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I think everybody on here is constantly keeping an eye out for what to host next. Sometimes you spinup something which chugs along nicely but sometimes you find out you've been missing out.

For me it's not very refreshing or new: Paperless-ngx. Never thought I would add all my administration to it. But it's great. I probably can't find the thing I need, but I should have a record of every mail or letter I've gotten. Close second is Wanderer. But I would like to have a little bit more features like adding recorded routes to view speed and compare with previous walks. But that's not what it is intended for.

What is that service for you?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (3 children)

FreshRSS, i had it installed and setup with a fee feeds for over a year and only like this month has it become my daily read, i can get almost everything in there to just read through while I drink my coffee, sites I bookmarked but never go to can now come to me.

Also with 'five filters full text rss' to get all the images in the feed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Would you mind elaborating a bit? I've been looking into good rss solutions lately and blogs without a feed were where I got stuck. How do you use five filters? How do the two components work together?

Edit: Also, some sites WITH a feed like Pitchfork are next to useless when all you get is the headline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Here's a short blog post that summarizes how to use Full-Text RSS with FreshRSS. It's a bit of a pain to add new feeds but it makes for a smooth experience afterwards.

Otherwise, you could always just use RSS clients that have the ability to fetch full articles, Read You on Android and Fluent Reader on desktop both can do this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That plus a browser extension that finds the right rss feed for you like get rss feed url on firefox.

I copy the rss with the extension
Then I paste that into five filters
Use that to give it to fresh rss which will get me a nice looking post with images and text

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. Do you host five filters? Do you pay for it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah i host five filters, fresh rss, and a mariadb container for fresh rss

I personally don't host the firefox extension I just found it recommend on reddit to get rss urls from sites that don't have a link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not the person you replied to, but they say in their comment they use Get RSS Feed URL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

RSSHub (selfhosted)
It has a button to quickly add an entry to your FreshRSS, very useful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Love FreshRSS. It really is something that I didn't know I needed. I often switch RSS apps, and it allows for seemless transitions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what do you mean you often switch apps ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I like to switch RSS apps on the phone a lot because I can't stick with one, and none of them are perfect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's the extension for? FreshRSS can fetch contents natively.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The extension is to get the rss link to paste into five filters

Five filters takes the link and gets all the images and all that then makes a new rss link that you give to fresh rss.

When I tried just fresh rss a lot of the sites I tried wouldn't get me images or it would be just the headline and I would have to click the link and go to the actual site to read the article

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm still not sure that filter thing is necessary. FreshRSS can fetch content and images using the CSS selector of the website. You may want to check out the Advanced section in their documentation: https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/04_Subscriptions.html#retrieve-a-truncated-feed-from-within-freshrss

Anyway, whatever works for you :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Is it pretty easy to do? Does it give you a preview of what you'll get?