RSS Readers
I am not a fan of RSS Reader. I use Hacker news, and it works great. But sometimes I need to monitor a lot of topics, so I started to look at the state of RSS Reader, and I tried some of them. Below my tiny thoughts on the topic.
Fusion
Fusion is a pretty simple rss reader. What I like of it its the use of SQLite, and a responsive interface. The lack of complex search of ability to tag things is a major setback for me, but it is nice to see and I see a lot of potential.
It appears like a mono-user application, which can be a bonus or a not…just keep in mind.
Miniflux
Miniflux is minimalistic but has a lot of features.
What I do not like is the GUI which is pretty ugly, based on click-action-url: I understand minimalistic approach but…
But miniflux has tons of integrations, and can download the article content.
Miniflux has no ability to mark articles with some labels/tag and so it is very minimalistic like Fusion. Its search functionality does not suppport regexp and it is pretty basic.
But miniflux requires resources (like a PostgreSQL server) and it is bit ugly… so it is not my first choice.
TT-RSS
Tiny tiny RSS despite its name it is not tiny, it is quite huge application in term of features. It has the ability to define complex rules to tag content.
Very nice is the ability to add a score inside the rule, to push articles up. Also scoring can be a way to automatically ignore/star things
What I do not like is the preference panel, which is divided from the rest of application and force the user to go back and forth during the tuning of the rules.
The documentation lacks some organic view (at least in my opinion) and some feature are not very clear to me. Said that, it uses regex all around for searches, rules, and so on and it is a good thing.
Also, ttrss provide a backup sidecar-container, which is pretty rare in docker-compose I see all way around (mine included) and it works very well. So from a software point of view it seems very well written.
It is PHP-based and have a good set of plugins