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Great to it’s hosted on a free software forge too not locking in contributions!

Not sure I always agree that feeds should have the full post tho. This not only (obviously) bloats the size of the feed, but there are valid reasons to want to drive users to your site--especially if you have demos or you write about code & have your code blocks syntax highlighted (statically, never do this with a JavaScript) as it provides a better reading experience. You can put styling technically in Atom/RSS but even then, a lot of readers won’t be applying the styling. That said, I definitely appreciate the full post if your site is full of trackers, ads, marketing garbage or other bloat since I can skip the site. Is this some site engineers giving us the nod on a better UX? I read a gridiron football news site & boy does that feed become take a site from unusable to pleasant (good photography).




As a feed consumer I am always happy if a feed contains the full content, but I am not sure if the feed must also include all articles that a site ever published. That would basically make the feed a serialized version of the whole website (which is indeed what a few feeds that I subscribe to do by including sections that are common on personal sites like about/contact/now as items of their feed - but those are the minority). That would actually be fine as long as the archive is small or at certain size, when the feed is paginated. But I am under the impression that most feed generators do not have pagination in mind, also I don't know how well the individual aggregators and readers handle it on the consuming end.




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