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I'm Ryan Lowe, a Software Engineering graduate living in Ottawa, Canada. I like agile software development and Ruby on Rails.
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Question for My RSS Feed Readers
I'm making longer posts these days as you've probably noticed. To make my RSS feed smaller I'm only including an excerpt of each post. MoveableType does the excerpt by default but I changed it to show the whole post and I've now changed it back to excerpt again. For people that read my RSS feed (all three of you): do you mind coming to my page to read the whole post? My comment feed will continue to have the full text of comments. I don't want to piss people off too much or they won't subscribe to my feed. :) What do you think? Update Friday 4:26 PM The full body text in the RSS feed is back. Let me know if it doesn't work properly. Posted at April 08, 2004 at 05:20 PM ESTLast updated April 08, 2004 at 05:20 PM EST Comments
Personally, I like having the full text. But, since I only use a reader (technically just a Trillian plug-in) I'm not sure how having only the summarizes will affect people using something like SharpReader (an actual aggregator). I just like being able to mouse-over your blog posts and being able to read the majority of the post.. (if I'm actually interested in it, I'll just browse to the post itself...) » Posted by: peter at April 8, 2004 06:33 PMMaybe I could write longer excerpts ... » Posted by: Ryan at April 8, 2004 07:00 PMFor the most part I just go to your site. I use SharpReader more for keeping up with the comments. I'd use SharpReader reader more, but most of the people that I read don't have a RSS feed, so it's not helping too much right now. I do like having the full text. I find it annoying to read a couple of words and then have to go to the page anyways. » Posted by: Jim at April 8, 2004 07:20 PMI think if you double click on the post in SharpReader, it opens the page that the post is on in the view part, replacing the RSS post. It uses IE for the web page rendering. I haven't used SharpReader in a while though, I could be mistaken. » Posted by: Ryan at April 8, 2004 08:42 PMI guess I make it 4 RSS readers :) I don't mind going to your site.. just make the ecerpt contain enough text. I hate just headlines. » Posted by: Ray Slakinski at April 8, 2004 09:45 PMSounds good, Ray. I'm aiming for something like Tim Bray's excerpts ... except he has his excerpts on the index web page of his blog. I was thinking about doing that too because it's easier to scroll through excerpts to see what you want to read than it is trying to scroll these long posts. I'm still debating it. :) » Posted by: Ryan at April 8, 2004 09:51 PMYes, you can click on the post in SharpReader to bring it up, but with my slow connection, it just ticks me off. That's one reason why I love tabbed browsing. I have a couple of tabs downloading while I am reading something else, and then I switch. It's just a work around that I have so I'm not actually watching the pages come in (which can be cool and REALLY boring at the same time) » Posted by: Jim at April 8, 2004 11:39 PM+1 for full text. I read everything in SharpReader, so I generally like people who put full text in their RSS feed. I don't necessarily mind having to follow a link, but I'm less likely to read something that I have to click to vs. something that's already there in my aggregator. Plus, I read my RSS on my laptop, which means I'm often disconnected. Since SharpReader caches feeds locally, I can read all of your posts when I'm offline if you include the full text in the feed. » Posted by: Steve Maine at April 9, 2004 02:23 AMI agree with Steve. Especially because I sometimes read feeds offline, so I download a big batch and then read them in the train or whatever. +2 for full text. Ps. at least excerpts are better than the "Subject only" feeds that some provides. » Posted by: Isaack at April 9, 2004 05:53 AMPointer: http://radio.weblogs.com/0101131/2004/04/09.html#a114 » Posted by: Patrick Ritchie at April 9, 2004 07:47 AMThe majority has spoken. Thanks for the input guys, the fulltext will be back ASAP. » Posted by: Ryan at April 9, 2004 04:21 PM |
