Comments on: I’m not Reading Your Partial Feed

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:01:34 +0000

Great work, John. Thanks!

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:42:14 +0000

Only had a handful of minutes to research this. It seems to be quite a hot topic actually, and here’s one solution- a dual feeds WordPress plug-in. http://www.scratch99.com/wordpress-plugin-dualfeeds/ It’s not listed on the WP Compatibility list for 2.6 but it is for 2.5.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:38:06 +0000

Good suggestion, John. I hadn’t thought of that. Do any of the major blog platforms have an option for dual feeds?

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:04:01 +0000

Why not both a full feed and a partial post feed? Let the user decide which they want. Also, where the issue is aggregation, ethical aggregators can grab the partial feed, thereby driving traffic to the original source.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:45:39 +0000

Thanks for the comment! I would buy that, and I like that reasoning. However, many (most?) of your readers will subscribe with a feed reader that keeps each post separate. And others will subscribe via email with a service that sends separate emails for each post.

Overall, though, I would think the reasoning would be the same as for your homepage. If I’m not going to want to just skim the offers on your homepage, I think it’s even less likely that I would want to skim them in my email. I don’t want to have a separate click for each thing I want to read.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:45:35 +0000

I still need a bit of convincing. I don’t show the full feed for Atlanta on the Cheap, but my reasoning is that some days the email will contain multiple posts. My thinking is that the readers want to quickly glance through the deals (free museum admission days, free ice cream, half-off theater tickets, free concerts around the metro area,etc) & will click on the deals they want to check out.

I prefer to keep all of the info on one screen. If I bury, say, the free admission days under a post with a long listing of free concerts in the area, they’ll never see it since, in all likelihood, they won’t scroll down.

I do show the full posts for the last 10 or so posts on the first page of my blog, but that just makes sense. There are other ways for readers keep tabs on posts further down the page, such as the list of recent posts.

By: Karin, RN

Karin, RN — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:22:42 +0000

LOL

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:54:31 +0000

Maybe you can start a support group for all the others who will need convincing

By: Karin, RN

Karin, RN — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:51:18 +0000

I don’t want to be dumb so–oh this is hard for me–I am releasing full feeds as of today.