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BazQux Reader alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
FreshRSS/FreshRSS★15,712 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceSelf-hosted web-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed reader with multi-user support and OPML import/export.Open on GitHub ↗samuelclay/NewsBlur★7,573 GitHub starsMIT licenceWeb-based personal news reader with social features, feed fetching, and full-text article display.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Hosted feed-fetching infrastructure that updates paid users only
- Built-in secure image proxy provided by the service
- Native mobile apps (iOS, macOS, Android) and their offline sync
- Customer support from the paid service
- Prebuilt social-media-to-feed parsing for Facebook/Telegram/VK
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches BazQux Reader, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.