Comments on: Are full RSS feeds now more trouble than they are worth?

By: Mohsin Jalali, ACCA

Mohsin Jalali, ACCA — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:52:32 +0000

Please don’t remove the RSS full feeds — the Facebook and Twitter feeds are proprietary and non-standardised, while I can use your site’s XML feeds (RSS/Atom) in any of the readers I like (in my case it is Google Reader on the go and Feeddemon on the main machine). A feed reader allows me the option to tag and save interesting content, share it in many social networks — while FB and Twitter are just passive consumption.

By: 78.60.169.162

78.60.169.162 — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:25:35 +0000

For serious reading I use RSS exclusively. Twitter and Facebook are “lossy” channels

By: 98.193.165.66

98.193.165.66 — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:12:47 +0000

Please keep the RSS. I love the above commenter’s idea of incorporating ads. I just got into RSS last year (can’t believe I didn’t six years ago) and would miss it terribly. Even with lists Twitter and Facebook are too cluttered and unwieldy; give me my Google Reader!

By: 192.234.2.90

192.234.2.90 — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:06:28 +0000

John Battelle had a couple of interesting posts about RSS in December. I didn’t read all the comments, but there was a forceful response in support of it.

I would probably not look at OJR without the RSS feed. With a reader, I can scan posts from a wide range of sites. It would take too long to click through to all the sites I currently subscribe to.

Link to the blog here: http://battellemedia.com/archives/2010/12/social_editors_and_super_nodes_-_an_appreciation_of_rss

By: Robert Niles

Robert Niles — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:39:36 +0000

To clarify, I don’t control the decisions about RSS feeds on OJR, and given the make-up of our audience here, I wouldn’t suggest shutting down this RSS feed.

But scrapers aren’t exactly hitting up OJR, either. (It that good, or bad? I don’t know….)

By: 152.52.254.94

152.52.254.94 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:01:49 +0000

RSS is primarily used were I work as a format for computer systems to read the content between servers and such.

That computers read it makes it easy to scrape.

Now, that said, all the computer savvy users I know that are also news junkies (a narrow niche I suspect) use RSS readers. That’s how I read OJR along with several other sites. Partial feeds would mean I’d probably read OJR less because there would have to be compelling content in the lead or I’m not clicking thru. But I understand that I’m just one reader, so it may be worth despite what I think .

By: 82.71.57.27

82.71.57.27 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:27:09 +0000

Well, I read your article in Google reader – and shared it to a number of people who follow me….

By: 222.44.41.33

222.44.41.33 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:34:29 +0000

I love reading your posts via Google Reader – please don’t abandon RSS

By: Dave Chase

Dave Chase — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:55:38 +0000

I’ll be interested to hear the outcome of your test. I’ve been surprised that more sophistication hasn’t come to RSS. Seems like rather than fighting the scrapers, if you could have your full RSS feed incorporate ads (or cross promotion) in line, you have just expanded the reach of your site. Couple that with your solution and what’s so bad about having another site scrape content if it can include those items? What am I missing?