Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader

Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader(github.com)

79 points by nkanaev 5 years ago | 25 comments

At least a screenshot is there but maybe provide a bit more details.. I really don't get why people show off projects with zero description. Sure it's an rss reader but what features does it actually offer?

E.g. I see "make build_macos" and wonder if other platforms are supported? I don't want to have to find out myself that it does not support linux.

nkanaev 5 years ago | |

author here.

Since it's yet another RSS reader, it supports the basic functionality of almost all the other alternatives (managing feeds, reading, importing/exporting, searching etc.).

The plans are to support all 3 platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS). You can try compiling it via `make build_linux` & `make build_windows` on the corresponding platforms.

maggit 5 years ago | | |

I, too, would have appreciated slightly more documentation. Here are two questions I had, and what I figured out.

Many RSS readers are stand-alone GUI applications. I would have appreciated an up-front notice that this is a hosted solution. (Which is what I am looking for. I'd like the same view of what's read and unread on my different devices, thank you)

Different RSS readers use different storage backends. I dug through your code, and it seems to use SQLite, which is exactly what I hoped for. It's a huge difference in deployment and system administration headaches whether it uses an embedded or a hosted database.

Looks interesting! I'd also appreciate a prebuilt binary for Linux, but I understand that it's still early days. Paying attention :)

metastew 5 years ago | |

the makefile in the repo shows that there's a "build_linux" command so you could just use "make build_linux" instead.

m_eiman 5 years ago |

Should have waited with launch until Saturday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pira...

scott31 5 years ago | |

Why?

jtanderson 5 years ago | | |

Saturday = int’l talk like a pirate day (as linked by GP).

Pirates say, “Yarr!”

stevenicr 5 years ago |

Glad to see people still making new ways to absorb via rss - I still feel it's the best method for getting news and things, and the more options we have to show others how they can be used - maybe the better.

Wonder if anyone has made a self-hosted way to create a 'my.yahoo' or netvibes , pageflakes kind of page with rss feeds?

I started to put together some plugins for wordpress/buddpress to allow people to make something like that for their own, but got bogged down and never tried to mash it all together yet.

Anyone have a browser extension that can find rss feeds for pages?

I long for the days of yesteryears where yahoo news searches had an rss button or link to copy right there - and discovering rss on news portals and elsewhere was easier not hidden.

junkblocker 5 years ago | |

> Anyone have a browser extension that can find rss feeds for pages?

I wrote/use this greasemonkey script - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/6261-rss-atom-feed-subscri... - it still mostly works but strict CSP on sites these days has been causing some trouble. Maybe turning it into a browser extension is the thing to do.

dewey 5 years ago | |

> Anyone have a browser extension that can find rss feeds for pages?

I was looking for something like that for a long time after all the browsers kinda removed that functionality. I'm not using the following for Safari and it's great:

https://rss-extension.bitpiston.com

junkblocker 5 years ago | | |

> Anyone have a browser extension that can find rss feeds for pages?

dewey 5 years ago |

Always great to see more RSS readers. Are you thinking about making it API compatible with others so people can use any of the existing apps?

I'm currently using https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux (Also written in Go) and it supports the Fever API which means I can use any app on most platforms to sync with.

jessaustin 5 years ago | |

This is probably a dumb question, but what does the Fever API do that isn't done in RSS itself? Does it keep track of what you've read already?

dewey 5 years ago | | |

Not a dumb question. It syncs read status across their web interface and every Fever supporting app on all platforms. You can also "star" items which then also gets synced.

nkanaev 5 years ago | |

author here.

I personally don't use apps, but if there'll be enough interest from the community, I might consider making it fever-compatible in the future.

michaelx 5 years ago | | |

I also use Miniflux and would appreciate Fever support.

mmcdole 5 years ago |

I really like the minimalist UI! I'm excited to try this out. I'm the author of the gofeed[0] dependency and it is cool to see people using it.

[0] https://github.com/mmcdole/gofeed

dewey 5 years ago | |

Thanks for that library, I use it in some of my projects too.

codydh 5 years ago |

This reminds me a lot of an older iteration of Feedbin: https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin

vmsp 5 years ago |

Haven't tried it but it looks nice. Reminds me of https://bazqux.com/

app4soft 5 years ago |

"Yarr" name already used by other project.[0]

[0] https://github.com/Yarr/Yarr

klinskyc 5 years ago | |

There are so many projects out there, it's hard to avoid naming collisions. I don't think a project with 10 stars can lay exclusive claim to a four letter name.

comboy 5 years ago | | |

There are already many RSS readers with this name:

https://github.com/channikhabra/yarr

https://fossdroid.com/a/yarr.html

etc. The name sounded familiar (I think I used one in the past) so I googled and I haven't found it, but I did find many others.