![]() I’m very peculiar when it comes to this so ReadKit immediately won over my heart by this alone. It also literally copied the g, v and b keys from Reeder and it allows to amazingly fine-tune the typography of the text: typeface, size, justification, line height, article width. But fortunately, I’ve been proven wrong: it does absolutely everything I need and even integrates my reading list from Pinboard (other read it later services are supported too) which saves me a perma-open tab in my browser! ![]() After trying NetNewsWire I approached it anxiously because I expected to not fulfill anything I need. I discovered ReadKit through a Tweet by Lynn Root and fell in love immediately. Update : I’ve switched to Feedbin because Fever is not developed anymore and lacked things like subscription management in its API. If that’s too much for you, you can skip to my Mac app, because it has native RSS support too.įever also has some kind of recommendation engine but I don’t care about that – I just want a solid syncing backend under my control and if I really need to, I can always read my news using its web interface (although its font choice of Helvetica/12 is a severe eye-strain to me). It’s PHP plus MySQL and thus runs on any basic LAMP-based web hosting (which I get for free for obvious reasons), costing a one time fee of $30. So I went for something that fulfills all of my requirements and then some: Fever. But having the possibility to sync across devices is still pretty compelling. I would’ve been okay with a great desktop app. My New SetupĪs already indicated, I did find a nice replacement and since I don’t want to waste time with pissing on other people’s work I’ll just go straight to the results. To avoid all this drama again, a self-hosted solution is preferable to me over hoping that another service won’t just fold it. I read most of my RSS on my Mac but being able to read them on my iPhone and iPad would be a major plus. Additionally, direct Pinboard support is imperative. That basically rules out web applications – I lack the patience for their lagginess. The alternative should allow both “scan” modes and allow me to do it swiftly. Longer articles, videos etc which I don’t want to consume immediately go straight to Pinboard which I find much more versatile than Instapaper and it also archives the contents of the links for me in case they die. And when it comes to that, I’m really spoiled by Reeder: It allows me to scan everything quickly using keyboard only and additionally offers three awesome actions when I’m viewing an article: v to fetch the link and show in an in-app browser, b to open the link in the browser and finally g to fetch the article and present it using Readability (RIP). In other feeds I want to jump through all articles (ideally by pressing j repeatedly) and at least skim the articles. ![]() Some feeds I only skim, read a few of the articles, and then mark the rest as read. I’m also absolutely disinterested in some automatic recommendations services: I want to scan everything unread in my feeds and read what I’m interested in.
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