I have a feeling this will be unceremoniously killed and forked into two different projects.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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Janeway did nothing wrong
I'm sad that it took me a second to get it.
*three projects
Don't forget the plant.
And rightly so!
The devs aren't worried about Janeway?
Is the selfhosted version able to also take email newsletters? I hate them and I'm using https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to turn them into RSS, but I wish I had an all in one solution.
Also, is it fully FOSS or is it open core?
AGPL v3. Take that as you may. I'm *open *to changing it. I just wanted to give the project a chance to thrive without someone just hosting it as a paid app and calling it a day. That makes it so that if anyone does want to create a commercial product from this, they would need to offer up the source. My monetization plans only extend to possibly offering an additional plan on the hosted version to help cover hosting costs (which right now are $10 a month and I am covering that, it may become $30 a month if this gets popular).
AGPL works for me. Good to know.
I just avoid using "source available" and software that has artificially paywalled features, the most common paywalled feature is OIDC because most devs seem to think that it's a business only feature.
I pay for Home Assist Cloud, because I want to support them, every feature is available if I wanted to self host it. I freaking love them.
The only exception being Bitwarden, although they have paywalled features in their selfhosted builds I don't know of a better-for-me alternative. I could self-host Vaultwarden, but I pay for their subscription just because I want to support them.
My point is, if it's justified, I'll pay. Otherwise, I'll keep using standalone RSS apps on my devices and just backup my OPML every once in a while.
My problem is finding the feeds lol
Ya. I'm working on that too. And trying to keep in the spirit of not being biased or heavy on algorithms.
My first step - A chrome/firefox extension. This is currently in review on the web store. This exposes RSS feeds on sites you visit to make it easier to subscribe to the places you already visit. This is especially great when you find a great blog on Reddit or Hacker News. https://github.com/TechSquidTV/Tuvix-Tricorder-Extension
Just add sites (by top level domain) that you use to read. You would be surprised how many provide feeds and even more surprised how fast your feed reader gets overwhelmingly filled 😅
But I haven’t found a good site. Most are just your average capitalistic site with flashy keywords and filled with adds and not really talking about anything.
Mmm.. I added several IT news, and regular news sites. National and international.
Sometimes feed offenders like reuters don’t work (without workarounds) but the majority offers their all or topic centric feeds just like that.
RSSHub and RSS-Bridge can handle that. My issue is adding too many websites to my reader.
What’s the difference between this and say FreshRSS?
Same concept, different implementation. FreshRSS is a PHP app, in my opinion.. a little ugly, still super functional of course. I wanted to try to create something with a more modern UX, and try to appeal to not just the tech folks. FreshRSS still supports things I don't yet, like WebSub, but give me some time to catch up. I have the massive benefit of just starting much later when many awesome libraries and AI exist.
I actually started this API in Go, and it was nearly complete before I started over entirely in Node. And I did that so that it could run in serverless environments. You can of course still run this in Docker Compose, but it's actually focused on Cloudflare deployments, where you can run this entirely for free.
For free you say?
When you say AI, do you mean you’re vibe coding this, or like you’re using AI as a learning tool?
FreshRSS doens't give the impression that it's fishing for VC money for one
I'm not interested in money and you can quote me on that. I just care what my shit looks like
The docs look so good. So does the app.
Wait until you try the Win95 theme
Is there a problem with the verification email sending on the public instance at the moment?
Appreciate you letting me know! I just signed up a new dummy account and it seems to have worked. But no one else has gotten an email in the last 2 hours from what I can see. But at the moment its hard to tell if there is an issue or just, no one has signed up in the last two hours. It looks like a need to double check my monitoring setup to see if I can catch this.
Give it another shot, it worked for me just now (same deployment). If you can, have your network tab open and let me know if you see any failures. I'll try to make sure I can see that easier.
same thing after disabling my adblocker just in case (brave-browser)
Sorry this happened, and super appreciate it. I imagine this happened to a bunch of other people. I'm adding better error monitoring around it now to try and figure out why. It's happening in a very narrow area, so I should be able to detect it soon, but I unfortunately don't know how to replicate it. If you don't mind another ping later, I might ask if you can try pressing that resend button again soon.
