Reader
The reader gathers the articles of the sites you follow, with no advertising and no imposed ranking.
Following sites
- Subscribe with the address of a site or feed: RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, Atom, JSON Feed and YouTube channels are detected automatically.
- Tolerant reading of imperfect feeds: unusual dates, encodings, HTML entities.
- Folders, custom titles and unread counts.
- Background refresh, which avoids downloading what has not changed and spaces out attempts after a failure.
- A Failing feeds page to retry or change the address, with automatic disabling after a configurable delay.
Reading
- Three layouts: List (excerpt and thumbnail), Titles only or Cards, per user, per folder or per feed.
- Full article: the readable version of a truncated article, on demand or automatically for a feed.
- Podcasts and videos played inside Peristyle. YouTube is only contacted when you click a video.
- Read or unread, starred articles, “mark all as read” and complete keyboard reading.
- Links to other sites open in a new tab, or in the same one if you prefer.
Importing and keeping
- OPML import in the background, with a preview to choose feeds per folder, and export whole or per folder.
- Old articles are deleted after a configurable time. Starred articles are always kept.
Bookmarks
A bookmark keeps a link for later, with what you need to find it again.
- Add by address: title, description, image and icon are read from the page and kept on your instance.
- Nested collections, tags, favorites and notes.
- Save straight from a reader article, with a warning if the link is already saved.
- Bulk operations: select, move, tag, mark as favorite, delete, archive. Drag and drop to a collection.
- Regular link checks, weekly by default, and a Broken links view.
- Import from Firefox, Chrome and Edge (HTML), Raindrop and Pocket (HTML or CSV), with a preview. Export as HTML or CSV, whole or per collection.
Archives
An archive keeps a full copy of the page, readable even if the original disappears.
- A readable version and the original HTML, stored on your disks.
- Created from an address, a reader article or a bookmark.
- Downloaded in the background, and resumed after a restart.
- Collections, tags, favorites and notes of their own.
- A quota per account, 1,024 MB by default, configurable or unlimited.
Search
One full-text search goes through the three spaces. It ignores accents, recognises the forms of a French word and ranks results by relevance, with the matching passages highlighted.
- All the words you type are required.
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Accounts and administration
One instance is shared between several accounts, a family or a small team. Everyone keeps their own reading, bookmarks and archives.
- Local accounts: no outside identity provider. The first account administers the instance.
- Open or closed registration, and single-use invitations.
- A feed followed by several accounts is downloaded only once.
- Dashboard, account management, server settings, e-mail, extensions and space used, per category and per user.
- Optional e-mail for forgotten passwords, address confirmation and invitations, written in the recipient’s language.
- API tokens, one per client, revocable at any time.
Privacy and security
- No third-party service: fonts, icons and scripts are served by your instance, with no analytics.
- Image proxy, on by default: the original sites do not see readers’ IP addresses.
- HTML from outside is cleaned before it is stored, and a strict security policy forbids inline scripts.
- Feeds on the local network are blocked by default.
- Every query is filtered by user: nobody sees what they do not follow.
Customisation
- Languages: French and English, and others by dropping a file, without rebuilding the image.
- Themes: system, light, dark, or an installed theme, chosen by each user.
- Extensions: podcasts, automatic full article, YouTube videos, slideshow for gallery pages. A dropped extension only loads with an administrator’s approval.
Help
- This website is served by every instance, without Internet access, and always matches its version.
- The Help entry in the sidebar, the ? key for shortcuts and help buttons on the pages that need them.
- A welcome card for new accounts, and the What’s new page with each version.