Background

I have been using feedly for years to read rss feeds. It is a great service however it grows more and more complicated and tries hard to sell me their premium features. I understand that they need to make money, but I decided to find a self-host solution for my simplest need: read self selected rss feeds on a clean UI. no AI recommendation, no social sharing, no fancy features. Just a simple rss reader. Then I found this miniflux. It is a very simple as they claimed they are minimalist. Yet they have all the essential features of an rss reader. The best part, It is open sourced and offers docker images for you to deploy freely, they do have a 15$/year paid hosted plan which I think is fair. I deployed one on my private k8s and it works like a charm. I then walked through the code and found it is even more enjoyable to read. I would like to share my using experience and findings here.