So, you folks have been reading my blatherings long enough to see that my norm is at least 2,500 words. Anything less is some pithy snark or a blatant plea for interaction. (Like this one.)
Now that I’ve been picked up by an anthology (Practical Pagans, check them out), I’m harassing even more people than I thought I would. (Also. Hello!)
I know I fussed before about full feeds versus summaries, and at the time, I was in favor of full feeds because my offline RSS reader only saved the summaries. Since, then, I spent a precious $2.99 and picked up the full version of Byline for my iTouch. I parted with my money because the full version will load the entire post on sync if it detects the RSS feed only has summaries (if it doesn’t autodetect, you can manually set it).
Then I really started looking at the RSS clients you folks use when accessing my blog, and saw most of those will do the same. So, there went my one gripe about full feeds versus post excerpts.
My question to you brave and bored folks that are still reading this far: Do I continue posting the entire 2,500 word entries entirely in the feed, or just the 50-100 word excerpts?
You don’t have to comment on this post. (If you’re reading the anthology, you might not be able to. Click on the post title in the anthology to come to my blog.) I’m also harassable by Twitter:@BandedNagini, Facebook (Kerian.Nox), and Google+ (Kerian Nox).
I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo this year. ~rubs hands in malicious glee~ Just to warn you.
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3 responses to “Q: Full Feed or Post Excerpt”
Either, don’t mind. That said for real blogs I nearly always click through to read the words in their home so to speak. I like to see if the design has changed, if there are comments, what new links there might be. I’ve found before too that excerpts can sometimes cause people to write differently as they want to entice the reader to their page and have limited words to do so. Not saying you would, just something I’ve noticed. Either way I’m still reading :)
It’s humorous that I use the excerpt route for my front page, but put full posts in the RSS. So if I went the excerpt route, it would match the front page post for post.
My original gripe came about when I would sync my reader, go offline, get far away from any WiFi point, and find all I had were the first 50 words. Surprise, that’s the norm!
I guess I’m more concerned about swamping the Practical Pagans anthology with Walls Of Texts, really. But that’s currently being discussed, so we’ll see.
So you say I haven’t bored you yet, eh? ~winks~
I think we should go the excerpt route, only because I’ve noticed that PP is drawing folks there. We’re not getting the same activity to the actual blogs now.
So, if you want the activity on your blog, I’m going with excerpt.