I’m thinking about running FreshRSS on my local Linux PC, but my computer isn’t on all the time.

Basically all I want is to have read/unread status synced between my PC and other 2 phones. Could I have that? Most of time my PC would be off and I will be reading articles on phone, would the read status be synced to PC once it’s on?

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m not familiar with FreshRSS, but assuming that there’s something in the protocol that lets a reader push up a “read” bit on an per article basis — this page references a “GReader” API — I’d assume that that’d depend on the client, not the server.

    If the client attempts an update and fails and that causes it to not retry again later, then I imagine that it wouldn’t work. If it does retry until it sets the bit, I’d imagine that it does work. The FreshRSS server can’t really be a factor, because it won’t know whether the client has tried to talk to it when it’s off.

    EDIT: Some of the clients in the table on the page I linked to say that they “work offline”, so I assume that the developers at least have some level of disconnected operation in mind.

    The RSS readers I’ve always used are strictly pull. They don’t set bits on the server, and any “read” flag lives only on the client.

      • Erick@piefed.erick.shEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Agree here too. FreshRSS is an RSS aggregator, basically a self-hosted GReader, which means it fetches the item contents and syncs the read status across clients. That is the HUGE advantage of using it instead of just adding the feeds directly to your client in your device.

        Other FreshRSS features I love are the option to load full content of item that only share excerpts, and the option to use CSS selectors to remove content you don’t want (like embedded ads).