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Now that most of my issues regarding this site are resolved, I want to start
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writing about something. I have a lot of topics I want to talk about, however
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for many of these topics there's just not much content to them, so I apologize
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for the length of some of these.
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Anyways what better topic to start with than this one. My blog isn't perfect,
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I post a lot of garbage here quite often, but what pisses me off is when people
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will write blog posts, have an RSS feed and then ruin it with one thing.
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They will put about 1/10 of the blog post in the `description` tag, and then
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they will have the blog post in full on their website.
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This is extremely annoying, because it means I have to open up my bloated web
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browser just to view your blog post which could normally be read using my RSS
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reader, which is designed for reading blog posts. What if I want to read your
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blog post on the command line? Or what if I want to read your blog post when
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I don't have internet?
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Good RSS readers like Newsboat and sfeed store the full feed locally, meaning
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you can actually read the articles even when you don't have any internet
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connection. But when you force me to go to your website, I can't just save it
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when I do have internet and read the blog post whenever I want to read it.
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Now, I know why you would do this. If you have a site, chances are you want
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people to visit it. RSS is convenient, very convenient and I'm going to admit I
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don't actually visit the sites for blogs I follow very often, usually I read the
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feeds every day and then very occasionally visit the websites. But I still think
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this is annoying.
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So, if you're going to have a blog and you plan on using RSS, please provide the
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full blog post in the description tag. I know this can cause issues with
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paragraphs, but you can steal my feed as a base if you want. Thanks for
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reading, and have a good day.
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