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RSS feed spoiled for good?
Authored by: luomat on Jun 03, '06 05:38:10AM

"Spoiled" is a rather exaggerated word. (Perhaps 'tainted' would be a more appropriate :-)

I suspect a lot of people started using RSS because they were ad-free ways of getting information from websites. Well, like the rest of the web, it doesn't come free to create and maintain.

IF the feeds were abbreviated down to 1 or 2 lines, that would make them spoiled. If the feeds were just headlines (i.e. forcing you to go to the site to read them at all) then I would call them spoiled.

I am disappointed, however, that the feeds have ads and are not full-text.

Having full text feeds (which were thus saved in my reader and available for Spotlight or at least searching in my RSS reader) would be much better than the current situation, where I usually get most but not all of the article, meaning that I then have to go to the site to read the rest of the article (often only another line or paragraph).

This is particularly bothersome given that I read the feeds on my cell phone, and loading the site is rather painful.

The new feeds seem to be longer, but still not full text. I wish they were, especially now that there are ads.



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