If you're reading this because Netvibes stopped working, here's why: Dassault Systèmes retired Netvibes.com as a standalone personal dashboard on June 2, 2025, and pointed the domain at its enterprise business-intelligence product instead. There's no personal Netvibes reader left to export from — so this guide covers the two situations you might actually be in. About 5 minutes either way — you'll need your tribb login, and an old OPML file if you saved one.

Gotcha: If you never backed up your Netvibes dashboard before the June 2025 cutoff, that data is gone — Dassault Systèmes deleted personal account data after retirement, in line with its privacy policy. There's no export screen left to go back to.

Steps

  1. Check whether you already have an OPML file. Netvibes offered a one-time backup at Account → Backup Data before the shutdown. If you exported one at the time, look for a .opml file in your downloads from around mid-2025 — it's likely named something like netvibes-export.opml.
  2. If you have that file, open Import in tribb. Sign in to tribb and go to the Import page at /import. You'll see a drop zone that reads "drop an .opml file."
  3. Upload the file you saved. Drag the .opml file onto the drop zone, or click it to choose the file from your computer. tribb parses the file, recreates your folders from its structure, and skips any feed you're already subscribed to. When it finishes, you'll see how many feeds were in the file, how many were newly subscribed, and how many you already had.
  4. If you don't have a file, re-add your feeds by hand or find them through search. Without a saved export there's no file to import — add each feed's URL directly in tribb, or search a site you remember reading for its RSS link (most publish one even when it isn't advertised on the page).
  5. Open the reader and start reading. Follow the link to the reader. Your feeds are there and start filling with items over the next poll cycle. From the reader you can open an item to read it, save it for later, dismiss it once you're done, or downrank a source to see less like it.

You're done. Whichever path you took, tribb takes it from here — welcome aboard.

Coming from a reader that's still running? See the Feedly guide or the general OPML import guide for readers not listed here.

FAQ

Why did Netvibes stop working?

Dassault Systèmes, which acquired Netvibes in 2012, retired the consumer dashboard and feed reader at Netvibes.com on June 2, 2025, citing the service's shift toward enterprise dashboard and business-intelligence tools. The domain now redirects to Dassault's corporate site; the personal reader millions of people used isn't coming back.

Is there still a way to export OPML from Netvibes?

No. The backup tool lived at Account → Backup Data on Netvibes.com, and it went away with the rest of the personal service when it retired. If you didn't export before the June 2025 deadline, there's no later export path — the account data itself was deleted afterward.

Does my read/unread state carry over?

Even with a saved OPML file, no. OPML lists feeds and folders, not per-item read history — that's a limit of the format itself, not something Netvibes or tribb chose. Every feed in the file comes across; you start with a clean, unread queue rather than a reconstructed one.

What happens to my old Netvibes folders and widgets?

Folders survive if they were captured in your saved OPML file — tribb reads the folder structure and recreates it, filing each feed under its closest matching folder. Netvibes's other dashboard widgets (weather, to-do lists, embedded apps) were never part of the feed-reading side of the product and have no equivalent to migrate; tribb is a reader, not a customizable start page.

Is tribb free to use?

Adding feeds, reading, and triaging work with a standard tribb account — no separate reader subscription to switch on. tribb is BYOK (bring your own key) for its AI features: the point-of-need summarizing and questioning runs on an AI key you supply, so those costs stay yours and your reading never becomes anyone's training data. Adding feeds and reading don't require a key.

I don't remember all the feeds I followed — what now?

That's normal for an account you haven't touched since 2025. Start with the sources you remember by name, add them in tribb, and let the list grow from there — most people rebuild a working set of a dozen or so feeds faster than they expect to. The general OPML import guide explains how to bring in a file if you find one later.