I’ve been using RSS readers for years and honestly, lately a lot of them just feel kinda bloated to me.

I don’t really want recommendations, “smart” feeds, accounts, AI summaries or random banners everywhere. I just want to open the app and read the feeds I subscribed to. Feels like that was the whole point of RSS back then.

A lot of apps also seem to push more and more tracking or ads into the experience. I get that developers need to earn money somehow, but sometimes it barely feels like RSS anymore tbh.

So after getting annoyed one too many times, I started building my own small Android RSS reader.

It’s called CKfeed and the whole idea behind it is pretty simple:

no account, no tracking, no ads, no algorithm deciding what you should read. Just your feeds in one place. I also added a homescreen widget because I personally use that all the time for quickly checking headlines.

Still working on improving it, but I’d honestly love some feedback from people who still use RSS daily. Curious if others feel the same way or if I’m just getting old lol.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ckfeed.rss

Anyway… just wanted to share it with people who still care about RSS 😄

→ https://koorato.io

Built this because I wanted RSS without the manual filtering. You write one sentence describing what news you actually care about — for example "Taiwan tech startups, NBA scores, F1 Singapore Grand Prix, concerts ticket reminder in my city" — and an AI reads through ~700 RSS feeds every day and produces a personalized daily brief ranked against that prompt.

The prompt is the only ranking signal. No engagement metrics, no profiling, no algorithmic feed.

You can also follow / unfollow individual feeds, see why each article was scored the way it was, and read translated summaries on paywalled sources.

- ~700 RSS feeds (news, blogs, regional outlets)

- Per-article scoring against your own prompt

- 10 languages with auto-detection (EN, zh-TW, zh-CN, ja, ko, es, fr, de, pt, it)

- No signup — open the page, write a prompt

- Free, founder-funded, no ads, no subscription

Stack: Go + chi backend, Postgres + pgvector, Qwen 3.6 35B locally on a DGX Spark for ranking, Gemini Flash for batched scoring, Next.js + Cloudflare Workers.

→ https://koorato.io

Open to feedback — especially on the prompt-as-filter model vs traditional keyword/folder organization.

This was a blogpost they made. I'm just reprinting it here because the original link is timing out for me.

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In case you haven't caught on yet, some of us will just never be interested in being manipulated by those brain-rotting, never-ending homepage feeds you love shoving in our faces the moment we log in.

We would rather use the feeds you offer for each of your channels. You know, the ones you're hiding? The feeds we can subscribe to in our own feed reader to follow our favorite creators without having to be on your platform at all?

Well, your relationship with these feeds has gone from neglectful to borderline hostile, and we're tired of pretending otherwise.

Your feeds keep disappearing

Let's start with the fact that when using your feeds in a feed reader, they're unreliable. Users have been reporting for a while now that their feeds either go silent without warning or vanish altogether. No announcement, no error message, no explanation. Just... gone.

And sometimes they're out of commission for so long that people genuinely think you've just said "screw it" and axed them.

Is it a bug? Probably. Is a fix being prioritized? That's a harder question to answer. But when a platform your size lets something like this slide, it stops feeling like an oversight and starts feeling like a choice.

Hiding your feeds in plain sight

Another thing that annoys us: you make no effort to surface the link to these feeds. When visiting a YouTube channel, there's no link to follow it in a feed reader, no "add feed" button, nothing.

Instead, we're stuck trying to glue together a channel's feed from a bunch of jumbled letters and symbols like channel/UC4a-GbYw7vOacCHmFo40b9g, a hot, garbled mess that's unmemorable and clearly not designed for human beings.

It's sad to see when you compare that to the early web, when feeds were a first-class citizen and sites like yours wore their feed links at the top of their pages like a badge.

We just don't get it. You have the infrastructure and every opportunity to let people subscribe to your feeds in a feed reader with a single click. But you keep choosing not to. It's like you just don't want us to use them.

Nobody asked for shorts in their feed

Apparently somewhere down the line, you've begun a multi-year mission to become another TikTok, and that's fine, platforms evolve. But when that mission starts bleeding into the feeds of users who don't want it, it becomes a big problem.

Shorts are showing up in feeds whether we want them or not, and we've tried to express how much we don't want it as politely as possible (How many ways can we say "Not interested"?), but there they are.

