RSS plugin default show full post

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

As mentioned. Can we have a setting added to display the full post without pressing the show full post button?

[kem5]

Yes full-text option, please

[jericson (Jon Ericson)]

Have you tried this suggestion from the plugin documentation:

If the embed truncate site setting is enabled on your site (it is enabled by default), feed topics will only display an excerpt of the feed post. Users can view the full post by clicking the “Show Full Post” button that is displayed below the excerpt. Discourse will then scrape the topic’s embed URL to get the full post content. If the full post content is not being correctly retrieved, you can fix the issue by configuring the embed whitelist selector site setting. See Configure the Allowed Embed Selectors Setting for details about that setting.

Though I will note the whitelist setting is now called allowed embed selectors. I’ve also had difficulty getting images from Substack to embed properly when using Discourse as an RSS reader. At least now I get a broken image that I can click through to, which is better than nothing.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

One question though. Will that make any posted url link expand fully?

Ie if we shared this topic or say a general link to a news site?

I would be looking to only have this function on the RSS feeds that are pulled vs all url links.

But cool did miss that in the documentation.

In my use case I am RSS pulling from another site I am an admin(for a client) to feed 1 category automatically to feed my site. Both are discourse. But may also find it handy for other news sites I have feeds from.

[jericson (Jon Ericson)]

@Heliosurge

Will that make any posted url link expand fully?

If you mean a onebox, like this:

Create rich link previews with Onebox

Onebox converts your web links into useful preview excerpts that help inform readers about the target before they click through. To create a onebox, simply paste any link into a post on a line by itself, like so: https://example.com/interesting-article Which results in … In addition to supporting general oEmbed and OpenGraph tags, Onebox has many custom rules for extremely popular sites including Wikipedia, Twitter, Amazon, Youtube, Soundcloud, Stack Overflow, Github and more. Try it o…

Than no. But it does expand the original post if you use Discourse as a comment system for another site. Essentially they use the same mechanisms under the hood.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Okay yes that answers my concern. Will try out the settings you mention. As the content pulled from the other discourse forum depending on the post has caveats.

Thank you for your advice & expertise. Really appreciated!