No problem it happens. Just tried a couple times (the target domain is in .fr)
Good news
- I can see your account and know it was definitely an email issue.
- More monitoring has been added. Hopefully we catch what's happening now
- Several more people have successfully signed up, so it may be unique to this service/email. As a last resort, you could sign up again with a different email and I'm nearly certain it would work.
If you want to try and resend that email, I'm sure it will not work, but I may be able to figure out why
I just tried again a couple more times.
That being said I have my own instance now so I'm a happy user :) - thanks for fixing the issue with the docker deployment so quick (I was the one who raised it)
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Nice - going to try this :)
While I support the idea of using RSS readers to break free from algorithmic and/or AI curated feeds, I've mostly stopped bothering, since all the content that gets into the feeds has become algorithmic, AI slop.
There's just no escaping it these days.
While super fair and accurate, I take this as an opportunity to follow much smaller blogs. When I find a good post on Hacker News or stumble upon someone through my research, I now actively make a point to subscribe to their RSS.
TBH my original motive was to find good sources of content to submit to Hacker News... but all the same.
lol I started to reply, suggesting a recommendation feature to help find non-algorithmic tech feeds but then realized that's exactly how all this started.
😆 . It's a real problem though. So is prioritization. Algorithms aren't bad, dark patterns are. The main issue with any algorithm, even if fully open, it, by definition, has to be biased in some way. I'm going to save this problem for much further down the road, but for discovery, I took the first step on that.
Tricorder! https://github.com/TechSquidTV/Tuvix-Tricorder-Extension
I broke out the package that does the feed discovery in tuvix and publish it separately. Now you can use it as a chrome plugin to add a subscribe page to any website. It is currently pending review on the Chrome web store. I haven't yet submitted to Firefox or others.
I guess getting a flip phone and stick to an eBook reader would be a good solution
The project looks nice and RSS Aggregators are the way to go.
I switched to a file based (cloud storage) syncing app like News Explorer a while ago. Sometimes less infrastructure involved is a blessing.
Can we get a few screenshots or a demo acc?
Demo account is a good idea. ill work on that. Here's a couple screenshots
FYI, a few typos in "3. Organize with Categories" first paragraph in the getting started tutorial/blog post.
Thank you!
Any plans for OIDC and read-only/non-root/no-cap container running?
OIDC, maybe? I haven't thought about that, but super open to input. I haven't published the containers yet because I want to get to a more secure/optimized spot there first. I'm not actually sure if a read only container is possible? There's SQLite DB writes at a minimum, though that could be externalized. I wouldn't mind getting to that point.
I am loving OIDC giving a single login for all the things I’ve got going, I see it as a near-essential for adding new services!
Read-only is easy! You just need to confine where the writes happen. You use volumes for stuff you want to remember were written and tmpfs for stuff you don’t want to remember. Tmpfs for /tmp if needed, volume for the DB, good to go. It is super useful for security since only what is included in the container can be executed greatly reducing the attack area. No way to introduce a new excutable to the container! (you set noexec for tmpfs/volumes)
I’ve seen difficult setups like a “work directory” where key files, executables, and temp files go. That structure can’t be secured, avoid that. Basically the temp files go in somewhere that’s not a big pile of a “work directory” - like /tmp - and then that structure once again works!
Of course I wouldn’t say no to an LCARS theme either…
We killed it. Good Job Janeway! I'm working on a fix. I thought my last deployment would have fixed it, I'm still looking into it.
Right now you probably notice no new feeds coming in.
tldr; too many RSS feeds, and tbh, it wasn't that many. I'm working on improving it to deal with the serverless limits on Cloudflare. These issues would not exist on Docker Compose.
edit:
- fixed for now! We should be able to support at least 100 users now, and after my future changes it will be essentially unlimited but I will have to think about server costs.