Can't get to the original page from the RSS feed anymore! (v0.51)

[simonwiles]

I'm a heavy RSS user and I was excited to see the RSS enhancements in v0.51. I'm still exploring the new capabilities but I think I'm going to like them -- thank you!

With the new-style feed, though, there's no longer a link in the RSS article to get directly to the changed page, which breaks my normal workflow completely. Can this be added back in?

(I didn't want to file this as an issue -- hope it's okay here!)

[dgtlmoon]

hey! ahh, snap, you mean the history page right? history/diff ? can you send a screenshot how it used to work?

[simonwiles]

I'm talking about the article that is produced in the RSS feed. Here's what I get with versions < 0.51 (I'm using FreshRSS here, fwiw):

It's not like it couldn't be improved, but it has everything I need, and the orange text (which I've circled in red in the screengrab) is a link to the monitored page (https://civicrm.org/download in this case) so I can go straight there from my feed reader.

With >= 0.51 I get this, which is tidier but less functional:

[dgtlmoon]

where does that orange text come from? its from our feed right, not from their website?

[simonwiles]

Yeah, that's right -- "CiviCRM New Versions" is the title of the "watch" in my changedetection.io instance. It's just a regular hyperlink in the <description/> element of the <item/> in the RSS feed (it's orange on account of my FreshRSS theme 🙂).

[simonwiles]

Update: I changed the "RSS Content format" to "HTML Color" in /settings#rss and my feed has gone back to how it was before. It looks like the "regression" in 0.51 was actually that "Plain Text" was forced? (I don't recall whether I explicitly set this setting in the past or not, tbh.)

Does that make sense?

[dgtlmoon]

Done!! See 0.51.2 let me know if it's still needs work

[dgtlmoon]

Done!! See 0.51.2 let me know if it's still needs work