It's time to head back to RSS?

Re:It's time to head back to RSS? by djhworld on Saturday March 31, 2018 @05:10AM (#16722481)

This is my biggest gripe with RSS. Not the fault of the protocol, just the user experience.

I mostly consume my feeds on the London Underground, so offline reading is perfect for that, but I tend to have to scroll through articles that are truncated because there's no point in reading them.

You could argue that the infrastructure of the tube network is the problem, not the state of the modern web, but still, it sucks.

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Re:It's time to head back to RSS? by mwagstaff on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:01AM (#16722633)

You can get RSS apps that will download the full articles for offline reading, including images.

I use Newsify with my Feedly account on the iPhone, and it’s perfect. Android clients are also available (sorry, can’t remember names).

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Re:It's time to head back to RSS? by robk on Saturday March 31, 2018 @05:30AM (#16722534)

I had to write a Huginn agent that crawls my RSS and creates a private feed that then subsequently downloads the entire article, which I then can pump back into my reader. Sigh.

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Re:It's time to head back to RSS? by djhworld on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:45AM (#16722736)

What are you using to download the entire article and parse it into a suitable format?

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