The discussion highlights a problem where spoilers in Discourse posts appear unhidden in RSS feeds, despite being wrapped in <div class="spoiler"> tags that rely on CSS for concealment. dfabulich illustrates this with an example post about MLP:FiM Season 3 spoilers, noting that RSS readers display the full spoiler text plainly. sam agrees it’s an issue and suggests omitting spoilers entirely from RSS as a simple fix, marking it as a feature request. dfabulich argues it’s more accurately a bug and prefers the email handling method — replacing spoilers with a clickable “[spoiler]” link. techAPJ implemented this preferred solution in RSS feeds via a code commit, aligning RSS spoiler handling with email behavior.
<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>
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<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.