Feedback for Improving RSS Feed Content Appearance

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Feedback for Improving RSS Feed Content Appearance

Gulshan_Kumar reported issues with the appearance of RSS feed content on Telegram, specifically with paragraph formatting and emoji display. They suggested improving the formatting or allowing an option to only show a hyperlink, as social platforms can create link previews.

Gulshan_Kumar further emphasized the benefit of restricting content to just a hyperlink, citing a successful experience with a WordPress widget.

However, simon pointed out that the responsibility for feed display lies with the feed reader, not Discourse, as long as the Discourse RSS feed is valid. They suggested checking the feed with other readers, such as Telegram, to isolate the issue. The Discourse RSS feed was found to be valid with minor issues, but these are unlikely to be causing the display problems on Telegram.

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Hello Team,

The original content appears as …

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In RSS Feed (Telegram) it appears as …

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It would be great to improve

  • Paragraph formatting
  • Emoji appearance

I am using IFTTT. If there is any other services that can just show link (instead content) it will fix the problem I think.

This is how I tried at other place

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And it looks similarly. Here too each paragraph was suppose to look clearly seperate from other.

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If you feel this is reasonable feedback that can help others as well, please consider improving.

Thanks & Regards,
Gulshan

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I feel a simple way to restrict showing just hyperlink would be great! As social platform can make link preview at own. I was able to do this in WordPress by disabling “Display item content?” checkbox for widget. I liked the end result.

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As long as there are not errors in the Discourse RSS feed, the responsibility for how the feed is displayed is with the feed reader, not with Discourse. Checking the feed here shows that the feed is valid, with a few minor issues noted: Feed Validator Results: https://meta.discourse.org/latest.rss.

I don’t think the issue that are noted are causing the display problems you are seeing on Telegram. Have you tried Telegram with other RSS feeds?