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Hey Wired, maybe RSS would be more popular if media outlets like you would put more in your RSS feeds than a title and single sentence for each article.

But I get it. You need ads to make money, and just putting ads in your RSS feed is not enough because they're not "interactive" enough, or something. You need those "engagement" metrics that you generate by making readers press a button to read the full article.

I was trying and fell short of something witty to say. Just, wow, this is a sorry state of affairs. Just give me the damn content and I'll be on my merry way.

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I was trying and fell short of something witty to say.

But you're right. I use feedly and have chrome extensions that's give me full articles in a readable fashion.

I would LOVE to visit some of my favorite sites and read articles as the site designers meant for them to be read. But all of the js and ad fuckery makes reading articles online an absolute goddamn chore lately.

So here we are.

RSS revival? Bring it on. I'll play drums.

Inoreader.com has a feature that loads the whole page in-app (and possibly even 'readabilitized' it). I'm sure other feed readers do it too though.

TinyTinyRSS lets you use xpath to specify which element on the linked page is the “real” content. It was a life-saver when dealing with snippet-only feeds.

Ohh I didn't know of this, thanks for the recommendation will definitely check it out.

BTW, you'll need the feediron plugin for the functionality I was talking about.

We have a service that can convert partial feeds to full-text for a lot of sites. If you're curious, you can try it here http://fivefilters.org/content-only/ and code for a slightly older version here https://bitbucket.org/fivefilters/full-text-rss

Hi, just wanted to say I frequently use your "push to kindle" feature to read articles on my kindle and it's really great, thank you !

same here, thanks for "push to kindle" feature guys!

This seems like a very weird model.

You charge for a hosted service. You also charge for a self-hosted tool. But you also offer an older (read: crappier) version of the same thing under AGPL.

I like the sound of the product, but there are too many red flags there.

I think paying ars technica readers get full articles in their rss.

Edit: and no tracking.

Also, I think it might be tiered and not all benefits apply at the lowest tier but all of them should be reasonably priced for anyone in tech.

This is my biggest gripe with RSS. Not the fault of the protocol, just the user experience.

I mostly consume my feeds on the London Underground, so offline reading is perfect for that, but I tend to have to scroll through articles that are truncated because there's no point in reading them.

You could argue that the infrastructure of the tube network is the problem, not the state of the modern web, but still, it sucks.

I had to write a Huginn agent that crawls my RSS and creates a private feed that then subsequently downloads the entire article, which I then can pump back into my reader. Sigh.

What are you using to download the entire article and parse it into a suitable format?

You can get RSS apps that will download the full articles for offline reading, including images.

I use Newsify with my Feedly account on the iPhone, and it’s perfect. Android clients are also available (sorry, can’t remember names).

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