Comment by oauea | Hacker News Reader

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> - every day I deal with broken links and broken images because my feed reader doesn't know from which URL it should resolve relative links

> - lots of posts include iframes, or content that only makes sense with JS enabled

These are the fault of broken RSS feed generators. The RSS feed should contain a textual summary of the article.

> - if I want to follow any link I get kicked back out to a bloated web page

This is working as intended and not an issue. I don't think any alternatives would make sense.

> - there's no pagination mechanism, or way for a client to ask for "all posts since last Friday". If you want your feed to always have all posts available, you need to include the entirety of your archive in every feed response.

Agree that this sucks.

> - XML

Really?

> These are the fault of broken RSS feed generators. The RSS feed should contain a textual summary of the article.

"Should" indeed. But a standard that isn't followed isn't exactly helpful to me.

> This is working as intended and not an issue. I don't think any alternatives would make sense.

Yeah, I agree that an alternative doesn't make sense for RSS in particular, but it's not hard to imagine an only-slightly-more-featureful syndication system where individual feed items are directly addressable.

It's just a shame that I've got this really nice, personalized feed reading interface, and I get pulled out of it every time I follow a link.

>> - every day I deal with broken links and broken images because my feed reader doesn't know from which URL it should resolve relative links

> These are the fault of broken RSS feed generators. The RSS feed should contain a textual summary of the article.

Footnote relative links are quite common in blog posts, and my RSS reader punts me out to a browser to view them. Given that most blogs I follow provide full-text feeds, it's a bit disappointing I can't easily navigate that last (textual) portion of content.

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