> As much as I like RSS, one of the repeated pain points is that I'd like to actually read the content in my Feed Reader, but on many of the sites I pull from, the feeds only contain the article title and maybe half of the introductory sentence before dropping a link to the full article, which I then have to click and open in my browser.

This is definitely annoying, but the nice thing about RSS (and ATOM) is that it's machine readable, so post-processors can follow the link (e.g. using wget) and insert the page content into the feed.

Here's a script I use to postprocess BBC news RSS feeds: https://github.com/Warbo/warbo-utilities/blob/master/raw/get...

(Looks complicated, but mostly deals with stipping side bars, navigation menus, etc. from the page, rendering the HTML to plain text, and also includes test cases; the RSS code is mostly copy/pasted from tutorials)