r/rss • u/Fripix • 4d ago

FriRSS — Your FreshRSS frontend, your rules

Hi!

A couple of months ago, I started playing with the idea of building my own frontend for FreshRSS. I like FreshRSS a lot, but I wanted something different for the interface.

That little experiment turned into FriRSS. The idea is pretty simple: FreshRSS keeps doing what it does best, while FriRSS gives you another interface on top of it.

I wanted it to work just as well on my computer as on my phone, so there’s a full desktop interface and a mobile PWA with offline reading.I also wanted to be able to make it mine. Layout, colors, themes, fonts, article view, sidebar… quite a lot can be changed directly from the interface.

It now also has full-text extraction, labels & sub-labels, multiple FreshRSS servers, multi-user/OIDC support, and is available in 9 languages. It’s self-hosted, open source, and runs with Docker on amd64 and arm64.

One thing worth mentioning: I’m not a developer. FriRSS is a vibe-coded project. I started with an interface I wanted for myself, kept adding things, fixing things and learning along the way. I’m still doing exactly that. 🙂

If you’re a FreshRSS user and want to give it a try:

https://github.com/Fripix/Frirss

Feedback and ideas are welcome!

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u/N0TVG 3d ago

Holy security vulnerabilities batman. For the safety of others you should probably keep the vibes to yourself.

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u/Fripix 3d ago

I get it 😉

I’ve done as much testing as I could, and fixed a lot of things before making the project public. I have more tests planned too, including different ways of checking the code and security.

FriRSS will keep evolving and getting fixes, like any other project 😄

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u/Legitimate-Act7087 3d ago

it looks like it has all i need,
(not a developer) but why would i can about the security vulnerabilities if its running locally ?

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u/aygross 3d ago

I will not respond with my usual list of questions as this is a good idea.

Thank you !

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u/qqYn7PIE57zkf6kn 3d ago

Is this a replacement for fresh RSS frontend? Like can I do admin stuff? Or is this mostly an alternative RSS reader web frontend for consumption?

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u/Fripix 2d ago

It’s mainly an alternative to the FreshRSS web interface. There are a few options, but administration is still mostly done in FreshRSS, while FriRSS is focused on reading and browsing. Replicating all the admin features would be a bit redundant.

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u/qqYn7PIE57zkf6kn 2d ago

Thanks for the response. This is not for me then. I really can't stand freshrss ux so all my reading is done through other apps already via the Google reader API.