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Testing a Truncated RSS Feed on Above the Law: The Results Are In
- ydant 16y agoI've seen a couple of my favorite sites turn off full feeds, and the results always seems to be the same for me. I visit the site less often when I don't get enough information to draw me in. It doesn't have to be the full content of the blog post, but it should be enough that gets me interested. I usually click through even if it is the full post, but only if I find the content interesting. Usually I'm going to read the comments. Hacker News is pretty much the only feed I have where I don't get any content in the RSS feed and yet I still visit the site for a high percentage of the posts. I really don't want his stats to be true for the general case.
- logic 16y agoMy reaction to feeds I subscribe to moving to teaser-only goes in two directions. I either: a) Unsubscribe. Probably not a bad thing for my productivity anyway; it implies I was remaining subscribed purely because of inertia. b) Spend five minutes to create a Yahoo Pipe for the feed, which grabs the full content and regurgitates it as a replacement RSS feed. (If possible; the target article is, in many cases, too large for Pipes' maximum file size.) I've tried making myself "just deal with it", but I simply end up frustrated by the experience, and most content just isn't worth the headache to me.