[lug] feed aggregator client for linux

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 10:41 -0600, Davide Del Vento wrote:
> The tables in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators
> don't help me much. Does anybody use a feedreader on linux and have
> any suggestions?

I'm still using MyYahoo since it lets me configure pages my way and is
text focused instead of graphics/video focused, but they're lousy at
keeping the stuff up to date.  And they've dropped a ton of feeds.

So a while back I went scrounging around to find alternatives.  I looked
at Google Reader but rejected it - can't remember why.  I ended up on
Good Noows for awhile, but it's slow to display.  The best news
consolidator I've found now is Pulse.  Heavy on images (which I don't
care for) but overall it seems to be the best for variety of sources and
up to date data.  It can show clippings sized to their social
importance, but you can turn that off too.  It does allow some
configuration.  

Good Noows: goodnoows.com
Pulse: https://www.pulse.me/

Pulse is also available for Android, so my configs work on the desktop
and my tablet.

Still, the clean lines of Slashdot and LWN make me weep for non-techy
news sites that can't just give me reading material and focus too much
on clever interfaces and social-media(crity).

There was a time, long ago, when I wrote my own scrapers based on
http://www.newsclipper.com/.  Almost makes me want to go back to that.

> Just that I am in this "forget-the-web-go-back-to-the-desktop" mood,
> if you have any suggestion about email client on linux, that'd be good
> too, since I use Thunderbird daily and I really hate it (compared to
> the gmail web interface - however the last upgrade is ruining that
> too, at least for the composition window). Must have: a good
> "conversation view", possibly integrated with folders/labels (the one
> Thunderbird has is just a checkbox on the feature list: it works
> terribly, at least in version 17.0.3)

Nothing satisfies me here.  I use evolution since I don't care for web
based interfaces.  I have my own mail servers and don't need gmail or
related services.  If it wasn't for nasty attachments I'd probably go
back to elm.

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Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>