Some terminal emulators – e.g., kitty – can show images inline. I use `toot` and `tooi` to read the Fediverse in kitty, and the images are there alright.

You don&#x27;t need to stay completely in the terminal interface. I use newsboat. I have configured it such that if I want to open any media links like that, one keystroke opens them in a new firefox window on top of everything. One can also use something like mpv or imagemagick if firefox feels too &quot;heavy.&quot;

I wish more sites added images (in the &lt;enclosure&gt; tag preferably) to their RSS posts. I think images are the perfect middle ground between spicing up pure textbased posts and not being distracting videos on autoplay.With my self-built reader (link in bio) I&#x27;m always delighted to see posts with photos or images attached.

Plug: I made <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ratatui&#x2F;ratatui-image" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ratatui&#x2F;ratatui-image</a> for ratatui projects (like this one), and terminals that support some image protocol. It falls back to some ASCII-art.

I tried to use neomutt a few months ago, and found that all email is now just a mime encoded minefield. too bad, I liked the mutt workflow over having to have a browser opening and checking for stuff.

RSS readers are immensely helpful to also interact with image (such as web comics) and video (Youtube channels) feeds.Alas, a terminal interface is a decisively bad choice for that.

text is king. The rise of LLMs helped reinforce that nicely IMO.

I used to read USENET news in text terminals on X11 systems, and on 3270 terminals before that. It&#x27;s amusing how we&#x27;re coming full circle.

No plans for that yet. Feedr is currently standalone-only.

Will it also have client functionality to support reader like miniflux or tiny tiny rss, like in newsboat?

I say fixed-width characters are a feature, not a bug.

Terminal seems like an odd choice for a platform to read on, considering the fixed-width characters.

TUIs are so nice.Please consider using Trolley to package this for non-technical users:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;weedonandscott&#x2F;trolley" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;weedonandscott&#x2F;trolley</a>

Does it use ffmpeg to render inline images to ASCII?

Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal