Slon104
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4 days ago I'm also experiencing similar issues with defective feeds in my current RSS reader. Often, these feeds are loaded as if they are new, every time I request them. It's crucial for me that any implemented changes do not prevent me from seeing content that has been edited after its initial release. I appreciate how media outlets frequently update their headlines and article bodies, and I value being able to track these changes.
This is the problematic RSS feed for me: https://www.tasrtv.sk/rss
Also, preventing duplicate articles from appearing repeatedly due to feed errors would be a significant improvement. I hope these suggestions contribute positively to the ongoing development of Fluent Reader.
I have been using Feedbro, a browser extension, as my daily rss reader for 2 years now, and after a lot of searching I´ve noticed that it´s actually the best rss reader, the most flexible one and the most reliable one, and I see some potential in fluent reader to be as amazing as that one, so I have some features I appreciate from Feedbro that I would like to have in fluent reader.
Rules with more filter options than regular expressions. I mean, regular expressions are enough, for sure, but I would like to have an easier way to create rules, for example an filter like "Articles that contains all the words..." and a list of text boxes to enter all the words you want to filter with that.
An option to copy the link of a list of articles, or just an option to select multiple articles and then the option to copy all selected. That is useful for example if you have an rss with a torrent site, so you can filter by name all the torrents and select some of then and copy them to your torrent manager. It could be useful also for downloading multiple images from an image site.
An option to extract an image from a feed. In Feedbro you have an option to "try to extract" an image from the link of the feed that don´t has one, so every article can have a custom image in the feeds and identify those articles faster than reading the title. For example, imagine that you have a feed that has an article without an image attached to it, but when you open the article there are some images in it, then the reader would try to get some of those images and show one of them in the article before you have to open it to see them. Also it would be nice to have an option to decide if this images are shown full or cropped so they can fit in the article body, or just an option to have all the images full uncropped, because as it is now, I see some images full because they are 16:9 but in some other images that are vertical I only see the middle of them and I have to open the article to see them full.
An option to zoom in or zoom out in the feeds, so you can have lots of small articles or see just 3 of them in a big size for example. That would be useful mostly in the card view.
Prevent duplicated articles. Detect articles with the same title and description and delete them automatically, since some feeds are "defective" and gives you the same articles even if you loaded some of them already.
That´s all, that would make this the new best feed reader I know so far. Thanks for this amazing rss reader and keep the good work!.