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Most people complain about the signal-to-noise ratio in news consumption. I believe the issue isn’t the news sources themselves, but rather the lack of a proper RSS application.

A great RSS app should offer a powerful search function. It should support tagging, bookmarking, scoring or point systems, categories, and a "read later" feature, among other things.

You don’t need to eliminate news sources — just use filters and search tools to surface what matters to you.

An ideal RSS reader should also be smart enough to bypass things like Cloudflare and other unnecessary protections that break RSS functionality. Unfortunately, many mobile RSS apps fall short in this regard — and mobile is king these days.

To get something truly useful, you often need to self-host. But most people won’t go that far.

Personally, I self-host my RSS reader. I even built my own client, since I wasn’t aware of KaraKeep (formerly Hoarder) at the time. I’m still using my custom app because it’s now very versatile, and I’m not sure KaraKeep would meet all my needs.

Links:

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - my own project

https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS - all about RSS

https://rssisawesome.com/

https://rssgizmos.com/

https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds



It's strange how all these modern communication methods (blogs, forums, RSS readers) so often fail to have features that were available in Usenet newsreaders 30+ years ago. We had threading, searching, killfiling or scoring, marking posts to save, all pretty common features then. I'm not sure why there isn't more demand for them now.


This is why I read RSS over NNTP: https://feedbase.org/

(Shameless plug: I made Feedbase.)


I agree that most rss clients lack true power user features for searching and filtering.

I spent a bit of time proving out an idea to use Bleve indexing to allow scoring each article with weighted keywords but I haven’t had time to work on it lately. I’ll have a look at your links.


I use Inoreader and it removes duplicates (useful for rss feeds of google alerts), and can filter feeds so your feed is a tad less raw




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