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No summaries
Posted on December 21st, 2005 by Daniel
Hi, Planet Gentoo (and Gentoo Universe). Pretty please, if you’re syndicated here, could you disable summaries in your blogs for the Planet? Just make the rss feed include the whole article. That way, those of us who read the Planet (or Universe) can actually benifit from your blog entries, instead of seeing a sentence and a …
Why? Why not just click on the title like everyone else? Is that so much hard work?
Personally I actually prefer short summaries, especially for the really long blog posts. It allows me to quickly read through what everyones up to, then read the ones I want to in details without having to hit page-down 10 times just because someone decided to write an essay in their weblog.
Because some of us use RSS readers, not web browsers, to follow blogs and planets.
omg dude just click the link
Personally, I agree with dang, I don’t have time to browse to everyone’s site to read what they are doing, and sometimes those post titles, and the summary have nothing at all to do with the content of the post, I tend to just skip over anyone who doesn’t do a full post, which is sad, but true. Yes, I am missing out on some people’s awesome work, but that is how life goes sometimes. It isn’t about it being hard to click on the link, it is about saving time, switching workflow.
I agree with dang.
To those saying “just click the link,” I say that context switches are expensive
O-function of a blog feed:
For N blogs everyone get’s atleast M visitors, for each visitor they will have to clink the link. That’s N*M link clicks. If every blog just changed to not using summaries, that’s only N changes required and reduces the total work required by the reader.
Write an excerpt, get blogging software that displays both the summary and the full post.
Let the reader decide.
The real problem is what the software puts into the rss feed. That’s all the planet sees, and you don’t have a choice at that point, as I understand the feed. If I’m reading their blogs on their blogs, that’s different, but I’m reading the planet.