Stringer
Work-in-progress self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 46% of tracked projects; popularity more than 63%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 4.1k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | 26 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Ruby |
Is Stringer actively maintained?
Stringer is under active development: 229 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 24 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
No tagged releases are published, so there is no stable version to pin to — you would deploy from the default branch or a container image built from it.
Stringer ranks #13 of 26 in Feed Readers, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Stringer actually does
Stringer is a self-hosted RSS reader built with Ruby that provides an alternative to third-party feed aggregation services. It is described as anti-social, meaning it focuses on direct content consumption rather than sharing or community features. As a work-in-progress project distributed under the MIT licence, it allows you to collect and read web feeds on your own infrastructure.
Best fit: This software suits technical users who want a private, self-hosted space for consuming RSS feeds without relying on commercial reader platforms.
Worth knowing: The project lacks tagged releases and has a modest maintenance score, which may indicate that updates are irregular or installation paths are less polished.
Deployment notes
Because it runs on Ruby, you will typically need to provision a persistent database, configure a web and application server stack, and place it behind a reverse proxy for TLS termination.
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