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The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ (www.semafor.com)
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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think the Verge messed up: the announcement said there would be a full-text RSS feed for subscribers, but they've actually added full article text to the existing feed, where normally I'd only get 2 or 3 paragraphs.

Their sister site Vox made a similar mistake; their RSS feed already had full text, but once they added the paywall I got the full text of articles that were paywalled if I tried to click through to the site. It's like Vox Media doesn't fully understand how its RSS feeds work.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

They always had everything as full text but now some articles require going to their website. Or request full text via Readability / Postlight parser in your RSS client of choice.