[erelong]

I kinda don't like RSS because I often want like a whole blog archive downloaded if I add a new feed and it usually has limits how far back of posts it will download (randomly configured by each site)

Unless someone has a fix of whatever settings I've been using

[happytoexplain]

Sorry, I don't have a solution. But I use RSS for everything, and I can confidently say: RSS is not designed for your use case.

[conesus]

For the Premium Archive tier, NewsBlur attempts to download a blog's entire backlog to backfill stories, whether it's exposed through paging or RFC 5005. Here's more info about how NewsBlur does it: https://blog.newsblur.com/2022/07/01/premium-archive-subscri...

[jayemar]

I had a similar issue where I wanted to read a newly-followed blog from the beginning instead of the point in time when I started to follow, so I created https://refeed.to/

[phyzix5761]

I use Elfeed for Emacs and it stores the history as you download updates so you can always go back and read an old post.