Comments on: Okay, I Need Your Opinion

By: Frugal

Frugal — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:05:22 +0000

I like your old way of using summary. It’s just better for scanning.

By: bluntmoney

bluntmoney — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:31:54 +0000

Unless the articles are hugely long, I prefer not having to click to read more. So my vote is that I like it this way. (Clicking is especially annoying for short articles, because you think there’s going to be more and sometimes you click and there’s a sentence or two.)

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:38:09 +0000

I’m fine with using the ‘more’ tag to keep the front page clean. However, I’m with Flexo… If someone breaks in the middle of a sentence or thought, I pass on by. In those cases it’s pretty obvious that people are just doing it to artificially increase their pageviews for some reason.

I generally try not to use it unless I have three or more paragraphs in an article. In such cases, I put it after the first one. Granted, when I write blog articles, I tend keep the paragraphs intentionally short to increase scannability.

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:38:50 +0000

Oh, THIS is what your blog looks like!

But seriously, try it for a while. If you get down to 23 readers, you’ll know it was a mistake.

I usually visit links based on title in bloglines. But my readers get the whole article, so they really don’t have to visit my site if they don’t want to.

By: WearyTraveler

WearyTraveler — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:35:06 +0000

I like the summaries and will open the entire article in a new window if it interests me. Just my 2 cents…

By: JLP

JLP — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:21:15 +0000

udandi,

If you click on an entry in a RSS reader, it should take you to the page for that entry, which would be the full entry with comments and all.

What I’m referring to is when you land on the home page of my blog, with all the current postings. And, since there really isn’t a consensus, I’m going to stick to my old way of doing it with the exception of saving the the “read more” feature for long posts.

I think this will make my front page cleaner-looking.

By: udandi

udandi — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:09:28 +0000

I subscribe to your RSS feed and keep track of it through Bloglines, if I’m enticed to click from that summary, I want to read the full entry, not make a second click to get to the content.

Same for if I read a summary of any blog entry off pfblogs.org. I want to make one click and get to the full entry, especially if I have to wait for the page to load, because often the entries load after the advertisements.

By: Clayton Hynfield

Clayton Hynfield — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:02:06 +0000

I apologize for beating a dead and off-topic horse, but I agree on the full-content feed deal. I read both Get Rich Slowly and I Will Teach You To Be Rich in my news reader, opening an article in the browser only if it links to several other things that I'd like to open in tabs. I make only a couple of exceptions to this general rule, usually for aesthetic reasons.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:08:40 +0000

I like the new version – I don’t like to have to click a link to read the rest of the article.

By: BD

BD — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:41:44 +0000

You haven’t started publishing full RSS feeds yet, have you? I am always annoyed by having to click through – and yet, as you’ll note if you go through your comment records, I have clicked through to comment quite a few times. Usually, I comment on most of the articles I read on your site. I just don’t read most of them because you don’t publish full feeds!