When we subscribe to feeds in our feed readers, it's intentional. So if we add a feed to specifically follow the channel's full-length, higher quality video content, that's what we want to see. Shorts are the opposite of that. They're impulse content, designed for infinite scroll, not for a feed reader. And mixing the two isn't just annoying, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of what feeds are for.

So feel free to chase TikTok. But it should be okay if some of us don't wanna be dragged along for the ride.

There's a much bigger problem at play

Sadly, you're not the only platform letting their feeds rot. It's part of a broader pattern across the web where large platforms like yours have subtly, over time, made their feeds less visible and harder to use.

Why? Because offering feeds that can be used in feed readers lets us follow our favorite content without having to log in and constantly check your platforms. It gives us control. It removes your algorithms and the ability to manipulate us. It doesn't let you decide what we see and when, and that's bad for those fancy engagement metrics and ad revenue you all love so much.

Unfortunately, you're not unique in this. But you are one of the few platforms that still offers feeds that can be used in feed readers. So even if you're trying to make us forget they exist, we can't be too hard on you. You haven't removed them... yet.

Our feeds will be here even if yours aren't

Here's the thing: the technology behind the feeds we use in our feed readers has outlasted every platform that ever tried to make it irrelevant.

It survived when Google killed its feed reader while trying to take the entire technology down with it. It survived the rise of social media timelines. It even survived the podcast industry trying to wall off its own open ecosystem (looking at you, Spotify).

So your indifference is just the latest chapter in a long, boring story we've all read before. But if you're going to offer feeds, make sure they actually work. And if not, guess we'll have to keep trying to do it for you.

- https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken

https://github.com/Rybatter50-cloud/Feeds/blob/main/4_15_2026_feed_sources.csv

Curated RSS News Feed URL Listing.

File contains over 2500 RSS News Feed URLs.
All UN Recognized Nations + Additional Territories
All 50 US States
Language of Feed identified in column using international lang code (EN = English)
All URLs are scanned with VT and URLscan - Hits are removed.
Additional metadata fields included (some junk - sorry - its free)
Over 2K additional Scrape URLs
Column that has pay/sub wall status for url - included - suspect = wall

No Junk or dupe URLs - there are few (~1%) stacked feeds at some sites but they offer unique content.

I am continuing to update my URL db, and am now collecting Nations at a more detailed level.
If you have a professional use for a detailed listing for a specific Nation or Region, please reach out.

Enjoy the News!

Hi all, I'm the developer of BestNews, now live on Android.
It's an RSS-first app focused on clean reading and feed control.

Main RSS-related features:

• Add and manage custom RSS feeds
• Enable/disable sources per region/scope
• Search + source filtering
• Reader mode + publisher page fallback
• Save/hide/history for articles
• Backup/restore of feeds and settings

It also includes an optional video tab for users who want both in one app.

App link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.felcmg.bestnews

I'd really value feedback from experienced RSS users:

1. What makes an RSS app trustworthy long-term?
2. Which must-have RSS features are still missing here?
3. What feed-handling mistakes should I avoid?

long-time RSS user here. built something I wish existed.

most RSS readers are great for power users but require a lot of setup and reading time. I wanted something that felt as easy as opening TikTok - swipe up for the next story, 30-second AI summary, see all sources covering the same story grouped together.

so I built Trace.

how it works:

• pulls from 100+ news sources every hour (RSS where available, scraping where not)
• AI summarizes each story into a 30-second read
• groups every source covering the same story into one timeline so you see how it developed
• swipeable feed, personalized to your interests
• tap any summary to read the original source

what it's not:

• not a full RSS reader replacement. you can't add custom feeds yet (planning to add this)
• not for power users who want folders, tags, and 500 feeds — it's for people who want a curated daily brief
• summaries are AI-generated so occasionally imperfect

honest about the tradeoff: this trades depth for speed. if you live in Feedly and tag everything, this isn't for you. if you want to feel caught up in 5 minutes, it might be.

Android only for now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=online.yourtrace.app

would love feedback from this crowd specifically - you're the people who notice when news aggregation is done badly.

PS: 100% FREE TO USE BTW

Hi, I have a website which has an RSS feed, but for some reason it never updates when I add a new entry. I use Thunderbird as my reader. Is this a Thunderbird-specific problem or am I doing things wrong? Here's the link to it, in case anyone wants to check anything.

It might be because I host my site with Neocities, which is a webhost made for static content, but they seem to have their own feed, so I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.