It depends on your needs, as with most things. I chose FreshRSS as it allowed me to customize it, to turn it into a YouTube subscription feed. Before I created Youlag, I was using FreshRSS’ official YouTube plugin for this purpose.

I did stumble upon Miniflux while deciding on a RSS reader, but never considered it as it didn’t include thumbnails in the feed view.

Thanks for letting me know, I’d love to get this working for as many people as possible, so please let me know if you got any leads.

That’s odd, and you made sure that video mode for "All pages and categories " is unchecked?

If you’re not on the latest version of FreshRSS, perhaps try updating? During development and testing, I’ve always stayed with the latest version.