so cohost recently just got RSS support for profile pages. this would be great news except i'm a fucking weirdo that uses an RSS reader that looks like this:
basically it's not set up like your normal reader where you have your feeds and folders and unread notifications on the left. with Fraidycat you have tags near the top, represented by emoji. a feed can use more than one tag. and instead of unread notifications, you get a timestamp of when the last post was made (e.g. if it was posted 1 month ago, you would get '1m'). also the color changes if the latest post was made earlier in the past. oh, and also you can sort your tagged feeds into 'importance' bins, which are those links below the tag tabs. it's nice for when you want to sort your followed feeds by how much you care about them. if that makes any sense.
fraidycat is great for me since i'm the kind of person that likes to keep tabs on a gazillion things at once, without wanting to be notified of every single update that said things make. it beats out a regular rss reader in that way since by using fraidycat, most of my rss reader's unread feeds won't be clogged up by tweets or youtube videos that i would only watch once in a blue moon, as opposed to someone who i would watch every day if i could.
(side note: i do have another self-hosted RSS reader i use which is more traditional and gives me notifications for new feeds, but i only use it for two things: 1) blogs that i'm interested in but don't update very often, and 2) webcomics)
the only problem with this is that fraidycat is super jank. if you want to move a feed to a different tag or importance, you have to edit it manually and type in the emoji you want to move it to and you can only do this one at a time and UGH it sucks. also don't get me started on how social media feeds will just break sometimes (since fraidycat attempts to use social media sites' APIs for feeds when you add them) and it can take a long time until the dev comes back online to fix it in a small update before disappearing again. i kind of hate fraidycat's ui but it's the only program i've found that's like it so i'm stuck using it.
which is why i'm asking you, the humble reader, who is hopefully at least a fraction of a dork as i am: do you know of any RSS readers that are similar to fraidycat, or at the very least, have options that allow me to seperate feeds i'm really interested in as opposed to feeds i'm not but still want to keep an eye on (e.g. disabling read notifications for those feeds/folders)? i'm really curious if anyone has the same weird setup that i do and can point me towards an alternative that's sort of set up like this. bonus points if i can merge my two RSS readers into one and extra bonus points if I can use it on mobile. i probably won't get any replies to this post but i figured i'd put it out there.
i dunno why i wrote this honestly i just wanted to show people that not all RSS readers have to be formatted like an e-mail client from 2002 anyways that's it be sure to slubscribe to my SoundZone
