The End of Tt-Rss.org

The End of Tt-Rss.org(community.tt-rss.org)

23 points by Bolderman 227 days ago | 11 comments

suprjami 226 days ago |

I ran TTRSS many years ago after Google Reader went away. There was one particular feature I really liked that people kept making forum threads asking about, and the maintainer would post angry rants in reply.

Eventually he said if one more person asks, he would just remove the feature altogether. Of course, that happened, and my enjoyment of the software was reduced.

Nobody needs "brilliant jerks" like that. Hopefully they've developed a better attitude in the years since.

muppetman 226 days ago | |

That was one of the reasons I loved TT-RSS. People would ask inane questions and then get all put out when they got called on it. I'm not sure why world seems to think all Open Source Software must have maintainers that treat everyone super delicately. I realise a lot of Open Source software is maintained by businesses these days, so of course they treat every ticket with "Yes sir of course sir 3 bags full sir" but I really found fox's attitude harsh but fair. People HAD asked thousands of times, I understood his frustration. No one would read any previous threads, forge on in with the same question AGAIN and then got all sulky when it was pointed out to them.

What's wrong with that? Why must every open source maintainer be a sycophant towards their users? It's so bizarre to me that it's what's expected and everyone gets all "He's so horrible!" when they're not pandered to.

austinjp 226 days ago | | |

That feels like a false dichotomy. There are many more attitudes then only rudeness and obsequiousness.

That said, FOSS has a big problem with maintainer burn-out. It seems that projects like SQLite demonstrate more sustainable models, such as source-available and a closed group of maintainers who are exposed to limited demands from users.

tobias3 226 days ago | |

Looking at recent threads on the forums: No.

I do handle annoying feature requests on my open source project by just ignoring them.

neko_ranger 226 days ago |

Haha, funny to see this pop up on my ttrss instance on a vps that has been up for 2624 days straight (I haven't upgraded it ever, Debian 7.8). I can tell you that it works well, but I've been meaning to write my own for awhile.

mid-kid 226 days ago | |

mine is a slackware 14.2 with 1061 days. I turned off the auto-updating of the ttrss instance a few years ago as I intend to reinstall it somewhere else so this news is very disappointing.

EvanAnderson 226 days ago | | |

I'm still running my 2006-era fork of ttrss on a VM that's so old I'm ashamed to say what it is. I had to stick a proxy in front of it 10+ years ago so it could handle modern SSL. I can't imagine using the web without it.

Bolderman 227 days ago |

Hope someone will continue the development of this excellent rss reader

mid-kid 226 days ago |

This was the only RSS reader where I found that there were good native clients available for both mobile (TTRSS-Reader) and desktop (liferea).

As I really need the synchronization, and the offline reading capabilities of native clients, I wonder if there's any other software that does this right now.

muppetman 226 days ago |

Gosh this has really hit me hard. I love TTRSS. There is no other RSS reader that has filters like it. Means I can ingest massive amounts of RSS but use filters to surface only the things I am interested in. Wow. I mean it's open source but seesh. RIP to one of my most beloved bits of software.

stargrazer 224 days ago |

I appreciate your work, Bolderman. Sorry to see it go. May the future be fruitful.