Enjoying Blogs with custom content through RSS
I saw a post today on Bubbles about enjoying sites for the design and how that can be lost in your RSS Feed Reader. I completely agree and while my site is not one of those I know many blogs that I enjoy for the content as well as the design.
I would like to recommend an app for that situation although this is iOS/iPadOS and MacOS only so unfortunately for PC and Android users I don't have an answer, but the app is called Current and allows you to control your RSS in so many ways it can be a bit overwhelming at first.
The first thing is Current is designed to be viewed as a "river" where you can scroll the posts to the end. Within each feed you can set how long each post will last in your river. Is it a news site and only needs a few hours, an article that might need a day or so, someone you must read every time and it will last until you mark read.
Now comes the part I think ties to this post specifically. While troubleshooting a particular RSS feed that wasn't showing posts I found you can have Current show posts in several ways. Fetch whatever the RSS sends even if it's just a preview, Fetch the full content automatically from the blog even if the RSS only sends a preview OR Display every post in Current for this specific feed in the original HTML.
So this happened for the blog by Jason for me and I wasn't getting the content fully delivered, but also his blog is very beautiful to see in the original design. So I updated his blog to "Show Original website" in Current and now the post is viewable immediately in its actual way it was intended.
I don't plug for apps very often, but this little addition by Terry Godier the designer of Current gets my full endorsement and makes the app worth the one time payment of $10 for Mac and iOS. Also Terry's blog is very well designed and also gets the "Show Original Website" setting for me as well.