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bystander

An RSS reader with no unread count

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About bystander

bystander fetches your feeds on a schedule and composes a front page from them: a fixed set of articles in fixed positions, laid out like a newspaper. When the next page is made, the previous one is gone for good.

You can keep more than one. A daily page of everything, a finance page that turns hourly, a long read for the weekend, each drawing from the feeds you choose on a schedule of its own.

Nothing accumulates and nothing is owed. A feed that publishes forty items a day contributes the same handful as one that publishes two, and there's no count of what you missed, because bystander doesn't keep it. You get a page, you read what interests you, and tomorrow there's a different one.

Run it

Shell
docker run -d --name bystander \
  -e BYSTANDER_PUBLIC_URL=https://read.example.com \
  -v bystander-data:/data \
  -p 8080:80 \
  ghcr.io/reeywhaar/bystander:latest

Configuration, backups and the rest are in the README.

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