The End of Tt-Rss.org

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The shutdown of tt-rss.org, a public Tiny Tiny RSS instance, sparks discussion about the challenges of maintaining free services and the importance of self-hosting.

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kevinsky

3 months ago

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Liked the product. The developer's blog post sounds they feel burned out and not appreciated. Might be due to their take it or leave it attitude.

ocdtrekkie

3 months ago

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The developer of this project makes being a jerk to everyone who talks to him his personal mission. People asking for support are insulted on his forum... pretty routinely.

I use a fork of TTRSS daily, it's good software, but I strongly discourage anyone ever talk to upstream.

4oo4

3 months ago

1 reply

what's the fork that you use?

ocdtrekkie

3 months ago

It's packaged for Sandstorm, so it's not a fork that will necessarily "continue development" or anything. It actually currently tracks to a couple year old version of TTRSS.

altairprime

3 months ago

Appreciation isn’t the certain source of joy for hobby projects that most users think it ought to be. If you’re intrinsically motivated enough to create something like this, then you’re intrinsically bored by it, too. Appreciation does not necessarily have any bearing on that, no matter that your users hope otherwise, especially in fields like tech where neurodivergence is a local norm. May their departure serve as a beacon for others to leave behind the unrewarding.

rpdillon

3 months ago

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Fox always was an interesting personality, and this post seems a fitting tone to close out the project. I really like tt-rss, and self-hosted it for years after Google Reader's untimely demise, but switched to FreshRSS some years back, and haven't looked back. I will clone tt-rss's repo, though. It has more features in some ways, and is worth preserving.

mekster

3 months ago

1 reply

NextCloud news did just fine as a replacement.

jeena

3 months ago

NextCloud news has the problem that you need to install and use NextCloud to use it.

aboardRat4

3 months ago

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Ttrss misses the point really.

It's yet again rewriting a mail reader interface, which is hard and seldom useful.

What we really need is a way to fetch walled garden and rss content into a maildir, and then our mail clients will do the rest.

frumiousirc

3 months ago

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> What we really need is a way to fetch walled garden and rss content into a maildir, and then our mail clients will do the rest.

Inspired by your comment I tried blending together rss2email, Maildir, notmuch and gnus. While it all "works" the RSS feed content comes through in markdown'ish (?) markup. The flowers are out of the garden but they are all a bit wilted.

aboardRat4

3 months ago

There is rss-bridge. It's more advanced.

But actually it's not possible to avoid selenium, I'm afraid.

For gnus, we'd have to render markdown into html.

pabs3

3 months ago

Check out forum-dl:

https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl

devilkin

3 months ago

There's a fork: https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss

Xiol

3 months ago

Funnily enough I set up a self-hosted RSS reader last night and TTRSS was one of the options I considered, having used it years ago. Feel like I dodged a bullet picking an alternative!

(Settled on Miniflux)

BoredPositron

3 months ago

I used it for ten years after google reader got nuked and wanted to give something back. Wrote some bugfixes and one or two new features. It was not a pleasant experience. Switched to fresh and found a great community... I'll leave it at that. Sad to see it go but more because of nostalgia than anything else.

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