Comments on: To have full RSS feeds or not? http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050216/1469/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:24:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Lora http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050216/1469/#comment-827 Lora Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:47:00 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050216/1469/#comment-827 I title scan when I go through RSS feeds. If something is off-topic I might not even see the partial feed, let alone the full feed. Once I do click on the title to read the actual content, then it doesn't matter to me if it's a paragraph or the full feed. I'll go to the site to read the remainder. Once I'm on a site, I usually do read through other posts on that same site. On the flip side, my experience has been that we get more readers (RSS or otherwise) when we offer full feeds. However, we get greater participation / comments when we offer partial feeds. It's a toss up. I title scan when I go through RSS feeds. If something is off-topic I might not even see the partial feed, let alone the full feed. Once I do click on the title to read the actual content, then it doesn’t matter to me if it’s a paragraph or the full feed. I’ll go to the site to read the remainder. Once I’m on a site, I usually do read through other posts on that same site.

On the flip side, my experience has been that we get more readers (RSS or otherwise) when we offer full feeds. However, we get greater participation / comments when we offer partial feeds. It’s a toss up.

]]> By: Jeremy C. Wright http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050216/1469/#comment-826 Jeremy C. Wright Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:36:00 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050216/1469/#comment-826 I don't read feeds that aren't full text. If I find a good feed I like, I'll often email the owner asking for a full text version. Often as not, it's someone who didn't know their feed wasn't full text. I don’t read feeds that aren’t full text. If I find a good feed I like, I’ll often email the owner asking for a full text version. Often as not, it’s someone who didn’t know their feed wasn’t full text.

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