Appreciation isn’t the certain source of joy for hobby projects that most users think it ought to be. If you’re intrinsically motivated enough to create something like this, then you’re intrinsically bored by it, too. Appreciation does not necessarily have any bearing on that, no matter that your users hope otherwise, especially in fields like tech where neurodivergence is a local norm. May their departure serve as a beacon for others to leave behind the unrewarding.

The developer of this project makes being a jerk to everyone who talks to him his personal mission. People asking for support are insulted on his forum... pretty routinely.

I use a fork of TTRSS daily, it's good software, but I strongly discourage anyone ever talk to upstream.

NextCloud news did just fine as a replacement.

> What we really need is a way to fetch walled garden and rss content into a maildir, and then our mail clients will do the rest.

Inspired by your comment I tried blending together rss2email, Maildir, notmuch and gnus. While it all "works" the RSS feed content comes through in markdown'ish (?) markup. The flowers are out of the garden but they are all a bit wilted.

Check out forum-dl:

https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl