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.
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.
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!
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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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 25.6 ms ] threadI use a fork of TTRSS daily, it's good software, but I strongly discourage anyone ever talk to upstream.
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.
https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl
(Settled on Miniflux)