I wish software could be captured in time with particular versions. Like, can I continue using this piece of software as it is right now, forever?
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I tried different options like Feedbin or Feedly, but my favorite and the one I use every day is NetNewsWire. I use it on my phone + desktop.
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Inoreader is great for getting started. When I wanted to move off a monetized platform I was pretty happy with NetNewsReader. I then needed to sync articles from Mac to Android so I went with self hosting yarr, it’s a single executable application that uses SQLite without needing an external database (unlike miniflux). I can access my feed online from any device.
FreshRSS is another great choice, it supports multiple user logins unlike yarr.
There are also a few other options that shows you an aggregated list of new articles and you have to read them from the original website. Some lets you share your list of feeds via a public URL.
Personally I prefer to use the browser plug-in FeedBro
There’s no accounts, it doesn’t cost any money, and it also has some organization and filter options. It’s nice because I get a little notification notice on the plugin on my browser so I get easy notifications for when the blogs and webcomics I follow update, without having to open a specific program or log into anything.
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Seconding Feedbro! The notifications easily viewable in my browser are what really keeps me using it. Super convenient, especially for keeping up with current forum discussions as they happen.
It’s Reeder “Classic” all the way for me, too.
On the one hand, the app really does feel complete. On the other, it seems obvious that it’s being sunset in favour of the new “vision” for what Reeder should be. Hopefully kicking down the can for a few years or maybe ten is a viable strategy for dealing with it. Every other reader I’ve tried feels like a “low resolution” option compared to Reeder.
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I set up a subdomain on one of my sites to experiment with a self-hosted RSS, only to find that the best options are meant to run in docker or require root access. I’m still looking but it does seem like development has moved away from web applications I can run from a basic webserver.
I feel like the trend in RSS readers is towards a client/server, like FreshRSS and Miniflux (just to name two from this thread that I happen to have tried), where you register your subscriptions in the server’s database and it pings for updates and keeps track of which articles you have read.
This is more complex than my needs: Literally, all I want to do is maintain (by hand) a list of websites like urls.txt and have the reader pull down all the feeds with RSS autodiscovery and give me a list of the 100 most recent post URLs. I don’t care about tracking read/unread (I can do that with my brain) or starring articles (I have browser bookmarks for that).
Does such a thing exist?
Newsboat comes close, but it only works on PC (not mobile), and I want to be able to store urls.txt in my Nextcloud.
I use CommaFeed and host it on PikaPods. I find its lack of features and simpler look preferable to FreshRSS which I have used in the past.
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I use Feedgrab which I built for fun last year. It’s super-simple, but that’s what I wanted. I started adding some discovery features but they’re a little half-baked. It’s currently free, not sure if/how to monetize it! 
I personally just use QuiteRSS, its a really simple and standalone reader, and it also has a nice tray mode that makes it really easy to check for news without having the window open constantly.
Sorry for the late reply. But Fluent does this.
(Technically it’s an OPML file not a TXT but close enough)
No mobile app, unfortunately, and maintaining an OPML file by hand is a bit painful.
I have adopted freshRSS despite my hesitations.
I’ve been using a combination of Feedbin and Reeder on various platforms for several years now. And like other people here, I will be staying on Reeder Classic for as long as possible. One feature of Feedbin that I really like is that it gives me an email address for newsletters. I’d much rather read my newsletters in my dedicated reader, rather than in my email inbox.
I use Feedly too. I started using it back when it first came out, after the death of Google Reader (RIP) so when I was looking for an RSS reader again I just defaulted to it. I wish their free version allowed me to create more folders, but that’s the only issue I’ve had with it so far.
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I use self-hosted FreshRSS, usually with the NetNewsWire client.
Back when Google Reader was dying, I tried to do the thing that Feedly promised to transfer my Google Reader subscriptions, but it didn’t work and I lost them(I thought it had transferred). There are some blogs that I can’t remember what they were called that I still think about. What was that site? I wonder what happened to that person. sigh.
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The same thing happened to me, and it really turned me off Feedly. 
Currently I use Tidings, which is a Sailfish OS native app. I wish it were not, as it is the best RSS reader I’ve used since Google Reader, but I can’t recommend it because I don’t know anyone else who uses Sailfish!
NetNewsWire. No extra features. No need to pay for another SaaS. I highly recommend it.
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Sorry for the necropost, but I just noticed this and also noticed that you had tried hand-written OPML and found it painful.
If you’re already running newsboat, you could use newsboat --export-to-opml to export your subscriptions as a XML file, upload that, and then use a different feed reader on your phone that can import OPML files.