Re:RSS is still pretty great
by ho4 on Sunday February 11, 2024 @07:23PM
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RSS is great and I can't imagine what my life would've been if I were to scan the news feeds on each individual site that I have included in my RSS feed. However, the text rendering feature is rather useless for the resources that are greedy for views, clicks and other analytics, as they simply truncate the body of the article, leaving you no choice but to open the original url to read the rest of it. For my use case in particular, a full title is enough, but I was rather bummed initially that the promised "read all articles rendered in the same style with no distractions that existed on the original website" never worked out.
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>leaving you no choice but to open the original url
This is auto-unsubscribe territory for me.
Re:RSS is still pretty great
by adhamsalama on Monday February 12, 2024 @01:58AM
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Some RSS readers have the ability to scrap the article in that case.
> as they simply truncate the body of the article, leaving you no choice but to open the original url to read the rest of it
Inoreader has a 'Load Full Content' button above every (shortened) feed item. It retrieves the original in full & displays it in clear text (no ads and little html formatting).
I discovered the button by accidently clicking it - it's an unintuitive steaming coffee cup.
bazqux is similar! They have a depiction of a couch prominently in the toolbar, and zero describing text. And also no documentation. I needed to open the site on the desktop to get an indication for that (as a hover text).
I like the iOS client Unread for this. You can set it feed by feed to either display the feed content as-is or have it parse each article reader-mode slash Instapaper style and show that instead of the feed text
I imagine others do this too, keep an eye out for it as a feature! Very handy :)