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> In practice, getting fulltext is rare, and clients for RSS are either POC skeletons of functionality, or they're bloated and include a bunch of shit I'll never use.

You just need the right tools. Miniflux[1], which I will never get tired of recommending at every occasion, has a scraper built-in, so you just need to enter one or two css selectors and it fetches the text for you, ready to be consumed in its excellent, HN-inspired web interface or in your client of choice.

If you can't be bothered to self-host there is a hosted option which is only 15$/year.

Miniflux is the reason I'm a heavy RSS user today (I follow just over 300 feeds at the moment) after years of being intrigued by the possibilities of the standard but ultimately unable to stick to it due to wrong/inadequate tooling. Miniflux was my turning point.

[1]: https://miniflux.app




I setup miniflux when feedly accidentally locked me out about a month ago with their login/google apps changes.

I have been in love ever since. It’s an amazing rss reader and doesn’t even need an app




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