I "built" my own RSS reader app

I've been using RSS readers for close to 20 years. It's the only way I consume any writing these days. If there is no RSS feed for a website, it might as well not exist. If there is, and the topic is interesting to me, there is a high chance I have it in my list. There are, after all, around 1300 websites I subscribe to. Since moving to Linux and Android and setting up my own home server, I have been using a self-hosted instance of FreshRSS for all my needs. But holy shit, that thing is ugly. So I "built"1 one. Originally, I wanted to build a theme for FreshRSS, but realized that what I wanted to achieve was not really doable. It was like putting lipstick on a pig. You could change some colors, but not the layout. So instead, I built a frontend that uses FreshRSS as the backend. It's called Paper2. I've been using it for a few months now. Scrolling through all my articles is what I do each morning with a coffee. It has a bunch of cool features: Paper groups related reporting into…

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