Open RSS Scores Readers on Their Support for RSS
The non-profit advocacy group Open RSS has an interesting RSS scoreboard that rates the RSS readers that request its feeds, indicating whether they meet the following criteria: open source, self-hostable, filtering, search, folders, import/export, full-text mode, mark read on scroll, sorting, custom rules, language translation and offline reading. The page also indicates whether they have browser extensions and what operating systems they're on.
This is too much information for a casual RSS user, but as an experienced consumer of feeds I appreciate being able to shop around for a new reader based on the features I care about. Open RSS has compiled a lot of information in one place. A reader I'm thinking about using, Miniflux, supports all but two features on the list!
Open RSS gives each reader an overall status score (hover over the icons in the row to see them):
- Green check mark: This app is likely compatible with RSS feeds
- Yellow warning triangle: This app has unresolved issues that may cause RSS feeds not to so work well when used in the application
- Red stop circle: This reader remains incompatible with RSS feeds due to the overwhelming amount of unresolved issues its owners refuse to resolve
- Red stop circle: This reader is no longer maintained and is known to be incompatible with RSS feeds
- Gray dot: The status of this application hasn't been determined yet
The popular RSS reader Inoreader scores particularly badly, as detailed on a page listing all of the problems. According to Open RSS, Inoreader uses multiple networks "to request feeds too frequently," does not identify itself, requests feeds from the wrong URLs and does not update feed requests.
Categories: RSS, Open RSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, RSS Readers
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