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Nice list and blog you have. You now have one subscriber more to your RSS feed. By the way, I disagree with your stance on RSS excerpts. ;)

manuelmoreale 3y ago
Can you tell me why? I’m always interested in hearing from people with different opinions.
- rambambram 3y ago
  Well, I really get your point. If I would use RSS mainly for it's newspaper-like newsreader function, excerpts would indeed be the last thing I want. Just give me the full article, in that case. I foresee another function for RSS. I call it Really Social Sites, and what I do with it is more like a timeline. A timeline that you see at regular social media. My site offers it's own feed to the web, but it also has a reader-function where I follow all kinds of websites. So far nothing different. Except that I can only see short excerpts from the sites I follow. I do this on purpose, because I think it's important to visit the site. I think it's respectful, because people put effort in their sites, people want to know - at least a little bit - how many visitors they had, maybe also where these visitors came from. And from a user point of view, while visiting somebody's website you might stumble upon something unexpectedly nice. One might be compelled to leave a message for the site owner on some contact form after a good article. Etc.
  - manuelmoreale 3y ago
    Thank you for explaining this. I see what you mean and it’s great that you want to take the extra step to actually visit the site rather than consuming content directly on the feed. It’s something I also do I’d say 70% of the time. Some sites are just too enjoyable to browse and I prefer to read there. Others are not so great (bad typography and bad colors can make the reading experience very unpleasant) and I read on my RSS in those cases. Which is why I think full content in rss feeds should be the way to go. It allows me to chose how to consume the content. If you only serve excerpts I have no other option but to read on the site even if the reading experience is terrible. Maybe the solution here is to have two feeds?

manuelmoreale 3y ago

Can you tell me why? I’m always interested in hearing from people with different opinions.

rambambram 3y ago
Well, I really get your point. If I would use RSS mainly for it's newspaper-like newsreader function, excerpts would indeed be the last thing I want. Just give me the full article, in that case. I foresee another function for RSS. I call it Really Social Sites, and what I do with it is more like a timeline. A timeline that you see at regular social media. My site offers it's own feed to the web, but it also has a reader-function where I follow all kinds of websites. So far nothing different. Except that I can only see short excerpts from the sites I follow. I do this on purpose, because I think it's important to visit the site. I think it's respectful, because people put effort in their sites, people want to know - at least a little bit - how many visitors they had, maybe also where these visitors came from. And from a user point of view, while visiting somebody's website you might stumble upon something unexpectedly nice. One might be compelled to leave a message for the site owner on some contact form after a good article. Etc.
- manuelmoreale 3y ago
  Thank you for explaining this. I see what you mean and it’s great that you want to take the extra step to actually visit the site rather than consuming content directly on the feed. It’s something I also do I’d say 70% of the time. Some sites are just too enjoyable to browse and I prefer to read there. Others are not so great (bad typography and bad colors can make the reading experience very unpleasant) and I read on my RSS in those cases. Which is why I think full content in rss feeds should be the way to go. It allows me to chose how to consume the content. If you only serve excerpts I have no other option but to read on the site even if the reading experience is terrible. Maybe the solution here is to have two feeds?