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Comment by packet_nerd | Hacker News Reader

I've tried to use RSS before, but the big hangup for me is most sites don't put the full article in the feed, just a title and summary. To me having to go back and forth just kills the whole thing.

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Feedbro Reader has built-in partial->full article conversion engine that lets you get full articles within the reader (must be enabled per-feed basis in Properties). Check it out at https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

> the big hangup for me is most sites don't put the full article in the feed'

If you're using Android, check out gReader Pro. You can have it automatically download and store the full articles for later reading.

I also run my own RSS aggregator, tt-rss (this is how I replaced Google News after Google ruined it). tt-rss has a plugin that will also download and store the full articles for later reading. It provides its own RSS feed as well as a web interface.

How many times a day do you visually rescan over the same stuff? The minimal time spent going back and forth (alt+tab) is nothing compared to the time saved never having to reconsider the same headline more than once.

I don't get your point. If two sources post an article about the same event, I am going to get the "similar" title twice.

If they go to the same url, any decent reader will recognize it as already marked read. But that's not what I meant. Most news sites have much of the same stuff on the front page for hours, sometimes days. How many times do you skim over that looking for new stuff?

Oh. That is actually quite annoying. Have been wanting to get my rss setup of quite sometime, but couldn't get the motivation.

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