![]() Sadly Liferea does not support Feedly, which is the feed aggregator service that I use. Well, Liferea supports a number of third-party feed reader services, including InoReader, TheOldReader and TinyTinyRSS. This helps keep your read and unread items in sync between devices, as you browse. You don’t need to sign up or create a cloud-account somewhere to use it just open the app, add a feed subscription (it even has feed suggestions based on keywords) and away you go.īut what if, like myself, you read your RSS feeds on multiple devices, using a third-party service like Feedly to keep everything in sync? Other layouts are also available here.įor basic, frill-free feed reading Liferea is pretty much good as it gets on Linux. If you’re not a fan of the new layout you can switch back to old layout (pictured below) using the ‘view’ menu. The new layout reminds me of the much-missed Lightread, a desktop RSS reader for (now defunct) Google Reader: The app has always been pretty straightforward to us, using a layout modelled after Evolution, Thunderbird, and other horizontal-panel email clients from yesteryear.įor its latest release it’s trying something different Liferea now uses the ‘wide layout’ by default, offering three vertical columns like modern feed reader apps do on macOS and Windows. Liferea (a name formed from the amalgamation of Linux, Feed, and Reader) is an app that us oldies might called an aggregator: it s an app that can display feeds from multiple different sources alongside each other in a single app It also wide support for different feed formats (including RSS, Atom and OMPL).Īs Liferea recently picked up its first major update in a year I decided it was time to check in on the app to see if, in an era of visually-rich online feed reader services like Feedly and NewsBlur, Liferea can still compete. It’s reliable, highly configurable, and “just works”. In fact, Liferea is often the recommended choice for anyone looking to read RSS feeds on the Linux desktop. ![]() The feed reader, which has been around since 2003, regularly features in lists of the best open-source feed reader apps for Linux. Alternatively, you may have to click the RSS link and copy it into your RSS reader.‘In an era of online services like Feedly can Liferea still compete?’ ![]() Sometimes the RSS feed is automatically added to the RSS reader and updates are sent every time new content is available. An orange button is often used to display the service’s availability. ![]() Many websites provide RSS, which can usually be found on those sites as a link.
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