I've tried to switch from Feedly to a self-hosted solution last month, and tested some of the different open-source options.

Different UIs aside, one of the issues I kept having was that some of my feeds wouldn't load because sites now have a bot/scrapping/AI protection in place (Cloudflare, Anubis, etc), breaking RSS readers. And that was with a residential IP, it was even worse if I routed traffic via a popular VPS or VPN provider.

I guess this will affect some users more than others depending on what we subscribe to, but I decided to keep using Feedly (for now at least).

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rambambram 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not to take away from your experience, but I wrote my own simple self-hosted RSS reader and it has no problems at all with around 2000 feeds I throw at it regularly. About 1% of the feeds does not parse for me, probably because of incorrect xml or a bug on my part.

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HaloZero 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Thank you for this post. I was debating about moving from Feedly and this just saved me a lot of headaches.

At this point the main reason I stay on Feedly is their ability to handle fake email subscriptions into their RSS format. So many blogs and other places don't provide RSS anymore :(

	▲	celsoazevedo 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd still give it a try if you have the time. You can easily run some of the alternatives with docker containers and from there you just need to import your OPML from Feedly. You don't have to switch, but it may work better for you than it did for me (it clearly works well enough for some) and you'd have an idea of the different UIs and approaches. I only use real RSS feeds, so I'm not sure if there's an open source alternative that can replace Feedly for sites that don't have a feed. For small blogs, especially those I sometimes find here on HN, usually they'll add a feed if you ask them. Sometimes it's just something they forgot to enable in their site generator or maybe they already have a feed, but it's a weird URL and it's not declared in the HTML. In my case it helps that the small blogs I follow are often from people that avoid social media, like to host their stuff, etc, and see the benefits of following sites via feeds.