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I really want to like RSS but almost every from a commercial outlet serves “stubs” instead of full articles, I.e. to read the full thing you have to click throu
by asymmetric 9y ago
I really want to like RSS but almost every from a commercial outlet serves “stubs” instead of full articles, I.e. to read the full thing you have to click through and land on their website (for ad-serving purposes I imagine)
I had found a solution in fulltextrssfeeds.com, but it was slow, cumbersome and didn’t always work.
How do you folks solve this?
- oneeyedpigeon 9y agoPersonally, I just avoid such feeds. I’ve never found this problem with any high quality blogs I follow. The sites I’ve experienced this problem with most are old media companies, and they produce so much content, it’s probably best consumed via other means. It’s a shame more paywall sites don’t make their protected content available via authenticated feeds.
- beefield 9y agoI have not had time to figure out how this works, but in inoreader mobile app, you can pull down in the article stubs and quite often you get the full article downloaded directly in the app. Weirdest is that this seems to work even beyond some paywalls.
- username223 9y agoI don't mind the stubs, since they usually give me enough to know whether or not I want to read the whole article. For most sites that serve stubs, I only want to read a handful of what they publish.
- hasbot 9y agoInterestingly, many readers of /r/politics never read more than the headline anyways.
- fiddlerwoaroof 9y agott-rss has a plug-in that lets you specify which part of the linked article is the actual content and then, when it pulls the feed, it replaces the feed content with the text of the specified element.