Note from 14 August 2021
New rule: if your RSS/Atom feed doesn't contain the full content, I don't subscribe.
I want to be able to read feeds in my feed reader when offline, so I will not lose time to load empty feeds anymore. 😡
New rule: if your RSS/Atom feed doesn't contain the full content, I don't subscribe.
I want to be able to read feeds in my feed reader when offline, so I will not lose time to load empty feeds anymore. 😡
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