Comments on: Bloggers and their Feeds

By: Leanne

Leanne — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:42:36 +0000

Lulu – you’ve got a full feed. :yes:

By: Lulu

Lulu — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:20:16 +0000

Oh dear! I hope that mine is set to that option! Guess I better find out…

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:59:26 +0000

Ok, I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m one of the last bloggers on earth who still doesn’t use a feed reader. I actually go from site to site when I have time to read blogs, LOL.

I really ought to join the treadmill one of these days.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:58:12 +0000

Amen!! I 100% agree with you! When I come across a feed that is clipped, I more often than not unsubscribe!

By: Tink

Tink — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:54:08 +0000

You are not alone for sure, I second that. I’m using GoogleReader and think exactly the same. As far as I know my feed shows full content. If it doesn’t please let me know!

By: Leanne

Leanne — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:24:58 +0000

Yayy June! :clapping: Yours is one that I always want to come back to but never seem to make it, so THANK YOU!!

By: June

June — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:13:02 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I had opted for abbreviated ones to get people to come to the actual site so inserted pictures could be seen. I’ve just changed over to full after reading your post and comments. I did this at Typepad account site. I didn’t see any options for inserting “more” depending on length of post. I use Feedburner and didn’t see any options at all there.

By: Joni

Joni — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:57:09 +0000

I hate it whenever I have to click on the “More” link too. I wish to read the full post in my reader then just opt to leave a comment after I’ve read the whole thing. I wish everyone would use Cavemonkey’s full text feed. The plugin allows your blog to generate full text feeds regardless of the “More” tag usage.

Here’s another one I found: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/full-text-feed/

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:53:35 +0000

Bob,

The way I see it, feedreaders allow people to read everything in one place. So then, why force people who WANT to read it all in one place to have to visit multiple sites, when that’s what they’re trying to cut back on? It is time consuming, and staying on task is really vital to people trying to make time for more and more reading on the web.

Even my news feeds – if I don’t see something in the title, I whiz right past it. I can’t tell you the last time I clicked through on a snipped feed item in my reader.

I’d say it’s much more considerate to offer a full feed, and clip items that are only so long that you clip them at the site level, as well.

:2cents: