[lug] feed aggregator client for linux

[Quentin Hartman]

I got tired of using Google Reader a few years ago and went on a similar
search. I ultimately settled on installing TT-rss (
http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki) on my server and using it.
I quite liked it. Not perfect, but very good and improving. About a year
ago though I got busy enough with real work and whatnot and have largely
abandoned it...

Just logged in an checked it again. I have 25000+ unread articles. Wheee!!!

It does have multi-user support. If you don't want to run your own, email
me off-list and I'll setup an account for you to play with. I'm not running
the current version, but maybe this would give me a reason to do some
housekeeping on it.

QH


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Michael J. Hammel <
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:

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