RSS Feed Reader: Feedbro
Posted on August 2, 2024 by Aywren
Almost every year that Blaugust when around, I feel the need to write at least one post about RSS feeds or feed readers. This is because I still find this the most reliable way of getting my updates and news, especially since I’m no long part of the Twitter/X ecosystem.
For the past 4-5 months or so, I’ve been trying out a new browser extension called Feedbro, which has replaced my old feed reader, which was Inoreader. Why did I switch readers, especially after having used Inoreader for as long as I did?
Several reasons:
- Inoreader free limited the number of feeds I could follow. I don’t see a limit on Feedbro.
- Inoreader free limited the types of sites you could use as feeds. Feedbro doesn’t. In fact, Feedbro allows for making feeds of from other social media sites and YouTube.
The flexibility of Feedbro to pull in feeds from other socials means that I no longer have to go to that social in order to keep up with news posted there. Instead, I just make it a feed and keep up with it from Feedbro. Though it seems this isn’t foolproof because Twitter is constantly trying to block other apps from pulling in content from them – I had Twitter feeds working for a while, and now I do not. Thanks X.
Locating a feed on a website is very easy, to boot. You just navigate to that site or channel, click on the Feedbro extension icon on your browser, and select Find Feeds in Current Tab.
If there is a feed to find, it will return it and allow you to customize things like the feed name and what folder you want to save it in.
Whenever you want to check your feeds, you just click that extension icon in your browser, which also displays a small number to let you know how many unread feeds you have. There are many different views to choose from in the reader, and lots of settings, including rules you can set and statistics you can view about your usage.
If you want to add Feedbro to another browser, backing up your feeds and rules to export and import is super easy, too, right on the settings page. You can even import the lovely OPML file for all Blaugust feeds that Belghast put together!
It’s not the most stylish reader out there (though it does have themes to choose from), but for the price (free), it does the most without the limitations of other free readers that I’ve ever tried. So, if you’ve been looking to try out a new RSS reader that allows you to tap into socials and YouTube, give Feedbro a look!
Shameless Plug: If you do use a feed reader, here’s my RSS: https://aywren.com/feed.xml