Welp, I’ve given in on hosting these. Signed up for a premium account at NewsBlur. Each time I’ve updated TTRSS or Wallabag I’ve run into problem. Wallabag is great software, but it doesn’t have search, and it became a deep bucket with a backlog I couldn’t get to, and couldn’t filter easily.
TTRSS is also great, but when things break there is no where to turn. By all accounts the developer hates answering questions about the software, and even directs folks to a thread about the forum community being assholes. That person doesn’t owe me anything, and I’ve thankfully used the software for years, but I’ve had at least a dozen questions over that time that I sat on because I didn’t feel like signing up just to be harassed.
I don’t use apps from the Google Play market, so I was getting the TTRSS client from F-Droid. Not supported. But it only stops working when I update the server code. If I can’t bring that up and discuss it, then I just can’t use the server, either.
NewsBlur does a lot of things, and I will use almost none of them. I just want a server-based feed collector that I can sync an app to and quickly digest information from the channels that interest me. The code is MIT licensed and available. But I won’t ever have to think about that. 