Feed Needs

March 1, 2005

Are you reading these posts in an RSS application?

If so, drop me an email at tim @ [this domain name ] or use the http://tntluoma.com/contact/ form.

I just realized that MT3 puts full text of posts in the feeds. This has plusses and minuses, and I’d like to know how folks feel about it.

Previously I was just posting excerpts. The “full text feeds” often lack links to URLs and other stuff that might be useful (i.e. like being able to tell when something is in a BLOCKQUOTE rather than being my own words).

But if people like the full text feeds, I’ll keep them.

You have until the weekend to cast your vote.

By the way, I haven’t figured out a way to be notified when someone posts a comment, so I have to manually look for them and approve them. Don’t be offended if this takes awhile, I probably just forgot to check. If you use TypeKey (www.typekey.com) your comments will be instantly posted and I do get a copy of them (in case any lousy spammers sign up to TypeKey and try to post comments).

By the way, if you have no idea what I’m talking about (Hi mom!) feel free to ignore this entirely :-)

  • If people post interesting content once in a while, I don't mind going over to their website to read it.


    But if you'd post such stuff daily, I really appreciate a full-text feed. My feed-reader can handle HTML in an RSS 2.0 or Atom feed just fine :)

  • I generally subscribe to the full-text feeds, too (using Opera), but I usually do go to the actual page to read it anyway. I like having the full text for searching, while reading usually is easier on the actual blog page (except for people who have been very...creative...with page layout).

  • I do enjoy full-text feeds, because I can choose to read it immediatly, if that is what I desire.


    However, I also see why someone would want excerpt/summary feeds, so why not offer both? (e-mail me privately if you want my feed templates).


    Regarding: "By the way, I haven't figured out a way to be notified when someone posts a comment, so I have to manually look for them and approve them."


    If you are using MT-Blacklist (which you really, really should), you can get e-mailed about pending approvals by entering "AUTHOR,ADMINS" in Configure/Notifications

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