Broadsheet is a website that crawls RSS feeds and shows articles inline.
If you hate modern software, you might like it.
Broadsheet eschews common features of investment-backed software:
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No recommendations: Doesn't analyze your reading habits. Personally, I resent software getting that familiar.
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No social media integration: Social media sites use shared articles to guess your demographics. No one cares that you read an article, anyways.
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No Pocket/Instapaper/Evernote integration: News is ephemeral. If you don't read it now, you won't read it later.
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No unread counts: Life is already a burdensome list of tasks to accomplish. Why give yourself another?
Broadsheet requires node.js and mongodb. You'll need to configure some environment variables before running it.
Environment variables are listed in .example.env - you can either duplicate that file, rename it to .env and configure values there, or just set them in the server environment.
Once you're set up, run npm i && npm start from the project root to get started.