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Feed reader (podcast player, basic XMPP client and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 16 comments · first 2016-10-05 · latest 2026-04-04

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  1. …It’s reasonably featureful, while being snappy and having options to slim down the interface. https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
    comment by jcgl · 2026-01-03 · in Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
  2. …(web) on my windows laptop https://github.com/electh/ReactFlux - RSSGuard on my linux desktop https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard - Reeder classic on iPad (I already owned this, might as well keep using it) - PoweReader on my work…
    comment by dhruvmittal · 2025-10-09 · in The RSS feed reader landscape
  3. …the QuiteRSS sqlite db. It seems he has already completed it? I'll try to migrate this weekend then https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/1707#issueco...
    comment by ajot · 2025-10-08 · in The RSS feed reader landscape
  4. …has complex filtering and proper image support. Also a light version without JS or other bloat https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
    comment by akimbostrawman · 2025-01-17 · in I ditched the algorithm for RSS
  5. RSS Guard. FOSS, cross platform with mpv integration. lite is the plain text only version. https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/
    comment by akimbostrawman · 2024-08-28 · in What's your favorite RSS feed reader?
  6. …standalone software that I actually liked (though RSS Guard felt close to what I was looking for https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard ) and I wasn't looking for an online reader for this, nor did I want browser integration (too many…
    comment by KronisLV · 2022-08-23 · in Google Chrome is getting an RSS feed reader on desktop
  7. …is, and that it can get pretty bogged down when downloading feeds. But beggars can't be choosers. https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
    comment by Dracophoenix · 2022-06-24 · in Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
  8. …to "RSS 2.0/2.1" (by default RSS Guard set "ATOM 1.0") [0] https://tdarb.org/feeds/posts.xml [1] https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/releases/tag/devbui...
    comment by app4soft · 2022-05-15 · in This site is now a “shinobi website”
  9. …these are RSS, then you use an application RSS reader (aggregator) like https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/releases or even online http://www.feedly.com/ https://www.inoreader.com
    comment by pipiscrew · 2022-04-08 · in Ask HN: Non-YouTube tools for tracking YT channels?
  10. …mutexes and atomics to guard against shared access. Sometimes they don't know they need mutexes ( https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/362 ), or lock the wrong mutex ( https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/10540 ), or only…
    comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-04-02 · in Why Rust mutexes look like they do
  11. …(FamiTracker, BambooTracker, RtAudio), and sometimes it crashes due to a data race on collections ( https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/362 ).
    comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-01-01 · in A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
  12. …not constrained, no one wants the header of the news story to fill up the entire screen - RSSGuard (https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard) in the end i stuck with this, because just got tired because of so many bad options out there…
    comment by KronisLV · 2021-12-13 · in “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
  13. https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
    comment by maturz · 2021-07-04 · in Back to the Future with RSS
  14. …[4] https://hookrsstube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCa2Dyez... [5] https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/commits/master.atom [6] http://i.imgur.com/ab1eetQ.png
    comment by app4soft · 2018-03-27 · in Show HN: HookRSSTube – It's YouTube RSS Except Video Playback Is on HookTube
  15. …with "RSS Guard[0] + youtube-dl[1] + mpv[2]", as alternative to "SMTube[3] + youtube-dl + mpv". [0] https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard [1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ [2] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv [3]…
    comment by app4soft · 2018-03-27 · in Show HN: HookRSSTube – It's YouTube RSS Except Video Playback Is on HookTube
  16. …] KDE Kontact [ https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact ] Liferea [ http://lzone.de/liferea/ ] RSS Guard [ https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard ] Seamonkey [ http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ ] Thunderbird […
    comment by avhon1 · 2016-10-05 · in Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS