Comments on: Avoid Clutter in Your RSS Feeds

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:46:24 +0000

The only stuff I have in my feed right now is a block of FeedFlares at the bottom. After reading this I’m considering running a poll to see which one people like the least and removing it.

By: angie

angie — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:43:16 +0000

I have a lot of clutter, and I will probably add more…

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Weekly Brief — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:01:58 +0000

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By: 10 dicas sobre o que você pode evitar para alcançar e manter o sucesso do seu site ou blog at Café Digital

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:38:09 +0000

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By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:44:29 +0000

Nathan – yeah it’s frustrating isn’t it.

I actually switched from Bloglines to Google Reader for this very reason – I’ve not seen a duplicate post since.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked feedburner and bloglines to look at the problem of duplicate posts – neither seems to be able to work out why it happens here (and on many other blogs).

All I can say is sorry and to assure you that it’s not something I’m doing at my end.

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By: renewing your mind

renewing your mind — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:44:19 +0000

This seems to be a growing trend and a huge annoyance for sure. Hopefully people realize and STOP doing it.

By: Nathan Weinberg

Nathan Weinberg — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:19:12 +0000

Darren, another kind of feed clutter: Feeds that are pushing through the same posts, over and over, convincing subscribers to pay less attention, because they assume the content is duplicate.

I’m speaking of course of this blog, where I see the same article five times in Bloglines. It’s been driving me nuts. I know that if I already read Problogger today, and it has fifteen new items in Bloglines, to just skip it, even though it may contain one new item, since almost all of them are always duplicates. I don’t know why it happens, but its annoying, You should talk to the Bloglines team.

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links for 2007-02-13 | On Influence and Automation — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:29:30 +0000

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:35:45 +0000

Maki I am a subscriber to your blog, and have personally clicked through on your related links in the feed.

I know the slowest loading part of my feed are not things like feed flares, but the images I often use that are quite large, and an integral part of the post

By: Maki

Maki — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:06:16 +0000

I’m guilty of including a splatter of related posts in my blog feed. I don’t think my readers are really upset about it because it is functional and helps readers to find other relevant content which might be deep in the archives.

But I do understand how some readers might be irritated..

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:59:48 +0000

One thing that gets me hitting the unsubscribe is not clutter in itself, but clutter that results in feed readers (I use BlogLines) deciding that the message has been updated, thus displaying the message yet again. For example, one person had a comment count in his rather active site, so it got rather tedious seeing the same message every day, so I had to unsubscribe.

By: Do not clutter your RSS feed

Do not clutter your RSS feed — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:49:16 +0000

[...] Darren Rowse published an interesting article questioning whether that extra pack of information can detract from the user experience, especially when the extras are longer than the posts themselves! [...]

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:36:21 +0000

thanks Andy – have updated that link to the page I was thinking about when I included it :-)

By: Baby Matthew

Baby Matthew — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:55:26 +0000

My favourite example of feed clutter is Search Engine Land. Hit the SEL feed on Bloglines and you will get say 10 articles. You then play catch up with the links, as all of the feed flares kick in and you page scrolls further and further down.

By: Alpesh

Alpesh — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:48:55 +0000

Spot on!

By: Tingog

Tingog — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:11:45 +0000

I’ve encountered a lot of these extras rather frequently as of late…