rss2email VS Feedbin

For a long time I've been a happy user of rss2email, originally written by Aaron Swartz. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

It periodically fetches the rss feeds, and sends the content to a specified email address where you can use your email reader to sort them into folders.

Assuming you have a "good" email client, this takes care of most of my RSS requirements: Free software, offline availability, and the ability to read anywhere.

The only missing feature I think it could use is a nice GUI to manage feeds.

If you are looking for free high polling frequency your other option is probably self-hosting. You can run https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email yourself and configure the polling rate. You can probably use the SMTP service of your current email provider to send these messages at no additional cost to you. You do need an always-on computer to run it on and the knowledge to run it (or the willingness to learn) but I know a lot of people enjoy rss2email.

looks like there's a lib for that already too https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/

You can do an equivalent thing on your own machine with https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

Debian/Ubuntu has the original version of rss2email (https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email) in the repos, and it is in the AUR. Not sure about Fedora or SUSE.

It would work the same for me, if only because I'd redirect the email to my RSS reader (via Feedbin[0] or Kill the Newsletter[1] or similar)! I suspect most people who care about RSS would do the same, but the Webflow docs[2] show it being pretty straightforward to set up, and (imo) it's an easy backup hedge against all your comms getting stuck in spam filters. Plus, it just feels more ADHD-friendly to me to reduce ping noise as much as possible.

[0] https://feedbin.com/

[1] https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

[2] https://university.webflow.com/lesson/rss-feed

I use Feedbin to read them. Because of their open nature nobody can tell the sole developer there “people can only read feeds using our app, and you can go pound sand”.

Comes to my mind one that I bumped into a while ago: Feedbin, although I haven't tried it. It's web based and it costs $5/month but it has a 30 day trial period. It works also through third party apps on Android and iOS (well, the latter seems to have a dedicated one by themselves).

There’s a RSS feed which you can use with something like feedbin.com

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I can recommend https://feedbin.com/ as a great replacement. It's $50 a year, but in return you get a service that is rock solid with an owner who is luckily very good in >> not << implementing features: no feature creep, no breaking changes, no BS.

I enjoy using Feedbin, as it's not only my own newsfeed for blogs, but it also supports Twitter too. The interface has a clean, thoughtful design which is really important for me.

I no longer self host it, but there is a community contributed Docker Compose stack for Feedbin.