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KoalaNews

A privacy-focused RSS reader with accounts, custom feeds, read state, OPML, i18n, local image caching and SQLite persistence.

Overview

KoalaNews has moved from the old Next.js/Prisma stack to a Go service with chi, sqlc and pure-Go SQLite. The static SvelteKit 5 frontend is embedded into the Go binary, while a server-side sync worker fetches RSS feeds, deduplicates articles and serves cached images from the app origin to avoid browser-side hotlinking. The current app includes public feeds, user accounts, per-user feed management, categories, smart feeds, read state, OPML import/export, appearance preferences, admin statistics and GFS backups.

Backstory

I wanted to create a privacy-focused RSS reader and aggregator that allows me to simply open a single page and scroll through all my news feeds in one place without any tracking.

Stack

GoSvelteKitTypeScriptTailwind CSSSQLitesqlcRSSDockerOpen SourceSelf-hostablePrivacy-firstWeb AppEarly