'Good bye tt-rss, rss2email I am coming back!'
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:category: computer
:tags: atompub, OwnCloud
:date: 2011-09-27T12:44:52

Fixed connectivity-problems (no more endless waiting with spinning
activity-wheel)

While getting used to my new Android phone (which will be subject
of another post(s)) I have found in the `f-droid repository`_
application `Tiny Tiny RSS Reader`_, which is a reader
application for `Tiny Tiny RSS Reader
<https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/wikis/home>`__, a RSS
reader as webapp (aka „personal Google Reader”). I have been
suddenly attacked by my periodic feelings of shame for still
using (and preferring) good old email to all those current hip,
web 2.\* AJAX webapps. So, I have installed the program on my
server, added the following to my fcontexts for SELinux, started
``update-daemon`` and run it.::

    /var/www/tt-rss/.*\.php? all files \
       system_u:object_r:httpd_user_script_exec_t:s0

Whole the app worked more or less as advertised, but I have in the end
switched back to my old crusty ``rss2email``. Here are the reasons:

-  First of all that Android didn’t work in the end. Changelog for 1.08
   says it “Fixed connectivity-problems (no more endless waiting with
   spinning activity-wheel)”, but that’s exactly how it looked with 1.08
   for me. I wasn’t able to find any help neither on fora, nor on IRC,
   so no phone app for me. On the other hand, email works just fine on
   the Android, so off-line access to my posts is already available.
-  I finally admitted that Simple HTML in Thunderbird of
   ``rss2email``\ messages (with HTML on in ``rss2email``) is the best
   reading experience out there. I really don’t like all those web apps
   which try to cram all user interface into the webpage, so for reading
   there is only tiny rectangle in the middle with tiny characters.
-  Web interface itself wouldn’t be the problem, but tt-rss contains
   also ``update-daemon`` which is written in PHP and runs constantly.
   It took more CPU and RAM than any of MySQL, apache, zarafa, or
   postfix. Just say NO to PHP daemons (or any scripting language
   daemons for that matter; jury is still out on Java daemons, but
   suspicion remains). I am glad to be back, and sorry ``rss2email``
   that I have doubt you.

.. _f-droid repository:
    https://f-droid.org/repository/
.. _Tiny Tiny RSS Reader:
    https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.ttrssreader