Gist content not shown in RSS feed

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  i3arnon · Member · Oct 30, 2015 at 11:44 pm

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  Hey,
  I’ve moved my code snippets to GitHub gists and this works great on the blog.

  However, since it’s using JS scripts it doesn’t show up for people in the RSS feed.

  Is there something to do about it? Or am I doomed to use the regular old code blocks?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Nov 2, 2015 at 5:08 pm

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  Unfortunately, GitHub gists won’t appear in RSS readers as you say. It’s not a perfect solution — but one thing you could do is use summaries for your RSS feed.

  At Settings -> Reading, set the option:
  “For each article in a feed, show: Summary”

  That way, users reading your feed will be encouraged to view your site, where they’ll see the Gists.

  I know it’s imperfect, and may not work for your purposes. In that case, I’d use regular code blocks, and a link to your repo.