RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

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    11 months ago

    Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I’ve always felt they’d be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

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      11 months ago

      Don’t know what you mean by “actual content surfacing features”, but I’m quite happy with Feeder, it’s pretty basic but it’s FOSS and the notifications work!

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        11 months ago

        Posted elsewhere: Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters and grouped feeds. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

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      11 months ago

      Would you happen to mean readers with filtering tools? If so I’m interested as well.

      I know Thunderbird technically has them, but I’ve had trouble making them work as effectively as I’d like. RSSOwl had some that were easier to work with, but stopped being updated. There’s now a fork of it called RSSOwlnix, but I haven’t taken the time to see whether it still works as well or not. May be worth looking into though…

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        11 months ago

        Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS