Alex King: “Remember in the early days of the web when newspapers wouldn’t put their content online? Same thing here… eventually enough quality content will be in full content feeds and the partial feed folks will have to play along or they will become irrelevant.”
Hell, yes! I was trying to put my finger on the real motive why I dislike partial feeds, and Alex’s post pretty much nailed it. There’s so much content in RSS/Atom nowadays that I’m spending far more time in my aggregator than in my web browser (excluding the time I spend developing web apps). If you publish a partial feed, you are forcing me to first look at a snippet in the aggregator and then open the browser (or a new browser tab in NetNewsWire, which is not that much different). This makes my news reading much slower and, in the end, it sucks.
The RSS web is going to be as relevant as the HTML web. For us early adopters, it already is more relevant. Get over it and start providing full feeds.
Ugo: why do I see your partial feeds in my NNW, then?
My RSS 2.0 feed (http://agylen.com/feed/) has both a “description” element which contains a textual excerpt and a “content:encoded” element which contains the whole entry. I am using NNW myself to check my feed and it always shows me the latter. What URL are you using?
Funny, recycling NNW and refreshing the feeds somehow helped.