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Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Is there a current and well functioning tool that pulls full articles from the links inside most RSS feeds that only publish teasers?

When I first discovered RSS for me, I wanted news to read on the road. It was before Smartphones became ubiquitous. Unfortunately most news sites only published a few lines of text per article.

Now, I would like to do the same when there is no network coverage. But I still don't know a good tool for that...

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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As much as I pine for the days when RSS was ubiquitous, I trust them to have the access logs to conclude that nobody is using their RSS feed.

Too true, these days the audience is people typing google into the browser omni bar.

Plus "we couldn't figure out how to monetize RSS"

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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As much as I pine for the days when RSS was ubiquitous, I trust them to have the access logs to conclude that nobody is using their RSS feed.

You would trust the web developer of this unnamed NGO you heard about 3rd or 4th hand to do what now?

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Seems slightly ironic that the hashtag #RSSaintdead hasn't been used since 2015

Is it? The idea of RSS was to escape complicated, centralizing, proprietary platforms like twitter. In order to read the post in this discussion's twitter link I'd have to execute their code on my machine. There's no way to access twitter via text. I certainly hope that most RSS users are shying away from such a terrible platform.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Is there a current and well functioning tool that pulls full articles from the links inside most RSS feeds that only publish teasers? When I first discovered RSS for me, I wanted news to read on the road. It was before Smartphones became ubiquitous. Unfortunately most news sites only published a few lines of text per article. Now, I would like to do the same when there is no network coverage. But I still don't know a…

Yup, Inoreader.

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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I wish that government entities used it, or at least released a changelog for certain pages. Following coronavirus guideline updates in Berlin has been very difficult. For now I use Wachete to achieve this.

This is one of those things where I would have expected the opposite in your country vs the US, my country. Here pretty much everything important has an RSS feed. The Internal Revenue Service, Health and Human Services, even my local news.

The Berlin government is not good at digital services.

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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I wish that government entities used it, or at least released a changelog for certain pages. Following coronavirus guideline updates in Berlin has been very difficult. For now I use Wachete to achieve this.

This is one of those things where I would have expected the opposite in your country vs the US, my country. Here pretty much everything important has an RSS feed. The Internal Revenue Service, Health and Human Services, even my local news.

The town I live in publishes their updates via their Facebook page. :|

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Is there a current and well functioning tool that pulls full articles from the links inside most RSS feeds that only publish teasers? When I first discovered RSS for me, I wanted news to read on the road. It was before Smartphones became ubiquitous. Unfortunately most news sites only published a few lines of text per article. Now, I would like to do the same when there is no network coverage. But I still don't know a…

The premium version of Unread[1], an iOS and iPad OS feed reader has this feature. It's also a generally beautiful reading experience.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unread-an-rss-reader/id1363637...

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