Comment by danShumway | Hacker News Reader

Comment by danShumway | Hacker News Reader

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As someone who hand-codes their RSS feeds and doesn't include article content at all (just a title/link/description), what's the recommended setup for this?

Can I just spit the raw HTML at you? Do I need to inline images? I'm assuming that someone who's consuming a full feed isn't going to want any CSS included.

I'm not against this, but I'm also hand-coding all of my blogs, and this seems like a problem that would be more easily and more consistently solved by a user-run service like the one you've made. I don't know what readers currently support, and I'm looking around quickly on DuckDuckGo and not seeing many resources about generating full-text feeds that don't boil down to, "click the button in Wordpress."

Again, I have no problem supporting this, but if I'm going to put the time in to change my blogs, I kind of need more prodding than just one or two people saying it annoys them. I don't have any specific reason I wouldn't want to accommodate people like you -- I'm not advertising on my blogs and I don't have any analytics, so I don't care where you read. But I don't want to invest a lot of time into building a completely new content pipeline.

You can just put raw html and normal img tags. Just think of it as an unstyled version of your normal website, just rendering the article portion.

Also look at other pages’ rss feeds that include full articles.

Definitely understand the hand crafting etc has value if your post is complex and has interactive elements or lots of graphic design, and would be a shame to go to waste.

I guess the main thing you need to provide really is the text and images, <p>, <strong>, <img> tags etc. If you look at your site in Reader View in Firefox or Safari and it looks OK - that should be good enough

> I'm not advertising on my blogs

Perhaps you should, I enjoyed finding stuff like this : https://danshumway.com/blog/gamasutra-vulnerabilities/

Perhaps they enjoy not having their website marred by online advertisements?

I'm really glad you enjoyed the article :)

I realize that there are some ways that people serve ads where they vet them and make sure they're not tracking readers. But even if it was easy to set something like that up, I wouldn't feel good running sponsored content or ads on my platforms -- it's not the relationship I want to have with my readers.

I take a much more negative view of ads than most other people I know. I don't just dislike ads that track users or that are poorly vetted. I dislike the psychological effect that ads have on people, I dislike the attention that they take, and I am very cautious of monetization schemes that are too closely integrated into the consumption of content. I can't think of a way I could run ads that wouldn't make reading my blog a worse experience.

I know that's a somewhat extreme position to take. But it's not that advertising is inherently evil, it's just that it has more consequences and costs than most people realize. It's not only about privacy, security, or money.

Given how large the current advertising industry is, where possible I try to block it and harm it indiscriminately. I encourage people to block ads even on websites that they would otherwise support. I think it would be good for society if the advertising industry got a lot smaller, even if that makes funding online content harder.

Agree that that is an awesome article.

Suggest you include the posting date on that page, as reading it, I wasn't sure how recent the info was. I was then shocked to find that these vulnerabilities were identified late last year. Some of these are security 101!

I didn't realize I wasn't attaching dates to posts, I will add those under the page headers.

This is off-topic at this point, but I still stand by the ending to that post -- Gamasutra did reach out to me and did work with me for a little while to fix some of the issues, but eventually communication fell off.

I didn't re-check to validate that the issues were fixed because I felt like I had done everything that could be expected of me at that point and because, honestly, the whole thing was really stressful. Even when companies are being nice (and UBM was really nice about the whole thing), public disclosure is still scary. You just hear horror stories.

I still recommend that people be cautious using Gamasutra. I only wrote up specific vulnerabilities that I found accidentally, I didn't pen-test the site. My point with this article was that the site needs to be pen-tested. As far as I know, that's never happened.

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