Hiya!

I’ve just setup FreshRSS and subscribed to a few feeds I like, and while FreshRSS is great for doing heavy lifting on the backend side of things, I’m not 100% pleased with the frontend side of things. Some articles are loading the full article, while others are loading half or a third, having me to either scroll a lot or click to open more. This left me wondering if there are any good clients that can connect to FreshRSS? I have Read You on Android, but I mostly consume my news on my PC/Laptop. Is it best to try to tweak FreshRSS or do you have any recommendations for frontends?

Lemmy know! 🌻

    • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Oi that does indeed look sexy! Thanks for sharing!

      I really do wish one could choose how some applications look like (frame wise) not a fan of having Gnome-like applications on my KDE system, makes things look all separate.

      • hydrogenEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        RSS Guard seems to have support for Google Reader API, so FreshRSS is also supported. It’s also a Qt application. You can also find other clients on the 3rd party clients page of FreshRSS

  • darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    After having tried what seems like every available desktop rss frontend, I just settled on the freshrss mapco theme with the landscape thumbnail and dark mode via dark reader instead of the built in option.

    For the article loading issues, I’d recommend full-text-rss.

  • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m not sure what you mean by articles not loading properly.
    I haven’t had any issues with FreshRSS’ UI showing all the data.

    Have you checked the feed sends all the article in it?
    For example ars’ feed sends a few paragraphs and includes a link at the end with Read the remaining X paragraphs
    404media’s does send all the article content in their feed.
    9to5google’s only send you a single line from the article!!

    So, it depends on what you need.

    If you want to see the full content probably you need an extension which either curls the link of each item in the feed and replaces the content received by the feed with the one received bu the curl, or one which includes an iframe with the link so the browser loads it for you.
    IIRC there are two youtube extensions which do something similar to change the links for invidious or piped, one replaces the content with the links, and the other adds a new element to load the video directly in the feed.

    • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Probably my wording that could have been a little better. I only meant that some of the articles loads completely full by default and others load only partially, but can be expanded by clicking “read remaining paragraphs”. I wish for it be like this for all the articles as some of the articles that load in full I’m not always interested in, and end up having to scroll through the whole thing.

      Hope that made more sense.

      • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
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        9 months ago

        What’s the feed you have issues with?
        Or is it with all feeds?

        None of my feeds have a read remaining paragraphs to expand the article in the FreshRSS UI.

        As I mentioned, this one sends the full article https://www.404media.co/rss/
        And this one has a partial article with a link to open the page in the site http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/

        I wish for it be like this for all the articles as some of the articles that load in full I’m not always interested in, and end up having to scroll through the whole thing

        To skip to the next article you can configure the shortcuts native to FreshRSS, I think the default ones are h for the next unread article and k for the previous article. (I think these are the defaults because I haven’t changed them and I see these in my config screen)
        For mobile I’m using the touch control extension in here https://github.com/langfeld/FreshRSS-extensions