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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
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RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I just wish RSS readers could properly parse the webpages instead of only having the first paragraph and getting cut off

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's actually not the RSS reader's fault. It's the rss feed you import that behaves like that. It's on purpose, to make you go to their website and ingage in their traffic.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is an important criteria for me. If I can't read the full article without leaving the reader and without a WebView, I won't keep the RSS feed.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    This is exactly the case.

    In a lot of CMSes that offer RSS feed generation, there's a setting you can frob - either put the entire article in each RSS entry, or just the first X words in the <summary></summary> block. A lot of them default to the latter and folks never turn on the former.

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