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I remember the moment when I added huggingface blog feed to my reader and realized that this feed has no content in it and links are specified with guid tag. Outside of tech blogs its very common nowadays to stumble upon malformed atom/rss feeds in the wild, some feel unmaintained or abandoned.

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it's a very basic feature for modern RSS readers to detect this and fetch the full article. it's a shame that so many RSS programs treat their inputs as good enough for users.

i'll generalize my japanese reading assistant software for general RSS use soon as a result of pervasive quality problems like this. not to mention abhorrent disrespect for user privacy in most cloud software.

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