RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

To sync across different devices maybe?

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Do you need that? You only need to sync the feed. There are formats like OPML for that. At worst you need a file sync tool like syncthing. The feed contents seen by the readers are all the same.

I’m yet to see a good reason why feed readers need to be web apps. This is worse than the case of git - a decentralized tool is taken and made centralized.

When you have 100+ feeds you really want to avoid reading twice the same entry. It’s the single most important feature in an RSS reader for me.

Agreed. The syncing can be managed other ways. The only thing I’m left with is using on a work computer for some reason, where one’s own devices aren’t available/permitted? But that’s probably not a common usage case.

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So the OPML file does handle the read status as well? isn’t it just a format to export and import feeds inside a reader?

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