Upvote RSS
Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Mbin, and more.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1 commit in the last 90 days, latest release v1.8.2 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Feed Readers: Feedly alternatives.
At a glance
Upvote RSS quick facts
- Health score
- 57/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 501
- Last commit
- 8 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.8.2, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Generate rich RSS feeds for popular posts from social aggregation websites Reddit, Lemmy, Hacker News, Lobsters, PieFed, Mbin, and git forge GitHub."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Upvote RSS scores 57/100, #19 of 26 in Feed Readers: 1 commit in the last 90 days earns 1.2 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.8.2, 8 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 501 stars add 10.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 33.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 1.2 / 35
1 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.8.2 released 8 days ago
- Stars 10.8 / 20
501 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 1
- Last 90 days
- 6
- Last 12 months
- 8 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #19 of 26 tools in Feed Readers by health , between Stringer (#18) and Feeds Fun (#20) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker, PHP |
| Latest release | v1.8.2 · 8 days ago |
| Stars | 501 |
| Open issues | 14 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | johnwarne/upvote-rss ↗ |
Upvote RSS vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Upvote RSS (Feed Readers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSSHub | 99 | 47k | MIT | today |
| Glance | 98 | 38k | AGPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| Miniflux | 96 | 9.9k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| TinyFeed | 90 | 387 | MIT | 10 days ago |
| RSS-Bridge | 83 | 9.3k | Unlicense | 2 days ago |
| Upvote RSS (this tool) | 57 | 501 | MIT | 8 days ago |
Upvote RSS: common questions
Is Upvote RSS still maintained?
Upvote RSS had 1 commit in the last 90 days and its last push was 8 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.8.2, is from 8 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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