Substack subtitles are dropped #42

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opened 2026-09-19 08:16:15 -07:00 by rays · 1 comment
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A feed item's <description> was thrown away whenever it also had content:encoded. Substack puts a post's subtitle in the description and leaves it out of the body, so the subtitle never showed. Listed as a known gap in CLAUDE.md.

A feed item's `<description>` was thrown away whenever it also had `content:encoded`. Substack puts a post's subtitle in the description and leaves it out of the body, so the subtitle never showed. Listed as a known gap in CLAUDE.md.
rays added the bug label 2026-09-19 08:16:15 -07:00
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Fixed in f1f605e, released in 0.8.3 and deployed. A description that is short plain text and not already in the body now shows above it in italics; podcast notes repeated in both fields still show once. Checked against Experimental History's feed and The Daily's. Only items first seen after the deploy have it: entries are stored once, ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING.

Fixed in f1f605e, released in 0.8.3 and deployed. A description that is short plain text and not already in the body now shows above it in italics; podcast notes repeated in both fields still show once. Checked against Experimental History's feed and The Daily's. Only items first seen after the deploy have it: entries are stored once, ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING.
rays closed this issue 2026-09-19 08:16:16 -07:00
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Reference: rays/ipodderx-rs#42