Any good RSS Feed service for self-hosting?

clb92, 5 months ago

I use TT-RSS (Tiny Tiny RSS) and I slightly modified the default theme to my taste.

darkl1nk, 5 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I use Yarr (Yet Another RSS Reader). It can be easily deployed with Docker Compose and does the job nicely:

github.com/nkanaev/yarr

savbran, 5 months ago

Just found it and tried on my home server, it works:

<span style="color:#63a35c;">version</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">'3.3'
</span><span style="color:#63a35c;">services</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">yarr</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">container_name</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">yarr
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">image</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">maskalicz/yarr:latest
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">ports</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - </span><span style="color:#183691;">7070:7070
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">volumes</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - </span><span style="color:#183691;">./yarr-data:/data:rw
</span>

Anyway, it just have one view mode with 3 panels and it’s not customizable. At the moment, the most featured and exstesible RSS Feed service seems to be FreshRSS as suggested in the thread by @specseaweed.

LaterRedditor, 5 months ago

Being hosting miniflux on OCI free tier for a few months. No complaints.

damnthefilibuster, 5 months ago

OCI free tier as in Oracle Cloud? How’s that working out for you? Not miniflux… the cloud…

LaterRedditor, 5 months ago

Solid so far. Running two instances for some services I used to host at home.

specseaweed, 5 months ago

FreshRSS is great. Container is easy to run.

Showroom7561, 5 months ago

Agreed. Easy to setup on my synology NAS, and it works so well.

My only issue I’ve been having, which is not related to FreshRSS, is getting RSS in twitter to work reliably. Nitter hasn’t been reliable at all over the last year.

specseaweed, 5 months ago

I used to use a self hosted nitter for FreshRSS too. I gave up completely. I pruned all the Xitter feeds and looked for other sources.

Showroom7561, 5 months ago

Unfortunately, some orgs I need to get information from ONLY use social media and twitter was the easiest to get working via RSS, but not anymore.

So incredibly frustrating that accessibility isn’t a consideration when picking a platform to update customers/residents/members.

specseaweed, 5 months ago

Absolutely.

folak, 5 months ago

github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Lem453, 5 months ago

The new oAuth feature is also great and integrates well with my other services for family (immich, seafile, etc)

tinsuke, 5 months ago

I haven’t used it, but it is on my bookmarks for when Feedly stops working for me: github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

kensand, 5 months ago

Tt-rss has been reliable for me, and the frontend is decent. Not to mention you can just republish feeds for a different frontend to use.

bjoern_tantau, 5 months ago

I’ve used tt-rss in the past. Don’t know what state it’s in currently.

If you have Nextcloud they also have an RSS app.

bluetoque, 5 months ago

It is very stable. Just don’t visit the forum for help. The dev regularly roasts people, which leads to a very toxic environment.

bisby, 5 months ago

I switched to FreshRSS which works just as well, and doesn’t have a toxic dev

Dirk, 5 months ago (edited 9 days ago)

I remember years ago it already was like this in the forums. It actually made me stop using it and running a custom made web based reader for some time.

I wouldn’t use it anymore nowadays.

FreshRSS is the way to go. It even has plugins (and a plugin for YouTube channels as RSS feeds, very convenient).

sturlabragason, 5 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

For a self-hosted RSS feed service, there are several options:

1. Tiny Tiny RSS: It’s an open-source web-based news feed reader and aggregator for RSS and Atom feeds, praised for its Android client availability.
2. FreshRSS: A free, self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator that is known for being lightweight, powerful, and customizable. It also supports multi-user access, custom tags, has an API for mobile clients, supports WebSub for instant push notifications, and offers web scraping capabilities.
3. Miniflux: A minimalist and opinionated feed reader that is straightforward and efficient for reading RSS feeds without unnecessary extras. It’s written in Go, making it simple, fast, lightweight, and easy to install.

Not self hosted but I did it this way:

sturlabragason.github.io/…/Curated-News.html

six_arm_spider_man, 5 months ago

I’ve been running Miniflux on a free tier GCP instance for a few months now. Then I use RSS Guard on my desktop and FeedMe on my phone to read stuff.

I’d like to try FreshRSS, but just cannot get my URLs to resolve correctly with it. After a few hours of trying, I reverted to if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Miniflux all the way for me (for now).