rss feed aggregation with Lylina

January 19, 2007 | 2 comments

So, I set out to find an open source RSS aggregator that would allow for a default set of feeds to be available to everyone on the home page, but also allow for multiple users to save, view, and share their own feeds. I also wanted something I could deploy, configure and support easily.

I didn’t find the perfect software package for my needs, but I found something that fit my general philosophy that I could comfortably customize: Lylina, a open source, LAMP based aggregator that supports multiple users, default feeds, searching capabilities and a “river of news” approach to viewing posts by date posted, not by the site to which they belong. This blog post focuses on my installation and configuration of this software, its good points and bad.