The tech is great, the feeds are just garbage / 2nd tier citizens. Garbage in, garbage out rule still lives.
e.g. I've got an economist sub - a reputable source of news. Checked out the feed...picked one...week in review. Title on every post is week in review. Content of post is a link. No context, no summary, no single sentence...nothing.i.e. Would need to click through to find out topic on each one.
Might as well not use RSS...
Love the concept but have concluded in practice it is a non-starter. The usefulness of it depends entirely on what providers stick in the feed. And all their focus is on pushing their app/twitter/insta etc. Not hard to monetize RSS.
> Content of post is a link. No context, no summary, no single sentence...nothing.
Run it through an RSS full article extractor:
https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS#full-article-extra...
Many feeds are useless without one, but tremendously useful with one.
And if you don't like a website's RSS feed, make one yourself, formatted as you see fit:
Is an RSS full article extractor hard to implement? I'm using elfeed in Emacs and I would love to have this functionality.
I work on a service called Full-Text RSS[2] that used a PHP port of Readability, coupled with site-specific extraction rules[3] to identify and extract article content from each feed item. It then produces a full-text version of the given feed. The idea is you subscribe to the full-text version in whichever feed reader you use and it will give you full-text articles where you had partial content before.
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/readability