news_flash_gtk VS NewsBlur

NewsFlash is also pretty nice outside the browser.

Newsflash is pretty good, https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk

Simplest desktop app is probably NewsFlash. It supports both fetching the feeds locally and using various web services. It does not seem to have a Windows binaries available, though.

https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk - program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account. It combines all the advantages of web based services like syncing across all your devices with everything you expect.

NewsFlash : This is a great RSS reader for Linux. I like to use it for YouTube, since you can create RSS feeds for channels and have them show up in the app. This is handy if you want to delete your YouTube/ Google account but still want an easy way to keep up with your favourite channels. I can post a guide too if anyone wants more info on how to do this btw.

I use Newsblur, it’s open source and you can self host, but for the price of the service, I am happy to pay. There are apps for most every platform.

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

A few years (three at the time of this post) ago, I reported an issue I had in the (Open Source) RSS Feedreader of my choice, NewsBlur.

NewsBlur tries to handle this case by comparing stories and if they match up to a certain percentage of the content, considers them duplicates.

Here's the code that does the work:

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/apps/rss_...

I use both NewsBlur and Feedly as paid services, but NewsBlur at least is open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

Article on Animation Magazine (whose RSS feed I follow with NewsBlur).

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur - personal news reader bringing people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.