline reading.