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Yeah, there's definitely something to say for giving people a choice, so I'm going to keep this in the back of my head. For my system it feels weird to show the

Yeah, there's definitely something to say for giving people a choice, so I'm going to keep this in the back of my head. For my system it feels weird to show the full content. I don't trim the feed description (yet) and sometimes these are very very long, looks awful with the rest of the UI. What I also do is filter out all the markup and even links, I only show some sentences of text basically. It sits wrong with me to make my reader a sort of browser window and display all the markup. Beautifully simple site you have, by the way. And I found I'm already subscribed to your feed. "RSS is not a notification system. It's a distribution system." you say on your site. Was that the purpose of the inventors? I guess I take the freedom to use it slightly different then, we're on Hacker News after all. ;) We can agree to disagree.

dugite-code 3y ago
> there's definitely something to say for giving people a choice This is why I took over the maintaince of the Feediron plugin for the TT-RSS feedreader, I really like having the flexibility to define what content I feel is relevant on a feed by feed basis
manuelmoreale 3y ago
In not sure if it was intended to be a distribution system but it sure is today. Especially because the web and the browser do have built in notification tools we can leverage if what we want to do is send notifications. But I can see why not all situations allow for sending full content via rss. I still believe that IF you can send the full content you should do so.