alt Hacker NewsThis is a nice overview but is also obviously content marketing for Lighthouse, which, fine.
I use Feedly, and generally like it, but the issue with RSS has very little to do with reader front ends and largely to do with how a lot of people don't publish full articles on RSS, images don't work, etc. The demo images of all the readers are like best case scenario - most non-personal sites only publish a paragraph or two, if that, making the reader more of a link aggregator.
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I use feedly because it's where I landed after GReader; I don't love it, but it has worked continually without bothering me enough to think about it.
But one day I want to look into alternatives, and the number one thing in my wishlist is to be able to scrap sites that crop the full article in the feed. Going from the RSS client to the browser to the reader mode in the browser is such an absurd friction.
Edit: Well, after 12 years, that day ended up being today. I found a client called FeedMe that syncs with Feedly and can load the full article inside the client. It also has some other features that I was looking for, like filters. There might be more clients like that, but this is the first I found. I shouldn't have been so lazy all this time.
> very little to do with reader front ends and largely to do with how a lot of people don't publish full articles on RSS, images don't work, etc.
That's exactly what some of the front ends help resolve - they parse the link to get the full content, some even for sites requiring login.
Some readers can download the full article. I tried Miniflux a while back I think that one supports it.
FreshRSS supports CSS selectors and others to get the full content.
I've also built a bunch of RSS feed hydrators myself where the process of getting content to the feed isn't as simple as "grab that bit of the page".
Like my HN feed uses Opengraph information from the linked article to fill in a picture and preview as well as the Algolia HN api to get scores and comment counts.