Make RSS feeds more readable #410
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I have been looking for a solution to the comically long titles in my rss reader for feeds, this could be it. |
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I don't use Nitter's RSS feature myself, so I have no strong opinions on this, but it looks good to me. Thank you! |
This was referenced Dec 30, 2021
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The tweets retrieved by Nitter use literal newline characters rather than HTML
<p>or<br>tags. When these are included verbatim in RSS feeds, some RSS readers will just concatenate all the lines together, which can make tweets difficult to understand. Thepre-wrapattribute used by the Nitter UI won't necessarily be respected by RSS readers, so this PR inserts<br>tags alongside newlines as a best-effort attempt to improve readability. In addition, it shortens the titles of RSS feed items to a truncated prefix of the tweet text, rather than having an awkwardly long title that duplicates the description. I can split those into two separate PRs if that's preferable.