April 29, 2003

RSS change

Not to be con­sid­ered a hyp­ocrite, I’ve changed my RSS feed to only show an excerpt and link back to the full arti­cle, ala Zeld­man.

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  • http://www.crystalflame.net/ Richard Soderberg

    Hrm. Well, your RSS feed is indeed stan­dards com­pli­ant; unfor­tu­nately, it’s so bare of con­tent as to go unno­ticed in the hun­dreds I read each day on the bus.

    I’ve read a couple of your arti­cles regard­less, and it occurs to me to ask if you’ve con­sid­ered imple­mented the indi­vid­ual arti­cle tem­plate inside the RSS feed — such that the visual resem­blance between an indi­vid­ual article’s page on your site and an article’s HTML in the RSS feed is sim­i­lar, if not exactly so.

    I’ll try to remem­ber to come back and read up on your arti­cles again some­day — but it’s very hard to dis­tin­guish yet another excerpt-​driven feed from all the rest. Your con­tent is incred­i­bly valu­able, which makes this doubly frus­trat­ing. Per­haps some­day there’ll be a better work­flow for this process; until then, I bid you good luck.