Upvote RSS
Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Mbin, and more.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity more than 4% of tracked projects; popularity more than 23%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 501 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v1.8.1 · 13 Mar 2026 |
| Repo updated | 13 Mar 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Docker, PHP |
Is Upvote RSS actively maintained?
Upvote RSS logged 5 commits over the last 11 months, but none in the most recent quarter. Development has paused rather than stopped outright — worth watching before a production deployment.
The most recent tagged release, v1.8.1, is about 7 months old.
Note that Upvote RSS depends on a third-party service to work fully. It is self-hosted, but not self-contained: if that external service changes its terms or disappears, your instance is affected.
Upvote RSS ranks #21 of 26 tracked feed readers projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Upvote RSS actually does
Upvote RSS aggregates content from platforms like Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, and Mbin to generate structured RSS feeds. It allows you to track discussions and submissions from these community-driven sites directly within your standard feed reader. The software is released under the MIT licence.
Best fit: It is a suitable choice if you want to follow specific discussions or communities across multiple social link-aggregator platforms via a single feed reader interface.
Worth knowing: The project currently shows signs of low development activity, which might mean slower bug fixes and delayed support for upstream API changes on the supported platforms.
Deployment notes
As a Docker-based PHP application, you will typically need to configure persistent volume storage for any local data and place the container behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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Yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator which can be used both as a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.