To follow blogs everchanging content, just subscribe to their feed. Look for the orange RSS icon or anywhere that’s lighting subscribe to me. So now there’s a petition and a grasping post by Yvonne for why you should go for full feed. Delivering full content for feedreaders. But here I would rather tell why I would do partial. Just a few lines of that blog’s post. Sorry Yvonne I think I’ve just posted this so that I wouldn’t blush to see such a long comment of mine, so that’s why it’s here.
Delurking in process.
Why I wouldn’t post comments? Probably I just post comments in only 10 to 20 blogs because actually I’ve not subscribed to their full feed and there I go. For many blogs I read that have got the full feed on, I would just read the content directly from my feedreader and there I would go away. So if only they would have gone for partial, I would read just the very first lines, get curious and there I go for the full read on the blog and post that comment. Partial is actually what intrigues me. I take every post content as worthwhile so I would feel unsatistied after reading just some lines of it. I might be missing something. I would be there and delurk myself when it’s partial.
Full is for content providers.
What would encourage me in subscribing to a full feed? Resourceful content. There where the blogger has said everything about that thing to do or how this thing works. There where I would have nothing to add. That’s why I think full is for those type of blog where the author has told everything so that I’ve got nothing to add. Blogs like Techcrunch, Engadget, LifeHacker, etc. Partial is for bloggers who aren’t working to provide content. Where I might still have something to say or ask.
A chance for every blog
There’s a list of blogs in my feedreader but would I visit everyone? No. If by mere chance I just fell on something and it’s there in full, I would read and leave away without giving the chance to myself for other blogs. If only that was in partial, just by looking at the title and reading the first few lines I would know that this has got to do with things I read everytime, put it aside and wander for others : “out of my usual read”. It’s just for me not to get pulled back in reading the same and same type of content. Full would obliged me to read that post to its end because eventually I would read it but partial would then provide that one peep to know that something out of my daily read : ok I’ll give it a try. It’s a chance for every blog I subscribe to.
Full or partial : you side for which? For those that would go for full, just read Yvonne’s post to know why to continue to do so then for those who get on with partial? Actually why do you do so? Would you tell me?
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I think I can see both sides of the story here. There are definitely pros and cons on both sides, it just depends on the person.
And me? I don’t even tend to use my readers that often, perhaps once a week when I’m too lazy to open Firefox. I prefer to just visit the blogs I like to read.
Thanks for providing the other side of the story Hans
I’ll post a more in-depth REBUTTAL comment tomorrow
@ nyssa
I hope wordpress won’t take out the partial if everybody sign that petition.
Hey nyssa, what feedreader do you use? I’m also without one, infact I use Flock : it does my feedreader, my photouploader and so many loader. Yeah Flock really works hard for me. How about you?
yeah that’s why I also didn’t opt for a full-fledged RSS reader so that I can visit blogs.
@ yvonne
Just look for me, we’re always doing things differently. Blogroll, etc.
ok let’s fight for our cause.
Hans, I was using Flock as well to manage practically everything (feedreader, Flickr, Blogging) but it was causing me a couple of problems.
I’ve got RSSowl installed at the moment but it rarely sees the day of light.
I do like to visit blogs, especially blogs that look decent.
Why have a pretty blog if no one is going to look at it?
Alright, I’m here now Hans *sharpens sniper rifle*
Once again, we do things differently. I need to read an entire post before I decide whether or not I like it enough to leave my newsreader, visit the site and leave a comment. Also, every blog I read, I subscribe to. Honestly, I’d go crazy if I had to manually visit even ten blogs to see whether or not they’d updated? Different strokes, yet again …
Yes, some people are incapable of leaving their newsreaders. Some just don’t have the time. But I still think giving people full feeds gives them MORE INCENTIVE to visit your site, than partial feeds.
Full feeds = longer = more chance to impress reader to leave comment.
Partial feeds = shorter = more likely to leave reader feeling underwhelmed = less likely for them to visit your live site.
That’s just how I do things, though. But I’ll go out on a limb and say that full feeds are preferred by 99.999% of feedreaders, and if you want to leave your readers feeling happy enough to take the time to leave a comment, you’d better give them what they want
@ nyssa
yo, what problems? gotta tell me, mine is fine
yeah design is a bit like the bait, isn’t that?
hey your design looks cool, minimalist(I like minimalist) and the light blend of black and white. No one gonna look at it hein? wait I’m coming there
@ yvonne
ahh, your bullet got me down, mayday mayday. That’s the wrath of Yvonne. Hey Yvonne I emptied my charge up there
nothing to add more. Isn’t anybody there to help me : going for partial ;(
wooo that’s a shot
Oh, it was actually fine for a while but I noticed everything started freezing up. I upgraded my PC cause I just thought I was low on the RAM side of things, but still didn’t fix it.
I uninstalled Flock and wham! Nothing was lagging anymore.
Basically, just a lag problem. It’s probably just my computer doesn’t like Flock 
@ nyssa
hey nyssa were you running the latest Flock because actually the previous ones were really buggy man.
Yeah that’s for sure Flock consumes resources/memory and that’s why everything slowed down for your PC. When I give it a click, yeah for sure it has to eat some RAM to pull itself.
Hey actually how much do you have : RAM? :clown: any idea of getting your PC faster?
=) yeah the emoticons rock
hmmm, blogosphere strategies!
still looking for the best ways to promote ur blog n gain more traffic, huh!?!
why is there not an option where u can let the user choose whether he/she wants full or partial!?!
i think that it should not matter if some visitors don’t comment or visit bcoz they have full feed…this is the net and there are no fixed rules as to how one should behave…it’s free!
partial feed is a bit like those blogpages with moderated comments…it makes the visitor feel like less valued at times even though these actions are done for a good reason…well, zats wat i think
@ waz
:sweat: , yeah you’re right =) that’s a thumb rule : putting people’s choice before all. But you see, then it’s the blogger who has to make this difficult choice(for the time being - under our wordpress options panel) : choosing what is good or bad for his visitors. For me, I don’t think that’s a question of traffic. :grinnod: or even commenting. Above I just said why I sided for partial because I had to make a choice and there at Yvonne’s place, she said why she’s has opted for the full one.
That’s why I posted this post : whether I’m making the right choice in getting partial, in being the 0.0001%
who’s siding for it.
That’s a difficult thing : choosing for others. Then feeding them is the same, what to go for
Well, Hans, Flock uses roughly the same resources as Firefox does and Firefox runs fine.
At the moment, I’ve got 1gig (before when I had Flock, I had 512mb). And there’s no plans on more RAM or anything else as I can’t be spending money right now.
But I’ll install Flock again and see how it goes, for sure. I can’t remember which version I was using. =|
@ nyssa
No I suppose Flock eats more because of the slick and fine gradient it uses for its interface.
Gotta try it Nyssa else you would be missing lots of things. Hey Nyssa for some times I’ve tried things to speed up my pc. I’ve tried bbean for a minimalist interface(I think it consumes less resource than explorer.exe as a shell) and have been using programs light on resources like winamp for playing music, etc.