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A modern and elegant RSS reader with Material You design
  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    301·
    6 months ago

    I absolutely love the You apps. That’s what vanilla custom ROM devs need: simple FOSS good looking apps. Fossify is great but alternatives are welcome

  • gigachad@feddit.de
    9·
    6 months ago

    I just switched some weeks ago from Flym. Flym was my alltime favourite RSS reader, but it is not developed anymore. Read You comes closest to Flym’s minimal design and slowly I am getting used to it.

  • Mannivu@feddit.it
    8·
    6 months ago

    I really love the design of this app, but it’s still missing a “Older first” settings which is keeping me from using it.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Have you had issues with entire feeds spontaneously marking themselves unread? I finally uninstalled readyou after fighting with that one for a year - it’s not particularly good UX when the app decides that 80+ posts in a feed are new again and worthy of a notification.

      • RovingFox@infosec.pub
        2·
        6 months ago

        hmm, i don’t know, I don’t have notifications on for it. I read from it when I get the need and what is recent.

  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
    3·
    6 months ago

    So far, I like what I see. It’s a small application, but I’m trying to figure out how push notifications work. Since I do not have Google Play Services and how often it will check for new feed updates

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 months ago

      Getting push notifications working on a vanilla ROM is a very tricky thing. Unless they made a workaround (which requires the app constantly staying in the background that devs don’t like apparently) it will not work properly. It’s not the app’s fault though

      • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
        2·
        6 months ago

        So far as I am able to tell, this app does not give me any kind of push notifications at all, even though it’s supposed to. So I might have to ditch it for now.

        • gigachad@feddit.de
          1·
          6 months ago

          I do not find any option for push notifications, the app also is not trying to register using microg. I am not sure why it is supposed to give push notifications tbh.

          • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
            2·
            6 months ago

            I just had a look at the description to make sure I wasn’t crazy and yes it says right in the thing that article notifications are a thing but it is not registering with unified push and it is not manually checking every x minutes for notifications so I don’t see how it has them.

  • toketin@feddit.it
    2·
    6 months ago

    Good app thank you for the suggest! I hope they will add also the ability to mark read while scrolling. I’m used to read through Feedme app, but since it isn’t opensource this one could replace it at all!

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 months ago

    Tried using it. Terrible UX. Lots of small annoying things that make the app usage very uncomfortable.

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    I freaking love it !!

    Beautiful, dead simple, compatible with selfhosted servers.

    I only wish it could zoom images.

    • kevincox@lemmy.mlM
      8·
      6 months ago

      Reading feeds.

      Mostly blogs and videos. Some comics. Some odds and ends like notifications for various things.

    • Safipok@lemmy.ml
      4·
      6 months ago

      Peertube channels, app/service development/updates, kick starter updates, nonprofit news, general news most importantly comics(and blogs)!

    • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      6 months ago

      I use it to follow news updates, blogs, updates of apps that I like, some youtube channels and lemmy/reddit communities.
      I’m new to using rss feeds, but it seems to reduce the time to open pages on the browser to check for updates.

      For example:
      Feed with post titles and content from c/ Word of the Day:
      https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/wotd.xml?
      Lemmy has built-in rss feeds.

      I also use the FdroidUpdate subreddit to follow updates. Is there a direct rss feed to follow?

      Notifies me of updates for Jerboa:
      https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/releases.atom

      The same for PipePipe:
      https://codeberg.org/NullPointerException/PipePipe/releases.rss

      PipePipe displays rss feed urls of yt channels. So I follow some local yt channels.

      https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/ - Helps to get rss feeds for services/websites that don’t have an rss feed of their own

      News websites like The Guardian and The Hindu(Indian newspaper, not a religious one tho) seem to have rss feeds for specific topics and main pages.

    • Evkob@lemmy.ca
      9·
      6 months ago

      That depends on your use case, I personally really only ever use RSS on my phone. Anyway, as others have mentioned, you can connect the app to FreshRSS for syncing.

      Also, feel free to ignore this, but you could probably make your point without being so condescending. Something like “Cool, but the lack of apps across multiple platforms is a deal-breaker for me.” Calling someone’s work “cute, but […] useless” after they provide it for free to the community is kinda rude, especially considering it’s honestly one of the best actively-developped RSS apps for Android.