Comment on Rubenerd: Using Thunderbird for RSS
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 14 hours ago
Just started using it. With zero xp posts an article expecting to matter.
I use Thunderbird too, and have so for years. The RSS implementation sucks. It will randomly crap out and autopause all feeds. The data often corrupts rendering the link folder useless and is very difficult to properly purge as the gui process will often fail. You’ll have to look up instructions and delete the folders manually. Very disappointing, but better than nothing.
I’ve been using open source RSS apps from Fdroid and have yet to find one that doesn’t have glaring bugs. I don’t understand why feed reading is so difficult. Probably that it supports so many forms of media but I’m just a clueless scrub that isn’t posting to blogs.
db2@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
RSS is just a (usually) generated XML file that has URLs and descriptions and such. Technically it can have embedded media including audio and video but I haven’t personally seen that feature used for anything but thumbnails.
I think what you’re seeing in fdroid is feed readers built for one feed the dev wants it for and they don’t actually test it anywhere else.