“Interesting aspects… Maybe I should update my feed ;) What do you think?” No, leave it as excerpts! Oh shucks, now three other people are going to vote yes. :)

Paul D

Cool, as far as I remember my comment, I’m always in the first/biggest group. I’m quite average :-) I think you can let your feed as it is. Fullfeeds make sense for sites with a faster frequence of publication. I don’t mind opening this page every two weeks :-)

Martin Schneider

How do you make such beautiful graphs?

Pat

Indeed, very nice graphs — how, how, how? I prefer(ed?) excerpts… But now I’m undecided. Technical a full article is wrong. It should be a “description” in the XML file. But most writers doesn’t know (or use) the technique of the “Inverted pyramid” (Link That’s possibly why most excerpts are useless.

Stefan

Your excerpts are normally descriptive enough so that I know if I want to come to the site or not (I come to the site 99% of the time). If I was coming new to the site, I would prefer the option of choosing full/excerpt, but as an existing reader everything’s fine the way it is. It’s good to get out of Vienna every now and then.

Cas

I like full feeds more than those containing only excerpts for the various reasons mentioned above, e.g. searchability, offline reading in the lunch break etc. If the site’s well designed (or readable at least) I’ll read the text there, though (Das Auge isst halt mit ;)).

Julian

Hey, nice job with the filerun icon!

Johan

Cool looking charts :)

Chris McElligott

Thank you guys — I used Illustrator’s graph tool to create those charts. If you’re interested I could write some sort of tutorial.

Wolfgang

Very interesting reading. Gives an interesting insight into RSS use. Also excellent charts, the design of this site alone makes it worthwhile visiting in a browser rather than my RSS app. A tutorial would be greatly appreciated.

Umeet D

Those graphs look very nice indeed. A tutorial would be great, but I can of course find out how to do it myself. Greets Wouter

Wouter Postma

Danke für diese Ausführliche Statistik. Leider müsste man so eine aber für jede Seite wohl neu anlegen. Denn deine Zielgrupe sind ja viele Macianer, nicht wahr? Ich wüsste mal gerne, wie bei dir der prozentuale Anteil der Windows-Benutzer aussieht.

Martin Labuschin

If you want to do one w/ full articles, why not have two versions of the feed? One with excerpts and the other with the full article. Or maybe that’s not possible ^^;; I haven’t played around w/ RSS yet.

Mike Wagner

Mike, sure it is possible. Both, excerpt and hole article are loaded from a database. So it is almost the same.

Martin Labuschin

I’m just getting into RSS for my organization so this is useful information. However, now I’m wondering how the demographic of your audience compares to the general public in how are feeds used and what is preferred. I do have a question concerning your data: Are you able to correlate the number of subscribed feeds to the preference for excerpts or for full articles? Thanks for sharing a very interesting survey. -----

Steve