FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator. It is quite lightweight, fast (it can manage +100k articles without complaining) and powerful (e.g. shortcuts, filters, responsive design, multi-views, multi-themes, multi-users, statistics, provides a Google Reader API, etc.)
It is able to import feeds from OPML files and / or JSON files generated by Google Reader via Takeout.
To conclude, it is still a project in active development, so feel free to give a hand to help and have a look to the demo: http://demo.freshrss.org/
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ErikR
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• Positive comment • almost 6 years ago • 5 users agree • 1 reply
After some years with TinyTinyRSS I decided to switch due to the crude community (see my post for TinyTinyRSS/TT-RSS). After a closer look at all alternatives I could find I have now concluded that FreshRSS is the most mature alternative as of today.
Evaluation
This is some of the factors that has been important for me during my evaluation:
This application have 11 contributors on Github, most alternatives have 2-4. Only 3 of the comitters are very active and has been so for a long period of time.
The activity on GitHub is high and has been active for a long period of time.
I collect a lot of feeds and like the history thus it is crucial to be able to view read items, this is not the case of some of the alternatives like Selfoss.
I like to organize my feeds into groups, most alternatives can do this and FreshRSS can do as well.
Some feeds I like to keep a short history of, some I like to keep a longer history for. FreshRSS uses a default setting that can be adjusted for individual feeds. It is combined with the least number of items to save, e.g. scarp all items older than 6 month but keep at least 500 items in this feed. It can be old but will not be empty.
In TT-RSS I used tags for things I like to remember or republish. This is not possible in FreshRSS at the moment. I can mark items as favourite though and I will need to manage with that.
The installation was flawless
I want this for my family, multi user is a must
Cool thing I did not know I might like is that I can select what feeds to include in the general "all items" list. Also cool thing is that there is a visual theme selector so I can see an example of what it is going to look like. 6 themes are included by default.
The overall impression (still after a very shorty period of time) is that I am satisfied and will continue the experiment and evaluation. All other alternatives I tested was rejected and I scraped the installation quite early.
Alternatives that I rejected
The Alternatives I looked at was:
http://selfoss.aditu.de/ Installed and tested. SelfOss is nice but not complete. Seems to be for one person only. No way to view history of read items.
http://readerself.com/ Cannot pass registration screen after install. Gave up and scrapped the installation.
https://github.com/xbmcfreak/phppaper Did never try to install because the ToDo-list on the home page have some important stuff in it like Mark-read and Search. I decided that this was yet to immature for my taste.
[Edited by ErikR, March 22]
MarienFressinaud
Thanks for this nice review!
I'm one of the developers of FreshRSS and I would like to know if you're still using it and what you think is missing? I see you would be able to edit tags, it's something I want to support since a long time too so maybe some day you will see that arrive ;)
Marien
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• Positive comment • about 3 years ago • 0 replies
light, easy to install on a mutualized hosting and working just fine, nothing to complain about
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dba
Comment • about 1 year ago • 0 replies
Seems to be the only self hosted RSS aggregator that does not have insane dependencies. Just needs a vanilla LAMP stack.
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1000i100
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• Positive comment • 9 months ago • 0 replies
Reserch, compact and detailled view, clean UI, just perfect !
After some years with TinyTinyRSS I decided to switch due to the crude community (see my post for TinyTinyRSS/TT-RSS). After a closer look at all alternatives I could find I have now concluded that FreshRSS is the most mature alternative as of today.
Evaluation
This is some of the factors that has been important for me during my evaluation:
This application have 11 contributors on Github, most alternatives have 2-4. Only 3 of the comitters are very active and has been so for a long period of time.
The activity on GitHub is high and has been active for a long period of time.
I collect a lot of feeds and like the history thus it is crucial to be able to view read items, this is not the case of some of the alternatives like Selfoss.
I like to organize my feeds into groups, most alternatives can do this and FreshRSS can do as well.
Some feeds I like to keep a short history of, some I like to keep a longer history for. FreshRSS uses a default setting that can be adjusted for individual feeds. It is combined with the least number of items to save, e.g. scarp all items older than 6 month but keep at least 500 items in this feed. It can be old but will not be empty.
In TT-RSS I used tags for things I like to remember or republish. This is not possible in FreshRSS at the moment. I can mark items as favourite though and I will need to manage with that.
The installation was flawless
I want this for my family, multi user is a must
Cool thing I did not know I might like is that I can select what feeds to include in the general "all items" list.
Also cool thing is that there is a visual theme selector so I can see an example of what it is going to look like. 6 themes are included by default.
The overall impression (still after a very shorty period of time) is that I am satisfied and will continue the experiment and evaluation. All other alternatives I tested was rejected and I scraped the installation quite early.
Alternatives that I rejected
The Alternatives I looked at was:
http://selfoss.aditu.de/
Installed and tested. SelfOss is nice but not complete. Seems to be for one person only. No way to view history of read items.
https://github.com/brainfoolong/nreeda
Tested the demo. To simple. Does not show all items in feed if feed is long. No way to read read articles.
https://www.commafeed.com
Java application which is supported on my web hotel. I never installed this one.
http://rnews.sourceforge.net/
Latest news 2009, appears to be abandoned. I never installed this one.
http://readerself.com/
Cannot pass registration screen after install. Gave up and scrapped the installation.
https://github.com/xbmcfreak/phppaper
Did never try to install because the ToDo-list on the home page have some important stuff in it like Mark-read and Search. I decided that this was yet to immature for my taste.
[Edited by ErikR, March 22]
Thanks for this nice review!
I'm one of the developers of FreshRSS and I would like to know if you're still using it and what you think is missing? I see you would be able to edit tags, it's something I want to support since a long time too so maybe some day you will see that arrive ;)
Marien
Reply written over 5 years ago
light, easy to install on a mutualized hosting and working just fine, nothing to complain about
Seems to be the only self hosted RSS aggregator that does not have insane dependencies. Just needs a vanilla LAMP stack.
Reserch, compact and detailled view, clean UI, just perfect !