Kontact - Akregator VS Newsboat

And maybe subscribe to arch-announce. Or use a RSS/Atom Feed reader for: https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/ I use Akkregator on my KDE desktop. Source: 12 months ago

Akregator works well for me. I don't want to use my browser, but I want to preview the content. Source: almost 2 years ago

I use the default application on my Fedora KDE installation, Akregator. It's nothing too fancy but it's functional enough. I haven't explored any of the web applications that allow you to log in to your feed—for now I'd rather just export my directory of feeds as an OPML file backup if I'm switching between installations. Source: about 2 years ago

If you're a KDE Plasma user, there is Akregator. I don't really browse RSS feeds, so I don't have any basis for comparison, but it does all the things you're looking for. Source: over 2 years ago

KDE PIM comes with akregator as a feed reader. It is pretty unyielding and convoluted to use and too intrusive in appearance for a feed reader. Several threads in this subreddit also suggest that it is abandoned and unmaintained. There is a simpler kirigami-based alternative called alligator. I've built it from AUR and it feels better to use, but lacks * a global menu * sync on startup * marking all articles in a... Source: over 2 years ago

If you're using https://newsboat.org, you can add a filter (killfile) to remedy this:

  ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"#shorts\"".

- Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

> Have you used any modern RSS reader recently like inoreader, they load the content of the page without visiting the publishing website. I'm happy with newsboat[1]; but I'm not surprised that people have integrated scraping into RSS readers. Fundamentally, that's not a problem with RSS, that's a war between scrapers and content providers. If the email newsletter model persists long enough, I'd expect that people... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

So, I installed a terminal RSS reader called Newsboat and added the feed to it. I have it always running in a terminal, and the scores refresh every minute. I can open the Cricinfo link in a browser by selecting a match and typing o. Source: about 1 year ago

Here's part of my newsboat config (works great for subscriptions):. Source: about 1 year ago

Newsboat[1]. Having everything happen locally on my own machine is great - I never want to be in the position of losing Google Reader again. And the option to do non-interactive refresh makes is almost as nice for high volume feeds. --- 1. https://newsboat.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago