Pains of Feed Reader Migration

For the past couple of years, I was using the feed reader program QuiteRSS. I had tried using feed reader programs in the past but I did not get in the habit of checking on feeds regularly. I allowed myself to get sucked into mostly using big corporate hubs to read news and find information. QuiteRSS was very simple and fast. Also, it was very easy to check the original full content from the website from within the application. Checking blog and other site feeds felt more like checking email so I finally made checking feeds a habit.

Unfortunately, that program has not been maintained since around 2020; I only found out about that recently from https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss/issues/1598. People on the QuiteRSS GitHub issue tracker have recommended the use of the feed reader Rss Guard. Rss Guard works okay but it seems like a downgrade despite being a bigger application with more features. RSS Guard fails on some RSS feeds for me that QuiteRSS could read just fine. Rss Guard feels extremely bloated and it seems like some plugins actively need Node.js in order to run; I absolutely hate Node.js btw. Despite the app having buttons to check the original source for a feed item, that function almost never works for me. Even trying to open a page in an external browser only works from the context menu rather than the dedicate buttons or links. Many feeds only offer a summary of the article text so having problems browsing the actual page on the site is a big problem for me.

Reading blog feeds will not be as conveninent anymore. I would hope someone makes a better feed reader or maybe one of the small QuiteRSS forks gets off the ground. I do not want to have to rely on X, Meta, and YouTube to get news.