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Gregarius : Server Side Feed Reader

I’ve spent the last week casually hunting around for alternate feed readers. I’ve been using Google Reader for some time now. but I’ve been growing tired of it. Desktop clients just don’t quite cut it for me as, just at work, I’m regularly between three different machines. I think I’ve found one that I like! It’s small, simple to install and configure and Free Software. Gregarius. Gregarius has been in development for a number of years now, although has recently slowed down. I’d like to see things pick up again but, as usual in the Free Software world, that usually requires a community of users. It currently has a fairly thorough wiki, forum, devlog (blog) and a list of features and configuration options. The main reasons I like it are: Lightweight and responsive Very configurable. Includes plugins and themes. Simple feed management (categories, tags, etc) Very clean default theme Detailed search options more… For those that might be interested in trying out a server-side feed reader I thought I might outline some of the steps toward installing it. Read more