[johnsbrayton]

I develop Unread (https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/unread/).

I have some complex logic to find a hero image that is sometimes in a feed entry outside the HTML, and prepend it to the top of the article -- but only if there is not another reference to that image in the article. It is complicated because sometimes there will be hero-image.jpeg in the article and hero-image-1200x500.jpeg outside the article, and I have to judge whether the images are the same.

I am in favor of embedding the image into the HTML, and not adding it elsewhere.

[kevincox]

I'm curious to see the point of view of another feed reader developer. Does all of this advise make sense to you and work well in your app? Is there anything that seems backwards or anything that I missed?

[johnsbrayton]

I mostly nodded as I was reading your advice. I particularly appreciate that you recommend including full article content in feeds, not changing entry IDs, and adding discovery `link` elements to HTML pages.