Hey everyone

I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds, but I don’t have enough time to read everything every day.

That creates RSS overload and FOMO: I don’t want to miss important posts, but my feed keeps turning into a backlog.

I’m experimenting with an AI agent that processes my RSS feeds and turns them into a personalized daily newspaper or short podcast.

It would summarize key articles, group them by topic, highlight what’s worth reading, and keep links back to the original sources.

Would you use something like this?

Would you prefer a written digest, an audio podcast, or both?

What would make it actually useful instead of just another generic AI summary tool?

Hello everyone, I have a self hosted FreshRSS docker container running. I can access it using my computer browser, iOS browser, and even using the NetNewsWire and Readkit apps. When I try to add my FreshRSS credentials to Reeder, I get a "Login Failed : The internet connection appears to be offline" error. As mentioned, it's not offline because I can access it multiple ways.

I tried using the FreshRSS integration, Reader and even Fever using the API addresses, and still nothing. I tried API password (that works on the other apps), and even my normal password.

I tried using the IP address and port of the container, and the domain name, I tried with /api/ and with /api/greader.php, still nothing.

Anyone knows of any other thing to try? Reeder is by far my favorite so that's why I'm asking.

Thanks

I was going through this subreddit and saw some really cool posts which were completely drowned out by shitty vibecoded RSS ingest apps. I don't want to accidentally make the same shitty thing.

Currently, I'm making this with RSS to detect keyword confluences between article titles / text, specifically trends.

So it ranks currently dominant trends and narratives, and shows how each of these trends and narratives interact with each other (via a tree network, and a bubble chart). It also shows the increase / decrease of appearances of trends in media sources by percent, notes abnormalities, and of course also just shows the incoming articles live. This is a basic idea of the foundational features.

I'd never sell this anyways, only open source it if its practical. does this sound like irrelevant slop to you?

I keep rediscovering why RSS matters.

A few times now, I’ve spent hours searching for an answer and eventually found it on some tiny personal blog that never shows up near the top of Google. Those are exactly the sources I want to keep following.

But when I tried to make RSS part of my daily workflow again, every option felt like a tradeoff:

- hosted readers are polished, but can get expensive or locked down

- self-hosted readers are powerful, but now I’m maintaining another service

- local readers are nice, but sync gets messy across devices

So I’m building kitereader.com : a managed RSS sync engine with a clean web reader, OPML import/export, and support for third-party readers.

I’m not trying to pitch blindly here. I’d genuinely like feedback from people who still use RSS seriously:

What would make a new RSS service worth switching to in 2026?

And what would immediately make you ignore it?

EDIT: Thanks for your suggestions, people. It looks like Newsflash is the most popular GUI option, and Newsboat the most popular TUI one. I'll try out both. Btw you could give them some love on alternativeto.net -- it seems these options barely exist there!

I'm sure most of you have already noticed this, but every 17 hours some "builds" a new RSS App / Site. They are all basically the same, nothing new, vibecoded and with no future / plan of support. I propose a separate thread for ALL AI assisted / written apps. The author should disclose how & where the AI was used, coding, rewriting, documentation etc.. I'm sick of these posts and without correct moderation, the problem will only grow. Thanks!

Hi,

I use a FreshRSS reader to keep up with news, and now I’d like to extend my news workflow.

First, I’d like to be able to read posts from Facebook Pages and Groups, including private groups that I’m a member of. Unfortunately, I haven’t found any good options for doing that yet. At this point, I’m open to any solution — even paid services that can generate RSS feeds.

Second, I’d like to place a self-hosted LLM between my feeds and the reader, or integrate an LLM directly into the RSS reader, to help filter and prioritize the content I actually want to see.

Can anyone suggest good ways to approach these problems? I strongly prefer self-hosted solutions whenever possible.

Hi, I like to read math blogs and just recently discovered RSS.
I really like it so far, however the math setting / displaying in my current reader is not supported (Feeder). I really like FOSS apps, do you know of any RSS readers that have this feature?
Thanks!

I am a long time daily "power user" of RSS with hundreds of feeds on a wide variety of topics. My RSS reader is my happy place and a key way I stay ahead in my field and up to date with my various interests. Having a solid and powerful RSS reader is a critical part of my personal and professional life and I'm willing to pay a reasonable fee for a good one.

I know there are LOTS of good RSS readers around (and even more coming every day now that we're all vibecoders 🤪) but I still think the big names - Feedly, Inoreader, Newsblur - are what I'd call "feature complete" readers. These have extensive quality of life features that make them stand out from the many open source, minimalist, and newer RSS readers.

I used Feedly Pro for years, then decided to switch to Inoreader Pro, and recently did a trial on Newsblur. The features I look for include:

- Mobile, Web, and cloud sync

- Algorithmic feed curation to improve reading experience (removing duplicates, prioritizing high interest stories, etc. )

- full article fetching live

- customizable reading modes and layouts

- creating custom outgoing RSS feeds of what I've been reading

- Monitoring different news sources (RSS, Reddit, YouTube, newsletters, custom Web search queries, monitoring changes in non RSS enabled pages, Google News and keyword searches, Fediverse, etc )

- Paid ad-free plans

- No enshittification or crippling of features to force me to pay more

- I could take or leave AI summaries

It's a long list of requirements, but that's kind of my point. These are all things that all three of these readers do really well. I'd really like to try out any other RSS readers that are in this top-tier class of feature completeness.

I just discovered Tessera News today and it seems to tick a lot of my boxes - still evaluating it but it shows a lot of promise. I had been trying SmartRSS but while it's a great young project, it's not yet ready to be my daily driver. Both of these are also very attractive because they are a one-time license fee rather than an ongoing subscription.

Which other full featured readers do you know of that would belong on this list?

I know it’s unconventional for this sub, but I figure I’d just go wild and not make a new rss reader. YOLO!

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 know Discord servers are hidden behind a login wall, and some channels are vibrant 24/7, but some servers have cool quiet channels with only important updates and I'd love to receive those without downloading MegaBytes of data and go through the UI, or even login sometimes.
I also know that self-bot tools exist, but I thought I'll look for existing ones instead, cuz I'm lazy.

I'm thinking about developing a new RSS reader with AI built in. What do you think? And how much would you be willing to pay to use it?

I’m looking for the best rss reader for iOS and could possibly be used on the web (not required but would be nice). Thanks.