Comments on: Do You Use Full or Partial Feeds on Your Blogs? POLL

By: John Baw

John Baw — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:11:44 +0000

Full feeds only. Infact I will unsubscribe from any partial feed blog unless it happens to be an indispensible one (Or a myspace blog…. I know, I know)

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:49:40 +0000

Much better, thanks!

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:24:45 +0000

So your feed is working again, but I’m now seeing partial feeds and not full feeds. Is that a glitch? I figured this was the most appropriate place to put this question. ;)

By: Tim Broder

Tim Broder — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:32:27 +0000

I use the full feed pumped through feedburner.

By: Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:12:58 +0000

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I code my own blog and am looking to migrate from partial to full feeds. Should I put the entire blog post in the field of the feed (RSS 2.0) or is there a more appropriate field? The RSS tutorials out there are pretty basic, since most people use blog platforms.

I’m actually a bit surprised at how upset people seem to get about the partial/full issue. Personally, my intent in using partial feeds originally wasn’t to trick people into clicking through or feed my advertising; I was just trying to save them time and bandwidth (especially on the older readers).

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:54:22 +0000

I recently evicted partial feeds from my RSS reader (unless it was content I REALLY wanted)—only to find that I was publishing one myself. That problem has now been rectified.

Partial feeds are inconvenient and disruptive.

By: The Credence Dot Com

The Credence Dot Com — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:46:16 +0000

Darren I am getting this error after voting –

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By: Brad Hart

Brad Hart — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:06:42 +0000

I am of two minds here. In my new blog, one that I want to make money from soon as I can find the time after my move, I will only offer partial feeds. I want people at the site reading and seeing my advertisers. Once I finalize both novel deals I have in the works I am going to put up an author blog to promote the books and there is no reason for me to not offer full feeds unless of course I am getting through traffic enough to support advertising. Once again if I blogging on either of the publishers sites they only offer partial feeds and there reasoning is sound, draw visitors, gain exposure, make money.

By: Moksh Juneja

Moksh Juneja — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:44:54 +0000

I think it is much better to provide Full RSS feeds…

I understand that we are loosing traffic but the reader will not bother wasting once more click untill or unless the headling is compelling enough!!!
http://mokshjuneja.blogspot.com

By: Supernegro.com

Supernegro.com — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:51:18 +0000

I use full feeds because there’s nothing worse than seeing that ellipsis that signals there’s more content only if you click through. Honestly, I feel like I’m being manipulated just for the extra pageview. Pooh on that.

One of my daily check-ins has a partial feeds, and I only click through on the most tantalizing posts.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:19:34 +0000

Some debate that partial feeds give you a “taste” of the post, that will entice users to visit. But I think full feeds are better, because they give you the entire post.

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:16:11 +0000

How about a follow-up poll on if you prefer full or partial feeds (coming from a reader’s perspective)?

By: Alex Sysoef

Alex Sysoef — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:45:08 +0000

Full feeds only. I personally think that a partial feed is an insult to your readers. If they want to scan the headlines they can visit front page of the blog …

Educating readers on what is RSS and why they should subscribe, combined with Full Feeds creates loyal and happy readers – isn’t this the Goal of our blogs?

I unsubscribe from any feed that doesn’t give me full content – period.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:47:01 +0000

I use the built option with wordpress. I think full RSS feed for my sparkling blog fits my need. :)

Live life and sparkle!™

Michelleladd.com/blog

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:39:47 +0000

I use full feeds. Nothing annoys me more than to be in Google Reader and have to click out to see the post. Following the sentiments of Steve Krug, “Don’t Make Me Click”.

By: Alex @ Net

Alex @ Net — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:02:56 +0000

Most of my readers use some feed aggregation software. I suspect that most of them are subscribed on several subscriptions and too lazy to click on “read more” link :-) I just think so because I’m person of the same sort. So at least I give my posts a chance to be read.

By: KirkWarren

KirkWarren — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:38:25 +0000

I am in the full post feed crowd. I hate seeing a partial feed in my list and, unless extremely compelling, I typically skip the post and move onto the next relevant topic that has a full feed.

By: Jixx

Jixx — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:27:37 +0000

I’m absolutely new to Blogging, and am actually writting my first Software Blog Post, right now. But from what I read, I believe that giving the user the choice between them would be the best, because everyone has differnet needs, and different preferences. Some people may just want a quick view some may want the whole thing, in the end, you don’t know, and every reader is different. So offer your viewers the choice.

Oh and I was also wondering what application you use to make the charts from the last poll. ^_^

By: Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:11:18 +0000

Since my blog engine is home-brewed, I started out with partial feeds, since I assumed that would be more convenient for people. Now that I’ve used a wide range of readers and subscribe to a few dozen feeds, though, it seems like the vast majority use full feeds. I’m strongly considering going that route.

By: Matt Robison

Matt Robison — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:08:47 +0000

I use only full feeds.