To add an RSS feed, follow the following steps:
1: install and open Fluent Reader. You can find the software on its Github page:
See [How to Download from GitHub] for details.
2: click on the cog icon on the main window's titlebar. This will display a dialog for you to manage your settings, which has multiple tabs, and the first tab active by default is the "Sources" tab.
3: get a URL for a RSS feed. Fluent Reader doesn't support RSS Autodiscovery, so a URL of a webpage won't work with it. It must be the URL of the RSS feed (which typically ends in /rss or .rss).
See [How to Find the RSS Feed URL of a Website] for details.
4: type the URL into the text box.
Problem!: Fluent Reader says "Invalid URL" in red text when I type the URL: You must include the scheme in the URL (e.g. https://nasa.tumblr.com/rss). If you use a URL without a scheme (e.g. nasa.tumblr.com/rss) Fluent Reader will show you this error
5: click Add.
Problem!: Fluent Reader shows an error dialog that reads "An error has occurred when adding the source. Error: An error has occurred when parsing the XML feed": You must use a URL of an RSS feed (e.g. https://nasa.tumblr.com/rss. If you give it a URL of a webpage (e.g. https://nasa.tumblr.com/), it will give you this error.
6: press the left arrow button on the top-left corner of the dialog to return to the normal view.
You should now be seeing posts from the RSS feed you subscribed to.
Observations
On Github, Fluent Reader's last source code change was from over a year ago, so it's possible that the issues it currently has (like not supporting scheme-less URLs, or RSS Autodiscovery) will never be fixed unless a different developer decides to take over the project and fork it.
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