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Can you tell me why? I’m always interested in hearing from people with different opinions.
Well, I really get your point. If I would use RSS mainly for it's newspaper-like newsreader function, excerpts would indeed be the last thing I want. Just give me the full article, in that case. I foresee another function for RSS. I call it Really Social Sites, and what I do with it is more like a timeline. A timeline that you see at regular social media. My site offers it's own feed to the web, but it also has a rea…
It’s something I also do I’d say 70% of the time. Some sites are just too enjoyable to browse and I prefer to read there.
Others are not so great (bad typography and bad colors can make the reading experience very unpleasant) and I read on my RSS in those cases.
Which is why I think full content in rss feeds should be the way to go. It allows me to chose how to consume the content.
If you only serve excerpts I have no other option but to read on the site even if the reading experience is terrible.
Maybe the solution here is to have two feeds?