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by kjkjadksj 761 days ago
I even use a cli rss client and i have no issue with images. They get pulled out of the article and mapped to a number on the keyboard, hit that and the direct image link opens in a firefox window behind my little article window. Works for me. Beats looking at the website. Javascript I am glad I never see it. As far as no discovery, I have discovered these feeds I follow somehow haven’t I.
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>cli RSS

That's even worse. I'm talking about putting a large image under the article's headline, the way every social media feed does it. Although I hate irrelevant images, the human brain can recognize images faster than it can read text. If articles had a relevant images, you would be able to find interesting articles just by glancing at a masonry grid on the screen.

But in order to do this, the RSS code needs to include the images in first place, and there is no guarantee it will even though the HTML side will usually have it properly marked up.

Readers like inoreader handle this like you say