I never understand motive of partial RSS (specially those one liner). If user is keen to subscribe RSS its more likely he wnats everything right there in feed reader. partial feeds are there to increase unread count and always tent to get unsubscribed.
I don't use RSS feeds any more. I just get everything I need sent to my Twitter feed. If I'm interested in the title, I'll follow the short link to the article.
I prefer full articles, since reading them directly from Google Reader is easier and faster, considering you can easily change between your subscriptions.
grumpymonkey - 15 years ago
Full articles unless its a collection of interesting sites that has so many images it would load/slow my pc.
Most new items in my google reader are just news items or small blog posts. The bigger items i always click to open in a new window and queue them up for reading properly.
I'm surprised no-one has made a goggle labs feature to automatically replace excerpts with the full article from the site. i suppose it would be hard to tell...
As a blogger and a user, I prefer to visit the actual website and I prefer people to visit my website to see when people are reading or not. It's just a nice thing to know. :)
danlucas - 15 years ago
Depends. It's all about the formatting. Most articles are mostly text and maybe an image or two so it looks fine in my rss readers. But if it's image heavy, video heavy or has a lots of special formatting for code or blockquotes, the layout can get strange and make the article very confusing or difficult to read in the reader.
Robert Uridge - 15 years ago
It has got to be full article, I hate having leave my reader to see the rest of the article. Kinda defeats the point of using a reader in the first place.
I have been known to unsubscribe from feeds which use Excerpts in the past for that reason alone!
It depends on the content i'm reading. Some articles I would like to read completely in my RSS client, but some things like tutorials and stuff, I'm happy with just a "teaser"
At my deskop/laptop, I use Fever (feedreader) and I configure to read only excerpts an enter the site if I'm interested, but I think that full articles may be useful in several scenarios. For example, I prefer full articles in case I want to read something on the cell phone.
Matt - 15 years ago
Excerpts. I prefer to visit the original sites, but like to read an introduction.
I don't like reading full articles in my reader ( I use Google Reader ). I like going to the website to read the full article and enjoy the snippets/excerpts in my reader. It might be nice if sites offered a choice. just a thought.
Full articles definitely are more likely to make me click through and comment. I almost always ignore partial feeds and often unsubscribe to such.
cafeN - 15 years ago
I like full article text in my reader unless there are way too many pictures or video embedded in the post. Then a summary, with a line stating content would be useful. :)
Nick - 15 years ago
I prefer the flexibility of both, but would prefer Full if there is only one option.
russell - 15 years ago
From a user stand point, I like the truncated articles - it loads on my phone faster, I don't have to scroll a bunch to get to the articles I need....
From a web developer standpoint, I like full articles because they can be loaded into whatever via ajax or just plain ol' php.
But then again I follow organizations / popular blogs on twitter and use that as my xml feed to let me know when they have new articles.
carl - 15 years ago
Definitely full feeds, even for longer articles. I tend to skim in my reader, and it's very very rare that I click through to see the full article from an excerpt. It's much more likely (for me at least) that a full article with pictures will catch my attention, causing me to click through and even comment.
Depends. If it's full of screenshots like Tutsplus, just give me the "Here's what we're making" intro and a single screenshot. Don't give me all 20 million steps it took to make the graphic.
If it's a article about HTML/CSS or whatnot and doesn't have a lot of code snipplets, then feel free to use the full article. If it has more than 3-4 code blocks, then a really good excerpt is needed.
I never understand motive of partial RSS (specially those one liner). If user is keen to subscribe RSS its more likely he wnats everything right there in feed reader. partial feeds are there to increase unread count and always tent to get unsubscribed.
I still prefer to read website in my browser and never could get warm with reading RSS feeds.
I don't use RSS feeds any more. I just get everything I need sent to my Twitter feed. If I'm interested in the title, I'll follow the short link to the article.
I prefer full articles, since reading them directly from Google Reader is easier and faster, considering you can easily change between your subscriptions.
Full articles unless its a collection of interesting sites that has so many images it would load/slow my pc.
Full articles!!
Most new items in my google reader are just news items or small blog posts. The bigger items i always click to open in a new window and queue them up for reading properly.
I'm surprised no-one has made a goggle labs feature to automatically replace excerpts with the full article from the site. i suppose it would be hard to tell...
Excerpt.
As a blogger and a user, I prefer to visit the actual website and I prefer people to visit my website to see when people are reading or not. It's just a nice thing to know. :)
Depends. It's all about the formatting. Most articles are mostly text and maybe an image or two so it looks fine in my rss readers. But if it's image heavy, video heavy or has a lots of special formatting for code or blockquotes, the layout can get strange and make the article very confusing or difficult to read in the reader.
It has got to be full article, I hate having leave my reader to see the rest of the article. Kinda defeats the point of using a reader in the first place.
I have been known to unsubscribe from feeds which use Excerpts in the past for that reason alone!
It depends on the content i'm reading. Some articles I would like to read completely in my RSS client, but some things like tutorials and stuff, I'm happy with just a "teaser"
At my deskop/laptop, I use Fever (feedreader) and I configure to read only excerpts an enter the site if I'm interested, but I think that full articles may be useful in several scenarios. For example, I prefer full articles in case I want to read something on the cell phone.
Excerpts. I prefer to visit the original sites, but like to read an introduction.
I don't like reading full articles in my reader ( I use Google Reader ). I like going to the website to read the full article and enjoy the snippets/excerpts in my reader. It might be nice if sites offered a choice. just a thought.
What's the use of a feed reader (Google Reader for me) if you have to leave it to keep reading the article ?
I generally prefer to actually go to the website to read articles. For some reason, I just can't stand using an RSS reader.
If I am using a reader, though, I want the entire article to be in there.
Full feed. I don't subscribe to excerpt posts.
If I want a browse articles for interesting stuff, I'll scan headlines--a summary adds zero value.
Excerpts feed!! I'll click to view full article on website, if that's interesting.
Full articles definitely are more likely to make me click through and comment. I almost always ignore partial feeds and often unsubscribe to such.
I like full article text in my reader unless there are way too many pictures or video embedded in the post. Then a summary, with a line stating content would be useful. :)
I prefer the flexibility of both, but would prefer Full if there is only one option.
From a user stand point, I like the truncated articles - it loads on my phone faster, I don't have to scroll a bunch to get to the articles I need....
From a web developer standpoint, I like full articles because they can be loaded into whatever via ajax or just plain ol' php.
But then again I follow organizations / popular blogs on twitter and use that as my xml feed to let me know when they have new articles.
Definitely full feeds, even for longer articles. I tend to skim in my reader, and it's very very rare that I click through to see the full article from an excerpt. It's much more likely (for me at least) that a full article with pictures will catch my attention, causing me to click through and even comment.
Depends. If it's full of screenshots like Tutsplus, just give me the "Here's what we're making" intro and a single screenshot. Don't give me all 20 million steps it took to make the graphic.
If it's a article about HTML/CSS or whatnot and doesn't have a lot of code snipplets, then feel free to use the full article. If it has more than 3-4 code blocks, then a really good excerpt is needed.
Def full articles, i don't like going outside the reader (Google Reader). Also, at least a picture helps a lot.
Full articles, I use Google Reader and nothing annoys me more than when I have to follow an external link for the most basic content.