Tiny Tiny RSS, a Big Big Thank You!

If you like me want to keep up to date on what’s happening in the world and don’t want Facebook as a single news feed you probably already know about RSS. RSS collects content from all your favorite web sites and presents them to you whenever new content is published. You no longer need to surf around to see if there is something new for you to read.

RSS has been around for ages and RSS clients was normally used until Google Reader became a popular cloud alternative. Unfortunately Google shut down the service in 2013 and chances are that you jumped to Feedly which is a great cloud RSS service.

I have used Feedly ever since, it’s great! However as with many free services companies needs to monetize somehow. Lately Feedly seem to push this more and more adding extra features for subscribers.
But I was adding a new RSS source and that was no longer possible. Now there is a limit on 100 feeds and if you need more you have to pay $65 pr year. But let me say this first, if your needs are well below 100 feeds then I think Feedly is your best option still… at least for now.

Searching for alternatives I found Tiny Tiny RSS, a open source web based RSS reader. I installed this on my server and have been running this for a few weeks now. I’m really impressed with how good it works, and with the right theme I honestly thinks it’s on par with Feedly….atleast for my needs. Now I can add as many sources as I want, and it’s free. There’s even Tiny Tiny RSS apps for Android.

Tip! Feedly allows you to export all your feeds into a opml file and Tiny Tiny RSS allows you to import it.

I said it was free but there is a catch…. you need a server with php/mysql and ideally a php daemon that can run to update the feeds. This is not for everyone to setup and if you need to rent this, its not free anymore.
However if you already have a server you can spare for this, then I can highly recommend Tiny Tiny RSS.
A GREAT open-source alternative and a BIG thank you to the developers.

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