The other issue is that a lot of these sites gate the content fed through RSS to make you visit the site for the whole thing (plus, you know, ad impressions).

The other issue is that a lot of these sites gate the content fed through RSS to make you visit the site for the whole thing (plus, you know, ad impressions). RSS works best when the content can be fully digestible in the reader. If you can read most of it there, great--you get a preview. What I hated was when I'd get like a line or two, or couldn't even see an image load in an image-only post without visiting a sloth of a site. Oddly enough, my Reddit homepage is pretty decent now due to pruning subscriptions and using RES.