Open Source @lemmy.ml LemmyQuest @lemm.ee 1 mo. ago

Read You, A modern rss reader for Android.

www.f-droid.org Read You | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A modern and elegant RSS reader with Material You design

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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
- I just wish it had a better name. Anything You just makes my brain feel like it hiccup'd trying to reread the sentence parsing it a second time as a name.
  
  Yea a new name would be nice. Not everyone knows what Material You is and for them the names will sound low-effort translations or even phishy
- Is there a list of the other apps? Can't seem to search for just "you"..
  
  https://github.com/you-apps/
  
  Though it looks like the RSS app isn't a part of the pack. It's either unofficial or just a name coincidence
It has a great design, which I often find missing from FOSS apps. However I still like Feeder better.
- Same, I also couldn't get it to read the OPML from Feeder but hell yeah on the effort, looks slick just not for me
  
  Try to export again in feeder as sometimes it generate bad file.
  
  (Former feeder user advice)
- Different use. Feeder only works locally.
  
  Read You can sync with multiple types of RSS servers. I love using it with FreshRSS. Great for people who use multiple devices.
  
  I just tried to import the OPML file from feeder and it doesn't seem to work.
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.
- True gigachad indeed
I really love the design of this app, but it's still missing a "Older first" settings which is keeping me from using it.
Been using it for more then a year, really good app.
- 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.
  
  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.
I am a feeder user though i would be up for playing with it
Noice. I am currently on feeder but I'll tale a look at this
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
- 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
  
  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.
I use feeder. I'll try this too.
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!
What sort of things do people use RSS readers for these days?
- Reading feeds.
  
  Mostly blogs and videos. Some comics. Some odds and ends like notifications for various things.
- I use em for news feeds. Blogs. Its handy. Also widgets are nice to have on home screen for feeds.
- Peertube channels, app/service development/updates, kick starter updates, nonprofit news, general news most importantly comics(and blogs)!
- 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.
I freaking love it !!

Beautiful, dead simple, compatible with selfhosted servers.

I only wish it could zoom images.
Tried using it. Terrible UX. Lots of small annoying things that make the app usage very uncomfortable.
I checked it out, seems interesting but I still prefer Feeder. Mostly because I couldn't get Read You to actually show text/images from a page, for instance XKCD.
If only it had a widget like the other news apps
Cute, but a single OS RSS reader is useless.
- 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.
- it supports FreshRSS.
- You can setup a freshrss server and connect readyou to it
- Why?
- Really, can you elaborate? It's open source, it's free what's there not to like?

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