Comments on: Using RSS to keep up with blogs is much faster!

By: Concojones

Concojones — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:46:22 +0000

Sam, that’s a good point. It’s highly inconvenient when a blog posts very lengthy posts at a high frequency, so that every time you check up on it, it’s a pain finding the next post. In that case, abbreviated posts are a big help.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:11:05 +0000

I prefer partial posts because I follow a lot of feeds. Partial posts make it easy to scroll through them all and see which ones I’m interested in. It’s easy enough to click on the stories I actually want to read

By: krantcents

krantcents — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:39:15 +0000

As a newbie, that is valuable information. Thanks

By: Concojones

Concojones — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:52:32 +0000

Does an RSS only alert you on new blog posts, or does it also alert you of other comments after you’ve left a comment?

The latter would be a useful function for those blogs that do not automatically notify you (of follow-up comments).

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:15:59 +0000

I too can’t stand partial feeds – I just don’t have the time/desire to click through.

I’ll second TFM – of all the times I’ve told blog owners that I didn’t like their partial feeds – probably three quarters of them didn’t know it was happening.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:45:25 +0000

I usually deal with scrapers by deleting all pingbacks and providing links to my blog in the post. That way I get their google juice but they get none of mine. Also, if they have any readers at all, they will find their way to my blog.

By: Tight Fisted Miser

Tight Fisted Miser — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:54:11 +0000

Another reason is that they might not know their blog only has partial feeds. I didn’t know until earlier this year that my Bank Bonuses site only had partial feeds. If you’re a blogger you should subscribe to your own feed so you’ll be aware of any problems.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:40:08 +0000

Another reason for partial feeds probably is that authors want users to visit their site and see all ads, offers and other assorted money-generating crap.

By: Dividend Growth Investor

Dividend Growth Investor — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:58:17 +0000

The reason why some blogger do partial feed is because there are sites made for adsense that scrape people’s RSS content automatically and publish it on their own sites. Having a partial RSS helps you to identify these situations.