# RSS feed reveals spoilers

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-reveals-spoilers/165689
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 28, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-reveals-spoilers/165689 "2020-09-28T23:26:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![dfabulich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dfabulich/32/108716_2.png) [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-reveals-spoilers/165689/1 "2020-09-28T23:26:40Z")

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[This example post](https://try.discourse.org/t/mlp-fim-season-3-spoilers-ahoy/67) on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) includes spoilers.

> [@](#):
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> Stupid toy company, spoiling the big reveal in season 3. Well, don’t look if you don’t want to, but this is kind of the point of thread:
> 
> Twilight Sparkle becomes a princess, and earns her wings. Yea, it was obvious in hindsight, we have the sun, and the moon, but no stars, right? And twilight sparkle - obvious, really. And sure, every girl wants friends and to be a princess, so, you know, it’s really just playing to the audience.

But look at the RSS feed for the general category:

[https://try.discourse.org/c/general/5.rss](https://try.discourse.org/c/general/5.rss)

```
<p>Stupid toy company, spoiling the big reveal in season 3. Well, don’t look if you don’t want to, but this is kind of the point of thread:</p>
<div class="spoiler">
<p>Twilight Sparkle becomes a princess, and earns her wings. Yea, it was obvious in hindsight, we have the sun, and the moon, but no stars, right? And twilight sparkle - obvious, really. And sure, every girl wants friends and to be a princess, so, you know, it’s really just playing to the audience.</p>
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The spoiler appears in a `<div class="spoiler">` tag, but, without styles, that does nothing; the full spoiler appears in any RSS reader.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-reveals-spoilers/165689/2 "2020-09-28T23:35:04Z")

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Marking this as feature request, agree it is a bit of a problem and that we should sort it out.

I guess the simplest thing is just to omit the spoiler altogether from RSS, @techAPJ seems like an easy change can you take it.

Not urgent.

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### Author: ![dfabulich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dfabulich/32/108716_2.png) [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-reveals-spoilers/165689/3 "2020-09-28T23:52:17Z")

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I guess I agree that it’s not super urgent, but I think it’s a “bug” not a feature request.

I like the way spoilers are currently handled in emails: Spoilers are replaced with a link that says “spoiler.”

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-reveals-spoilers/165689/5 "2021-09-09T03:19:28Z")

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> [@dfabulich](#):
>
> I like the way spoilers are currently handled in emails: Spoilers are replaced with a link that says “spoiler.”

Implemented the same in RSS via:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/01341f33e3f16777767d0ad80008c52d4d44d941](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/01341f33e3f16777767d0ad80008c52d4d44d941)

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-reveals-spoilers/165689/6 "2021-09-10T02:30:31Z")

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