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> In practice, getting fulltext is rare It depends on the use case. One may use RSS just as preview, to decide what to read and what not, rather than use it a
by pizza234 5y ago
> In practice, getting fulltext is rare
It depends on the use case.
One may use RSS just as preview, to decide what to read and what not, rather than use it as replacement of a website.
Using RSS as preview, actually, while it may seem just an irrelevant layer of indirection, can actually prevent excessive consumption :)
- approxim8ion 5y agoSure, but it'd be ideal if clicking on it would load the fulltext rather than jump to my browser and load the source in its full, bloated glory, or at the very least with formatting I can't control.
- CRConrad 5y ago> One may use RSS just as preview, to decide what to read and what not Rather like the HN front page. A similarity underscored by Firefox uses (or at least used last I looked) for RSS feeds.