I work on a project to transform partial feeds into full-text versions. The idea is you give it the partial feeds URL and subscribe to the feed URL it generates: https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/
This seems expensive to do for the host. Maybe specifically snapshotting pages for "Read it later" purposes but I can't imagine having to load up every web-page from every site you follow whether you're going to read it or not.
Re:RIP Google Reader
by twobitshifter on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:05PM
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When you see just a blurb, you can click the paper/text icon to read the whole article. NetNewsWire downloads the feed and you don’t have to exit the app and load the full page. This works for me on kinja sites which have the read more link.
I just opened up NetNewsWire and, yup, 99% of my subscriptions are a few sentences and then a "Read more" link which kinda defeats some of the major upsides of an RSS reader. I don't just want a notification service, I want to completely cache the content locally so that I don't need to depend on an internet connection nor the fragility of the web.