Table overview of compatible clients (Help welcome) #2942
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I found it difficult - especially for newcomers - to find and pick a client, and I believe a table would help. Help welcome to fill-in the blancs.
Alkarex
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very nice for newcomers 👍 |
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Seems a bit annoying to maintain, looks good otherwise. :-) |
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Some feedback from my first impression:
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@Stunkymonkey Yes, some columns will require a little explanation.
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@kevinpapst Supported clients, but we can play with the ranking for some subtle recommendation |
NewsFlash has no way to store mutations of offline articles and sync them later. You can read offline articles, but you can not mark them read/stared in the offline mode. |
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@Stunkymonkey Maybe we should have a ⭐-scale in the table for offline mode, instead of binary. And maybe you could discuss with the rest of the team for considering an offline mode supporting changing read/favourite/label. I can provide the approach and corresponding requests if that can help. From what I can hear around, offline mode is one of the main reasons for using an app. |
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@kevinpapst I have replaced ❌ by ➖ . |
It is on the todo list, but it is considered far future. |
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The features are important, but who cares about the protocol that is used? Maybe some RSS pros could use that information, but in my world a newcomer has no idea what greader or fever even means. I don't really care, it was just my first impression... be honest: you just don't want to move the markdown columns 😆 Regarding |
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@kevinpapst Users need at least to know what URL to type in the client, and for the clients that do not have a custom option for FreshRSS, that depends on the API type (e.g. Thanks for the info on Unread. For the stars, I am not sure it is the best way to convey the info, and if so, I should clarify the scale. Something like:
Sync individual views: Allow syncing a given category, feed, label, in particular to fetch more articles (including read articles) than the global settings. For Sync read articles, if you mark as read some new articles on the server (not seen by the app yet), can you then access those read articles from the app? |
I believe this information should be directly given in FreshRSS, especially since some applications are taking the base URL, and some others wait for the full URL. It's on my todo list… but I don't know when I'll work on it 😅 |
FeedMe 3.15 beta added support for Podcasts in FreshRSS :-)
@marienfressinaud Don't you mean the URLs shown on https://freshrss.example.net/api/ ? |
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Exactly, but in the configuration interface and with the exact endpoint for each application |
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@Alkarex Have you tried the new version of my app? |
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@christophehenry I tried the version on F-Droid from a couple of weeks ago. I still cannot get it to work on my main account (sync error), but I can gladly try again (let's do that in another issue) |
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Thanks to your list, I just discovered Readrops. I think I will give a try. Considering it's much more advanced than what I did, I may just give up my project. |
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@christophehenry Some consolidation of efforts would be good, but it is also important to have alternatives - we need to find the right balance :-) On my side, I was kind of hoping that another open source app (could be e.g. yours or Readrops) would become better than EasyRSS on all points (i.e. at the very minimum syncing favourites) before recommending it instead of EasyRSS. In the non-open-source world, FeedMe (3.15+) is becoming quite good. |
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For Reeder:
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Thanks for the feedback @lx-s 👍 For the record, here is a trace of sync for Reeder on my test server: |
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I can confirm that all articles are synced, read and unread! If you require a trace, I can fetch one tomorrow :) |
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I suggest we publish the table as it is, and continue improving it when we get more data |
I found it difficult - especially for newcomers - to find and pick a client, and I believe a table would help.
Help welcome to fill-in the blanks.