u/Own-Farmer-5224

My current reader is bugging the hell out (taking things that are years old and putting them back in the unread queue and claiming they happened in the past 24hrs, it's giving me >220 a day when it should be averaging 20-30 a week at max) and it's frankly the last straw after their stupid AI nonsense they've been pushing for ages now.

I'm hoping someone here knows of a free, simple RSS reader. I don't need anything other than to be able to import an OPML file, to add feeds with an rss link, to sort feeds into categories and for it reliably give me which have updated with links to the post. That's it. I don't even need any kind of 'search for feed' or 'cross-platform' nonsense, I only check rss feeds on a Windows 10 computer and use rss to collate stuff from one site so it's useless to me. I would greatly prefer free, as I'm not exactly high income (or middle income) so I feel every dollar pinch down pretty bad, and more subscriptions to keep track of would be unhelpful.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm so tired of the nonsense and being marketed to by people who have no idea who the fuck they're marketing things to.

EDIT: I don't use Android, so if possible something I can run natively on Windows 10?

I use Feedly free version to collect updates of user-written stories on a forum site I no longer participate on to read quickly. In the past week I've run into a problem where Feedly keeps 'reloading' old updates and telling me they happened in the past 12 - 36 hours.

These update are in some cases from 2024 or older. Right now my unread feed is clogged with 224 updates since yesterday when I cleared it all out, when on average it usually amasses a maximum of 20 in a week.

I have no idea what's going on, and if I can't resolve this I'm going to need to migrate to a new reader because right now Feedly is useless for the thing that I'm wanting to use it for. The 'contact support' button just takes me to a 'pay us money' page, which okay real cute. Why even have that button?

It's not the forum site; it comes with rss support and no one on there is reporting any issues with whatever readers they use.