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multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

Is fossar/selfoss beginner-friendly?

The maintainers of fossar/selfoss usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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Indexed issues
157
Avg merge
8h 48m
Merged PRs (30d)
8
Dominant language
HTML
License
GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Sep 12, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
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  • boot_error doesn't log the error/message
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    fossar/selfoss#1639 ·

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  • Mobile gestures
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1618 · 2 comments ·

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  • Allow customizing shortcuts
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1611 · 7 comments ·

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  • More filters example for selfoss ?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    question

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    fossar/selfoss#1576 · 3 comments ·

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  • Periodic server status sync
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug needs research

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1553 · 1 comment ·

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  • Decoding Failure
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    fossar/selfoss#1552 · 3 comments ·

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  • Large number of TypeScript errors in strict mode
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    • Is something wrong?
    bug javascript up for grabs

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1545 ·

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  • Base URL path incorrectly set behind reverse proxy
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    fossar/selfoss#1525 · 2 comments ·

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  • More "Share To" destinations
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1524 · 2 comments ·

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  • Accept more delimiters for filters
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    feature request

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1514 · 1 comment ·

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  • is digest authentication supposed to work?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1486 · 1 comment ·

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  • Up-to-date nginx config example using subfolder?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1484 · 1 comment ·

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  • Atom Over XMPP: XMPP (RFC 6120), PubSub (XEP-0060) and Atom (RFC 4287)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1483 · 14 comments · 2 reactions ·

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  • Meta Graph API v12.0?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    spouts

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    fossar/selfoss#1477 · 1 comment ·

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  • OPML import failed
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug not selfoss

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1475 · 2 comments ·

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  • YouTube feed discovery broken
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    misconfigured site spouts

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    fossar/selfoss#1468 · 1 comment ·

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  • Too big icons on mobile phones
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    regression

    fossar/selfoss#1467 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Higher loglevel for authentication errors
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    fossar/selfoss#1463 · 2 comments ·

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  • Rss feed
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    fossar/selfoss#1462 · 1 comment ·

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  • The More button sometimes appears by mistake
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1456 · 1 comment ·

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  • Mark as read behavior with unread filter
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1455 · 1 comment ·

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  • Item's date as a future date
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    fossar/selfoss#1452 · 4 comments ·

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  • Custom spout not displayed in drop down menu
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1450 · 2 comments ·

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  • Personalize source icon
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1448 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Incorrect publishing times
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1447 · 12 comments ·

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  • Deduplicate items across sources
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1444 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • how to set the proxy
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    question

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 15/100

    fossar/selfoss#1435 · 1 comment ·

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  • Cliupdate times out on cleaning thumbnails
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1434 ·

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  • upstream timed out
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1427 · 3 comments ·

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  • [Feature Request] Configurable Update Frequency/Cache per feed
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1419 · 4 comments ·

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  • Open Link instead of expand the Item?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement feature request

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1411 · 6 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Quick and Dirty Dark Theme
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    fossar/selfoss#1408 · 2 comments ·

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  • Refresh keyboard shortcut issues in 2.19
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug regression

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1405 · 7 comments ·

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  • Authentication with multiple instances on the same server
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug javascript

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1404 · 9 comments ·

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  • Troubles implementing mysql backend
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug needs research

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1399 · 6 comments ·

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  • Authelia as a frontend authentication
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1397 · 3 comments ·

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  • Feature request: Disable/hide offline mode
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    ui

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1393 · 4 comments ·

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  • Missing translation for error message
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    fossar/selfoss#1387 · 1 comment ·

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  • Warning when marking all items read
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1386 · 1 comment ·

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  • Sources icon difficult to decypher
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    ui

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    fossar/selfoss#1381 · 4 comments ·

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  • Web client allows to “sign in” when authentication is disabled
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    fossar/selfoss#1380 ·

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  • Unable to get passowrd hash value
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    question

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1379 · 3 comments ·

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  • sources api inconsistency
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    api documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    fossar/selfoss#1378 · 1 comment ·

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  • api Sources error documentation
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    api documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    fossar/selfoss#1377 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add a dark theme
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement up for grabs ux

    fossar/selfoss#1376 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add a tutorial to the documentation for how to create custom share options
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    • Is something wrong?
    documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

    fossar/selfoss#1375 · 2 comments ·

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  • Add the version number to the "add sources" page
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    fossar/selfoss#1374 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Fix "offline is very buggy"
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1370 · 2 comments ·

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  • Create a demo website
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    fossar/selfoss#1364 · 1 comment ·

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  • /update specs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    api documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    fossar/selfoss#1357 · 2 comments ·

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