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> So apparently many people are doing (1), and if my feed is short then they are limited in the blog history they can read to how long they've personally been subscribed (or less, if they need to clear their device and can't re-download my old posts).

RSS is a means for people to follow new posts from you, in order to read new posts they are supposed to come to your blog and use your archives.

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The whole point of this subthread is about reading archives offline, and how RSS can't manage this. From my first comment:

> it remains incredibly difficult to scrape a well-organized blog and turn it into something I can consume like RSS or a kindle book.

> Note that many/most WordPress RSS feeds aren't that useful because...

> The whole point of this subthread is about reading archives offline, and how RSS can't manage this. From my first comment:

I don't think so, but maybe I missed. It is not the purpose of RSS anyways, though. RSS is for me to know when you post something new.

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