RSS Changes: The Full Feed Experiment

[Jason Lee]

This is great news!
Having an always connected ppc phone I usually just go to the site and not use rss.
When I do use rss is when I know I am not going to be connected such as flights or road trips to nowhere. With out the full post in the rss feed it just gets irritating because I cannot connect and read the rest of the post.
So this is wonderful for me!

[Jason Lee]

This is great news!
Having an always connected ppc phone I usually just go to the site and not use rss.
When I do use rss is when I know I am not going to be connected such as flights or road trips to nowhere. With out the full post in the rss feed it just gets irritating because I cannot connect and read the rest of the post.
So this is wonderful for me!

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by ianbjor

One thing I have seen other sites do is offer the full content feeds to subscribers only. That way they can protect a revenue stream for people unwilling to pay, but subscribers get the bonus of no ads in their full-content feed.

Yes, that's definitely something we're looking at doing, and in fact we might make an ad-free, full-text feed for subscribers.

[galt]

Another appreciative RSS feed reader here. It caught me by surprise because while reading my PPCT feed I first read a later article (before I saw this one) that contained an image of the Hermes in it and it was shockingly beautiful to see the a full PPCT article and image in my feed reader. Hope this still works out for PPCT revenue wise.

[Perry Reed]

As a big RSS user, I'm very glad to see you all try this. I think RSS ads are probably the best way to go.

(HINT: For those of us using the RSS feed, click on the ads every now and then!)

[ezrabenun]

This is great! now I can read the whole story while i'm in the subway.
YOU SHOULD NOTE: that a lot of us are generating clicks to the website by reading these posts and fowarding them to friends and family.
I HOPE YOU CONTINUE THIS SYSTEM!!
Ezra

[nz0eBoy]

Thanks for this Jason. Although to be honest I was expecting it to be part of the subscription - I would have even paid more for it as PPCT, SPT and DMT are some of the only sites I now visit outside of my RSS Reader.

I hope the ad thing works out for you, but I will understand if you have to go back to the way things were.

Keep up the excellent work.

[etheriau]

Originally Posted by Jason Lee

When I do use rss is when I know I am not going to be connected such as flights or road trips to nowhere. With out the full post in the rss feed it just gets irritating because I cannot connect and read the rest of the post.

I totally agree with how irritating this could be, and since there are so many feeds that do not give you the full content, I wrote an aggregator that downloads the articles at the same time. It currently runs on a desktop and syncs to a Pocket PC, if you want0.

If you have other feeds that aren't so generous, you might want to give it a whirl. Its called ReallySimpleSnagger, its free, and its at https://www.eyt.ca/Software/ReallySimpleSnagger/ . Enjoy.


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[Jason Dunn]

For those monitoring this thread and interested in this issue, here's a good example of the danger of full feeds:

http://www.technologyowl.com/i27439-c134

This is a scummy scraper site, with no content of their own, using our full content and displaying their ads next to it. Not very nice is it? And there's no way for us to block it, because we want external sites to use our feeds - just not in this way (commercially). So far this month TechnologyOwl has sent us a whopping 32 visitors. :roll:

[Jason Lee]

sigh... always some one out there trying to ruin a good thing.