[lug] feed aggregator client for linux

Sat Mar 30 08:50:00 MDT 2013

I don't know if tinyrss has a configurable cache - it may also be a
solution. You wouldn't be able to go back before the time you subscribed
but maybe you can set the cache to a loose approximation of infinity.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Davide Del Vento <
davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you all for the recommendations.
>
> I tried a few of these but just realized (should say remembered) one
> important features of Google Reader was not part of the RSS specs: the
> ability to go back in time as much as I wanted, not just back in time to as
> long ago I subscribed or (worst) as long ago as the last RSS push that went
> out. Google Reader exploited its cloud-based massive userbase to cache
> basically everything. Not only I could scroll back in time, but I could
> also search back in time, as long as the feed was cached by Google, which
> probably means that some other user should have been subscribed to that
> site at the time the article went out. Of course this was possible for
> Google, but it's completely out of question for any personal install. I
> mean, short of changing the RSS specs in such a way that one could request
> older articles... It's a bummer.
>
> I think I'll go back to the bookmarks, sigh.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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