We now have full text RSS for paying subscribers

We want you to read Jank, but that doesn't mean we need you to visit our website. There are no adverts here, so your clicks? Worthless to us. You can keep your clicks to yourself, frankly, and the best way to do that is by subscribing to Jank in your RSS reader and enjoying our work from there.

We've always had a full text RSS feed, but when we started slipping certain posts behind the paywall (because we do want your money), those posts became truncated within the feed. Paying members had to click over to the site in order to access the rest of the article. I can't abide that, so we've fixed it. There's now a second full text RSS feed for paying subscribers.

This new RSS feed is behind a URL that is unique to each paying subscriber. If you're signed in and a paying member, it should display in this helpful box:

It contains every article in full so you can stick it in your RSS reader as a replacement for the public feed. Since this link is unique to you, please don't share it with other people. As mentioned, though we might not need your clicks, we do want money to keep the lights on and the freelancers fed.

Your new RSS feed also has a permanent home over here should you ever need to retrieve it in future. It should work for as long as you're a paying subscriber.

I've loved RSS for over twenty years. It's a great way to read articles in a format that suits you and to receive updates without needing to engage with social media. I've tried to support it at every website I've worked at, usually with success, but always with the uncomfortable sensation that we were doing something contrary to all the business incentives that exist for ad-supported websites. RSS was low priority both because not many people use it, and because if lots of people did use it that would mean fewer people seeing the annoying adverts.

I can be flippant about not needing your clicks because we don't have adverts, but really what feels good is, because Jank is supported by its readers, the business incentive is simply to do things our readers like. Some of our readers like RSS, so we can spend the time and money to properly support RSS. That's great.