What does HackerNews think of elfeed?

I'm definitely not trying to be snarky, but don't all RSS readers do this when you "Sort by time descending?"

If I'm misunderstanding your question, please provide more details.

I use elfeed on emacs (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed) with the time descending sort, and it does exactly what you state in the question. The newest feeds float to the top and the older ones sort to the bottom.

If I let too many build up, I simply mark them as read and they disappear from the list. They aren't deleted, and I can search for them at a later date.

In your case above on not wanting to "Mark as read", elfeed has an filter ex. @6-months-ago that when a feed reaches that age, it disappears from the list. A smaller time scale like @2-weeks-ago might be closer to what you are looking for.

Of course, all of this text is irrelevant if you aren't using the emacsOS tools and don't want to mess with setting them up. But since the RSS spec was invented, I've not worked with any of the readers that fit my personal approach as well as elfeed.

Good luck.

Elfeed, a reader for emacs: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed

If you're an Emacs user, I'd really recommend checking out elfeed (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed). You can subscribe to RSS feeds just by adding a line to an org-mode file, and then organize and tag all your feeds with all the usual org-mode features.

Also, I think the author is being a little pessimistic about the state of RSS. It might not really be "mainstream", but almost every blog I visit has a feed, also Substack offers feeds, YouTube channels, Reddit, etc. I only just started writing my own self-hosted blog, and within a week or so I got an email asking me if I have an RSS feed. RSS is very much alive and well, if niche.

Yes. Self hosting tt-rss[1] and using it for close to an year now. No problem what so ever; It's so low maintenance that I would've quite possibly forgotten about it if I wasn't reading the feeds everyday. Before this I was using elfeed[2] which is a great piece of software, but I read things across various devices and elfeed had some issues with that (after all it's supposed to run inside emacs).

For podcasts (since these are also technically feeds) I use AntennaPod[3] on my Android phone, but don't use it too often because of all the time commitment required with podcasts.

[1]: https://tt-rss.org/ [2]: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed [3]: https://antennapod.org/

For me, I am stick with terminal-like interface.

Since I am using Emacs, elfeed (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed) is my best choice for RSS reader.

My current cure to news binge is to use RSS inside emacs with elfeed[1]. Emacs has the great advantage to be quiet by nature. I use spacemacs[2] more precisely. So in the morning I simply type `SPC a f` then `g r`. That's it.

And very important I use HN feed filtered by number of points (thanks to hnrss.org): https://hnrss.org/newest?points=500

[1]: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed [2]: http://spacemacs.org

Newsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter. "The only difference is that Newsboat is actively maintained while Newsbeuter isn't." https://newsboat.org/

There's also Elfeed for Emacs https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed