Newsboat VS ncmpcpp

Newsboat

Newsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter, an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. The only difference is that Newsboat is actively maintained while Newsbeuter isn't.

ncmpcpp

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Newsboat RSS Reader - Not Just For News Feeds

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Category Popularity

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Media Player

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Newsboat seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 25 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Newsboat mentions (25)

RSS is still pretty great
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
Style Your RSS Feed
> 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
Following cricket scores from the terminal using Cricinfo’s RSS feeds
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
Ad Blocking
Here's part of my newsboat config (works great for subscriptions):. Source: about 1 year ago
Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?
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