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Lectura
A deliberately old-school, server-rendered RSS reader website: a chronological list of titles that link out to the original sites, with no reading history kept.
lectura.info/Active
Show HN 2026-10-21; site live 2026-10-26 with articles dated that day. (checked 2026-10-25)
In RSS readers
Where it stands apart
- Do you need an account to use it? optional account (21% of 19 others)
- Is reading private, or shared with other readers? some sharing (public lists, public subscriptions, or share links) (21% of 19 others)
- Where do you mainly read the article itself? on the original site (it links out) (11% of 19 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (95% of 19 others)
- How is the main thing licensed? proprietary or closed source (58% of 19 others)
- Who is it for? non-developers (79% of 19 others)
- How does it mainly sync your reading between devices or apps? its own account, or the platform's cloud (iCloud, Chrome sync) (68% of 19 others)
- Where do you mainly use it? website or web app run by the maker (53% of 19 others)
- What does a regular reader pay? nothing, and no ads (50% of 18 others)
- Does the maker collect analytics on how you read? no, it says it collects none (50% of 18 others)
Not documented
The public sources we read don't say:
- Can you move your subscriptions in and out with OPML?
Nearest neighbors
- BoredReading 73% of 15 shared answers match
- RSScal 73% of 15 shared answers match
- Cutthroat News 67% of 15 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | proprietary or closed source No source link; built with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf per the about page. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | individual side project, no revenue Maker pays for a $20/month server himself; about page: 'nothing to buy, no premium tier'. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | no, it needs the maker's servers Hosted only; the maker self-hosted it originally but the code is not published. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | stands apart optional account Guests can browse curated blogs; your own subscriptions need an alias and password, no email. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | non-developers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed RSS and Atom via ROME. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What does a reader put into it? | feeds or sites to follow | source 2026-10-26 |
| What decides which items you see first? | newest first (chronological) 'Your feed contains the sources you subscribe to, in chronological order.' Also Random and Quiet Sources views. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What's the most AI does to what you read? (pick the first that applies) | no AI No AI mentioned; 'No algorithm fills your personal feed'. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it mainly sync your reading between devices or apps? | its own account, or the platform's cloud (iCloud, Chrome sync) Server-side account; read state is not stored at all (the browser's visited-link color is used). | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can you move your subscriptions in and out with OPML? | Not documented The about page mentions 'import progress' but does not name OPML. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you mainly use it? | website or web app run by the maker 'Lectura is a website, not an app.' | source 2026-10-26 |
| What does a regular reader pay? | nothing, and no ads 'You will not see ads... nothing to buy, no premium tier.' | source 2026-10-26 |
| Is reading private, or shared with other readers? | stands apart some sharing (public lists, public subscriptions, or share links) Each reader's subscriptions are public under an alias; no messaging or following: 'Lectura is not a social network.' | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does the maker collect analytics on how you read? | no, it says it collects none Keeps no read history, no email; one last-visit timestamp. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you mainly read the article itself? | stands apart on the original site (it links out) 'Titles open the original site.' | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- Hacker News · news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180704 · collected 2026-10-26
- Web page · lectura.info/ · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · lectura.info/about?lang=en · collected 2026-10-26
- Web page · lectura.info/privacy?lang=en · collected 2026-10-26
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