Fever
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Fever (archived) was a self-hosted, proprietary feed reader that is no longer developed or sold as of 2016-12-24.
- 2016-12-24 : Goodbye Mint, Goodbye Fever (archived from the original)
- There is a backup of the source code: https://github.com/mcaskill/fever
Features
It was a Google Reader-style feed reader written in PHP. It had a one-time fee of $30 and only worked on a single domain due to built-in DRM. It had some interesting "sparks and trends" features which de-duped articles in order to create a "fever" view of links that many articles link to.
The FeverAPI (archived) was still used in many feed readers as a sync endpoint until ????-??-??. It was available as an option in Unread on iOS, ReadKit on macOS and Reeder on Mac and iOS, for example.
For use as a syncing backend, Fever is supported in some self-hosted RSS readers/aggregators like Miniflux, stringer, RssMonster, and as a plugin for Tiny Tiny RSS. This allows the user to avail of the fever-api reading capability of the above apps.
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Past
Bret Comnes - I used to run fever until malformed feeds hosed the backend DB. It has a single developer, has a non-open source license, contains many bugs and never gets updated. Do not recommend especially with all the other options these days.