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I think I'll wait for an F-Droid release before trying this: https://github.com/msasikanth/twine/issues/38

I currently use Nextcloud News, but it's a bit slow (especially with my 50k+ unread items), and doesn't support dynamically ranked feeds, only chronological ones. It's nice having read status synced across devices, though.




Can Nextcloud News scrape the full article text if its not included in the feed?


No, it doesn't. What you can do is use an RSS proxy to create your own feeds of any site and read that through Nextcloud News. I do this for a few specific sites and purposes - e.g. custom searches on auction sites.

As to Nextcloud News being slow with 50K unread items I wonder whether there's something else amiss as I have close to 600K unread items without undue slowdowns.

The only real slowdown I notice in Nextcloud News is caused by a dog-slow piece of javascript in news/templates/part.content.php which causes a delay any time an item is clicked in the feed. This can be solved by removing everything related to 'sharing' (i.o.w. everything after </time> in the list div (class=utils), make sure to balance those tags...). News is much faster in use that way and since I never use the 'sharing' related stuff - if anything needs to be shared I can just share a link instead - nothing of value is lost.


It Technically could as it has plugin support but as far as I am aware it doesn't.

Some alternatives:

- TT-RSS¹ has multiple plugins, including the one I currently support Feediron²

- FressRSS³ has CSS selector support out of the box and has a readability extension⁴ that supports Readability or Mercury

I've been dreaming of porting Feediron to both FreshRSS and Nextcloud news. But I barely have any free time as is... one day

[1] https://tt-rss.org

[2] https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron

[3] https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/

[4] https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions?tab=readme-ov-file#by...


It supports it, it's pretty hit-or-miss though.

You need to right-click on the feed in the web interface → "full text".

The library it uses is a port of Mozilla's "reader mode" (readability.js) feature in Firefox: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/pull/563




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