(#l3fhzqq) @mckinley @will I'm a Newsboat user myself for centuries and can totally recommend it.

(#l3fhzqq) @mckinley see where I list some that I been trying out.

(#l3fhzqq) Good choice, @mckinley! :-) Yeah, I consider this a hack as well, but it is actually the official way to do so. Luckily, plans exist to make it more convenient and obvious by aggregating similar functions into one common new super operation. Together with a unification of key bindings and macros this would be even nicer. No need to press an additional `,` then. Anyways, Newsboat is already a pretty close to perfect software in my opinion. This reminds me, I should get after my long outstanding merge request (to an unrelated topic).

@mckinley (#l3fhzqq) newsboat

(#l3fhzqq) My new theory of “how to make the internet better, for me personally” is an “offline first” strategy that IN THEORY rss should be perfect for. However about half my feeds don’t include their page content in the feed. Isn’t that a pain?

(#l3fhzqq) @mckinley A custom script around feedparser, it turns feeds into mails. (mutt is my “information hub”, that’s also why twtxt ends up there.) It has a few bugs, I’m just too lazy to switch to sfeed, because it “mostly works”. 😅

(#l3fhzqq) Thank you all for the suggestions. I settled on Newsboat. You can set a macro to make mpv the browser, open the selected item in the browser, and change it back. It's a bit of a hack, but it works. In ~/.newsboat/config: ``` macro m set browser "mpv --no-terminal %u &" ; open-in-browser ; set browser "xdg-open %u" -- "Open in MPV" ``` It even appears in the help menu with a helpful description. @movq @will @lyse I hope you gentlemen don't follow my RSS feed then. It has no content because I write it by hand. :)

(#l3fhzqq) @mckinley Since a few weeks, I use petrolette.

(#l3fhzqq) I use `yarnd` itself along with a feeds service

(#l3fhzqq) @will That is a problem indeed. Luckily, most of my feeds do include everything. Over the years the number of feeds without content decreased, because I either simply unsubscribed or wrote some wrapper scripts that pulled in the contents and merged it into a new feed I then subscribe to. The other kind of problem is image-centric feeds. Here I have to open the articles in the browser.