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Over on Reddit some people reported that the margins were to big, especially on smaller devices.
We should improve that.

Hi 👋

The tool seems to be ko at the moment.

Also it could be something good to provide instructions for self-host to avoid this problem. Maybe you could work on a docker image for this tool !

Regards,
Robin

I just thought about adding an option to convert a website to epub on the fly.
We could add it as a GET parameter or alternatively provide a button.
Would be nice for reading with a desktop epub reader or an ebook reader.
What do you think?

If you run an NY Times article through Readable like so, you'll notice that only 9 (in this case) paragraphs are captured, out of the 30 or so in the original article.

Clearly this is an upstream bug in readability-rs, not Readable, so why am I raising an issue here? Unfortunately it looks like readable-rs may be abandoned: there's been no activity from the maintainer since April of 2021, and there are a couple of trivial pull requests still outstanding from June and September of that year, which makes me think the maintainer is unlikely to show up again any time soon.

I think I've identified the bug in readability-rs: the value of this line is negated when it shouldn't be, or at least I don't think it should be. I haven't fully grokked the scoring algorithm, but when I remove the negation and test against a NY Times article it seems to extract the whole article as I would expect.

So I see three possible courses of action:

• Submit a pull request to readability-rs and see if it gets a response (this has the advantage that if I'm wrong and there's actually some good reason the algorithm is done this way, the maintainer will presumably know)
• Fork readability-rs and fix the bug
• Not bother with any of this since it seems to work okay on most sites and it is, after all, just a fun side project that you threw together for the heck of it. :)

I'll probably go ahead and submit the PR to readability-rs regardless, just in case it gets a response, but I thought I'd check with you here first since I only care about readability-rs insofar as it affects this project.

The service keeps responding with

{"message":"project not ready. Try running `cargo shuttle project restart`.","status_code":503}

Maybe a restart will help? 😎

{"message":"project not ready","status_code":503}

// 20230213133100
// https://readable.shuttleapp.rs/https://github.com/readable-app/readable/issues/new

{
"message": "project returned invalid response",
"status_code": 502
}