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Reddit to Stop Providing RSS feeds

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:18:00 -0700

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:56:28 -0700

The open source xsukax X RSS Generator is a “lightweight, self-hosted RSS 2.0 feed generator for public X (formerly Twitter) profiles, built entirely as a single PHP application with SQLite caching.”

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:03:13 -0700

Fread is an open source “decentralized microblogging client that seamlessly integrates Mastodon, Bluesky, and RSS” for Android.

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:54:39 -0700

In Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users, the Open RSS folks explain how CloudFlare’s bot blockers stop RSS readers from reading feeds.

(This article is a couple years old, but I saw it again on Mastodon today and it’s still relevant.)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:46:33 -0700

Sander van Dragt’s DailyFeed is an RSS reader that brings you the news once a day. Sander explains:

A reader that updates all day is never done with you. There is always one more item, so you check again, and again, and the reading never ends because the list never ends. DailyFeed closes the edition. When you reach the last story, you are finished — not behind.

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:10:25 -0700

Matt Birchler’s new browser-based RSS reader Birchfeed works with NetNewsWire, Unread, Reader Classic, and other native apps. Matt writes:

The place I feel most RSS apps fall down is in the web reader experience. Sure, you can read there and they typically have some additional features you can utilize, but they don’t seem to be very fast in my experience, and they tend to be mouse-driven rather than keyboard-driven. One of the things I really love about apps like Reader Classic is that I can navigate the app quickly and get through my feeds, all with a few keys on the keyboard. This experience was completely absent from the web.

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:10:51 -0700

Brett Terpstra’s new Marked Share is a

free online publishing service designed to give your Markdown a beautiful, permanent home on the web. And while it integrates seamlessly into Marked 3, it also works completely standalone in any browser.

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:56:07 -0700

Feedecho, inspired by EchoFeed (which is shutting down), is an open source self-hosted cross-poster — you can route items from feeds to “Mastodon, Bluesky, micro.blog, and email using configurable templates.” There’s a hosted version at feedecho.net.

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:06:24 -0700

Artemis is an RSS reader “designed to be slow and minimal. It’s a calm place to see what’s new on your favorite websites, with no urgency.”

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:56:30 -0700

Nextnews is an RSS reader for iOS that syncs with Nextcloud News.

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:34:39 -0700

Jeff Johnson writes, in If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate?:

The iPhone seems to have engendered a culture of anti-intellectualism and learned helplessness so pervasive that users have become evangelists for their own disempowerment.

The line “evangelists for their own disempowerment” struck me because it’s a thing I’ve seen (I think we’ve all seen) over and over, and certainly not just in tech.

What is the bug in human nature that makes some people, at least some of the time, argue so strenuously in favor of less autonomy and freedom — even for themselves? If we can’t fix it, how can we better work around it?

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:10:50 -0700

From open web champion Manton Reece comes a new RSS reader Inkwell:

Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading. Today is for the latest blog posts. Recent is for posts yesterday or the day before. And Fading is for posts up to a week old. After a week, posts fade out of Inkwell, so you’ll never be overwhelmed with unread posts. If you missed them, it’s okay.

It already syncs with Unread and we’d like to add Inkwell syncing for NetNewsWire too.

Congratulations, Manton! 🎉🎩

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:32:49 -0800

Jeff Johnson notes that different types of windows on macOS Tahoe have different corner radiuses.

If this isn’t the stupidest user interface “feature” ever invented, I don’t know what is. The Mac used to be famous for consistency; now it’s becoming infamous for inconsistency.

Gazette: newsletter to RSS

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:12:58 -0800

Gazette by Colin Weir is

a lightweight Gmail-to-RSS bridge designed specifically for reading newsletters in standard RSS readers (like NetNewsWire, Reeder, or FreshRSS). It polls your Gmail for newsletters, strips out the tracking scripts and complex CSS, and serves them as a clean, readable feed.

Beagle Bros love

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:17:37 -0800

Marcin Wichary reminds us, in “Our programs are fun to use”, of the great Beagle Bros, the inspiration for so many indie app developers — of indies who went on to inspire other indies. Without their leadership by example the indie app world would be smaller and far less colorful.

Unread remains cool

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:24:29 -0800

I didn’t have a new or new-to-me RSS reader to link to today — so consider this your periodic reminder about how awesome Unread is. 🎸

Stress-free RSS reader FeedCity debuted last year

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:17:13 -0800

FeedCity by Daniel Pietzsch says that it’s “Your feed reader for a stress-free way to follow websites. Encouraging exploration and sharing.”

In the launch announcement from May 2025, Daniel writes:

The main reason for adding yet another feed reader to the already huge pile, is that I couldn’t find an existing one with the features I’d like to have. Here’s how FeedCity is different, I believe:

No unread count.
Making feeds visible.
Feed exploration and management.
Lists: Following sites without a subscription.
Sharing & discovery: create public lists to share with others.
Openness.

This is more evidence that we’re seeing growth in number of RSS readers and we’re seeing different approaches and different emphases. This one is not just no-unread-counts but also social, with outbound RSS. Very cool!

New RSS reader Today

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:02:40 -0800

Jake Spurlock writes of his new RSS reader in Today Comes to the Mac:

Today on Mac uses a three-column layout: your feeds in the sidebar, articles in the middle, and the full article on the right. It’s the kind of layout that just makes sense when you have the screen real estate, and it makes triaging a busy morning of feeds feel effortless.

I note that it includes (local) AI summaries of articles, which is a feature we don’t have in NetNewsWire. It’s an interesting one — some people are very eager to see us add that feature, and there are other people who would abandon the app entirely the second we add any AI feature, no matter if optional and unobtrusive.

But that’s a side note — Today looks very cool! Congratulations to Jake on shipping the Mac app!

(Via Dave Winer.)

New RSS reader Current

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:50:20 -0800

Terry Godier announces his new RSS reader Current:

The impulse was simpler than a philosophy: every RSS reader I tried made me feel bad. Not because the apps were ugly or broken (most were quite good) but because they all seemed to agree on something I didn’t. That reading the internet was a task.

The UI of Current is based on that premise — and it joins a small but awesome number of RSS readers that are doing something besides the usual (see Tapestry and Feedland for other great examples).

Because RSS is an open protocol, and because there are so many different possible ways to follow and read the news, RSS readers ought to be a UI playground in the way Twitter clients once were, where innovation and experimentation are normal and celebrated.

From the author of one of the oldest RSS readers to the author of one of the newest: Cheers! And thank you, and keep making things new.

Maurice on Zavala 4

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:31:46 -0800

If you use NetNewsWire you know Maurice Parker’s work — so much of NetNewsWire, from Feedbin and iCloud syncing to the iOS app itself, was written by him. He’s up to version 4.0 of his cool outliner app Zavala and he writes on his blog about the decisions and tradeoffs that went into it. (I love this kind of thing. Every developer should write like this after shipping a major release. Me too.)

One of the questions Apple-ecosystem developers all have to wrestle this these days is how to handle Liquid Glass. Maurice:

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to have a Liquid Glass version of your interface along side the legacy look and feel of previous OS versions. This is because you have to update to the latest API’s to correctly use Liquid Glass and some things, like the spacing of elements have been changed. Basically to keep backwards compatibility for OS’s before the version 26 ones, you need to maintain two different versions of the user interface code.
So I made the difficult decision drop support for previous versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

I know what that decision is like, and I know Maurice is understating it a lot when he calls it difficult.