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I noticed that the rss module isnt showing any descriptions of the news feeds. (10.0 upgrded from 9.x)

Here is woot!s rss feed http://www.woot.com/blog/rss.aspx notice the descriptions

But the rss module only displays the titles of the articles, same with slashdot.org http://slashdot.org/rss/index.rss

Is this a limitation in the module that can be easily fixed? Or is it more complicated than I may think? Is it possibly an argument I am missing in the tag? {module="rss" descriptions="1"}
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It's not super complicated.  I'll see what I can do for 0.10.1 (there was already a bug put in for this one earlier).
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Thanks.

btw, 10 is awesome. I love the admin interface changes. I had some problems with my templates (arguments in the body tag is all I can figure) but otherwise it was a smooth upgrade.

Any chance on a 'list all' button for content pages (or all lists that get paginated). If it wasnt too taxing on the system I would sure use it. I am used to things like seemingly unending lines in squirrel mail (view all) and countless pages of dumped data from phpMyAdmin. If you have the connection for it it sure saves some clicks trying to find what page your content item is on.

I didnt look for a previous post on this subject, I just thought I would throw you a curve ball ;-)
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Gee.  Thanks.  :)

Can you make a feature request in mantis?  I know I'll forget by the time I get to look at it.  Thanks!
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Will do.
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If it's urgent search this forum for Piratos pimped-up "pirss" module, it has more features and is just a plugin!
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Thanks, I checked the usual places (downloads, wiki). I will check it out.
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Oooh... I dig it.

Thanks for the info, it works quite well!
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I've never looked at it.  Does it cache it's data?  Or does it go out and read the feed on every refresh?  That could serioulsy be a problem....
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