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RSS is terrible for reading. If you're lucky the file actually contains some of the text. But multimedia, the full article, or formatting? Forget it. In the gen
by duaneb 10y ago
RSS is terrible for reading. If you're lucky the file actually contains some of the text. But multimedia, the full article, or formatting? Forget it. In the general case it functions as a link aggregator and little more, but it's fantastic at that. The reader doesn't matter at all if there isn't anything to read.
- chishaku 10y agoIs there an RSS reader that fetches the link and displays the article Instapaper-style? What are the copyright issues around this?
- acdha 10y agoNewsblur has a text mode which does that and can be enabled per-site or when you're viewing a story. On the website, you also have the option of the classic load-in-an-iframe mode which is good if you want the full site UI but don't want to have to manually poll for new stories.
- redwall_hp 10y agoReeder (iOS) does that and it's great. When you open an item, it shows the feed content, with a prominent button that will snag the page content and run it through a mobilizer service. I think there's an option to make that the default functionality too, though I prefer to attempt reading the RSS data first for speed. It works standalone or can sync with Feedly, Newsblur, or other services.
- rhizome 10y agoI think it's good netiquette to respect the site's RSS content choices. I've been using RSS for a long time now and it's no problem to click through to the actual article.
- myrion 10y agoThunderbird seems to do that for me.
- dublinben 10y agoYou can blame that on publishers for not including the full content of their articles in their RSS feeds. When they do, it works perfectly. Most RSS feeds these days just have a sentence and the URL, if you're lucky.
- Symbiote 10y agoI assume that's because they want page views, to sell adverts. Plenty of feeds I subscribe to have the full article in the feed, but they're either non-profit organizations or personal blogs. Just one example: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/rss.xml http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/rss.xml
- myrion 10y agoIsn't that how it's supposed to be? A short description in the <description> tag of the feed, with the full content not being downloaded until the user wants to go there?