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To address #3, provide only the title and a very brief excerpt in your feed with a link to the full monetized post.
by technotarek 7y ago
To address #3, provide only the title and a very brief excerpt in your feed with a link to the full monetized post.
- RussianCow 7y agoThis solves #2 as well, to the extent that copying your content wholesale becomes almost as hard as it would have been had you not had an RSS feed in the first place.
- mcgrath_sh 7y agoYup. I wouldn’t subscribe to the Athletic without an RSS feed. I stopped reading Players Tribune when they axed their feed. Give me title, tags, and first two sentences so I can categorize the feeds and I’m a happy camper. I got rid of my reddit app on my phone. I was needlessly checking reddit multiple times a day. RSS provides me the same information without having to argue with people who are “wrong online.”
- chii 7y agoExcept now your readers have to click out of the RSS reader, rather than stay in there and read. I find it jarring and obtrusive to do that, and prefer just to visit the site instead if they RSS did this.
- ViViDboarder 7y agoMost readers embed a browser making this pretty simple. I prefer content embedded in my reader, but I don’t mind clicking through if it helps the author. Though, in my case I doubt it will since I’m blocking any kind of trackers, which includes many ads.
- Semaphor 7y agoI usually prefer that as well, but if the choice is no RSS and headline+excerpt RSS, I’m absolutely fine with the latter. Without RSS I won’t read any regular content.