Ⅰ want full content feeds
Fred On Something… talks good stuff about blog titles, but Ⅰ think people should take things a bit farther: full content feeds. Yes, Ⅰ admit, Ⅰ am quite an offline-whore when it comes to keeping up with the blogs Ⅰ read. There are some exceptions, but usually this is because:
* they are well designed and it is quite a pleasure to look at the sites
* they contain photos/pictures or other media that is worth looking at (and Ⅰ hate to admit it: this is the most missing feature of feed readers – lack of support for offline readers like me: download the pictures, even if they are just linked and not feed-enclosures!)
* Ⅰ like to look at their blogroll, sidebars or Ⅰ just stumble there because Ⅰ want to scan the archives or whatever.
The list of feeds Ⅰ read regularly is quite extensive, unordered and just sorted by date. Usually Ⅰ read the like this, flag items Ⅰ want to check out later for link surfing or posting. But then there are those „I will only give you a title and 100 character“-posts that usually only generate one response by me: kick them out of the feed list as soon as Ⅰ have seen too many un-interesting posts. Bloggers out there: if you want to get read – do not force people to browse your site! Make the site’s visit speak for itself but don’t cripple the content! Hey, even place ads in your feeds, those Ⅰ can filter out – but a feed’s text that is incomplete usually is not worth the hassle of going to the flagged item again as soon as Ⅰ am online.
Maybe Ⅰ am overreacting, maybe everyone else has broadband at home and doesn’t do offline anymore. Nevertheless – Ⅰ can’t think of any reason why feeds should be crippled. Bandwidth and Traffic may be a reason – but when your feeds generate that much traffic you either need to upgrade your server or whatever… Ⅰ certainly don’t believe many out there will have these problems. And when Ⅰ look at my traffic logs it seems the search-engine-spiders are generating way more traffic than anyone could do with feeds.
No related posts.
Ähnliche Artikel bereitgestellt von Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Recent Comments