RSS Feeds - Full or Partial - What Do You Prefer?
Posted by Stropp on August 11, 2007I’m considering doing an experiment with my RSS feeds.
I currently provide a full RSS feed to Stropp’s World which will allow anyone to view all of the articles that I publish in a feed reader.
My question to you dear reader, especially those of you who use a feedreader like Bloglines or Google Reader to access the content on this blog, is: Would it make you terribly unhappy if I changed my RSS feed to a partial feed?
If you will be terribly vexed by a partial feed, make sure you drop by and make a comment. Otherwise, I won’t know.
BTW, at the beginning of this month, I mentioned that one of the goals I had for August was to get to 200 RSS feed readers. If you are visiting and would like to get a convenient notification of when I put up a new post, please subscribe to my blog. You can use this link to do so, or click on the chicklet in the first column of the sidebar. Thanks.
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I love a full feed, but I wouldn’t revolt if you went to partial.
I use Bloglines (love it!). First, I evaluate my interest level for a post in general. If I want to read the whole thing, I either do it via the reader or click through to the site. I find more often then not, partials don’t pass the “interest level” test as well as “full” posts do. Although I have to say your posts get interesting pretty quickly… where as mine tend to need a few paragraphs to gain traction.
Thanks for the complement Delaney.
The more I read on the topic, the more I think I won’t go to a partial feed. I’ve seen a few articles on how most RSS readers actively don’t like partial feeds.
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