RSS update

Earlier I wrote that today there are excellent search engines as an alternative to Google search. To repeat the argument against Google search use: with Google search, in addition to being an Internet user, you are also part of the commercial product a product of Google, with all the consequences for reliability of results.

newsblur image

Another way to consume content from the Internet is through RSS feeds. Google doesn’t like that either, because with that, they can’t show you ads either. I switched to Newsblur after using locally installed QuietRSS for a while. I was missing the shared nature of the web, so I switched back to a tool with a web interface. Newsblur is good and has a fair price, but there are excellent other alternatives out there.

RSS Reader adventure

I ran out of max feeds on Feedly. I like the tool, but since I do not want to any more subscription-based software, so I looked for an alternative RSS reader.

Newsblur came up as best

It is a service but based on open source.

Tried to install in on my laptop.

  • Install Docker Desktop
  • Clone Newsblur repo
  • Install cygwin – I am running on Windows here – need to make newsblur
  • make nb

Runs for a while, tries to run a sudo. That won’t work on Windows… 🙁

Immediately gave up. Considered for a minute running it on my Linux server, but I am actually looking for something simple.

Then tried RSS owl

Install, needs Java. Installed Java.

Needs Java 1.5. That is a very old version.

Gave up.

Tried QuiteRSS

QuiteRSS screenshot RSS reader

Installed like a charm.

Unfortunately no OPML import. So took some time to copy from the OMPL export from feedly into this tool.

Now trying this out.

Lovely old-style interface.

Reminds me of the old RSS reader I had years ago.