Adam Martin helpfully and subtly pointed out that the RSS feed from this site is only showing summaries of the posts when viewed in certain readers or when viewed raw by Firefox.
Sites that use “click here to read the rest” get on my nerves, too.
I’d only ever proofed it in Sage before. Bluntly, I didn’t even know the “/feed” url existed.
(This is the kind of professional blogger I am: I unpack a tarball, assume that Wordpress isn’t actually using my host to support terrorism, periodically pound my head into the keyboard, and every three months accidentally hit the Publish button bringing you the valuable content that you see before you now.)
For the elite six of you who read this: Let me know if it’s broken or not for your reader - Happy to look into fixing it if it’s annoying anyone.
Sandra Powers said
April 14 2008 @ 2:58 pm
Looks fine to me. I’ve been following you in Google Reader since you told me about this thing, and so far as I remember it’s always displayed full feeds for me.
OnyxRaven said
April 14 2008 @ 3:43 pm
all looks good to me - using Google Reader.
JoeW said
April 14 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Gotcha on bloglines
Cuppycake said
April 14 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Works fine in Google reader for me. And all full feeds.
adam said
April 14 2008 @ 5:07 pm
Just me then. I’ll go sulk in the corner with my non-google readers.
Nick McLaren said
April 14 2008 @ 5:11 pm
Works fine in Google Reader. I WAS using Sage until I decided to test Firefox 3 beta 5, in which the extension doesn’t work.
Brad said
April 14 2008 @ 5:16 pm
Working fine for me…I use Netvibes as my aggregator and it is showing the info fine. And I do believe since I’m #6 comment, that this is all of your readers
Naladini said
April 14 2008 @ 6:43 pm
This site/feed works well with the Outlook 2007 RSS option. I’d use something trendier, but I’d rather not install the extra program.
Moorgard said
April 14 2008 @ 7:49 pm
I don’t use a reader, sir. I click through my list of bookmarks to reach the sites I deem important…
JUST LIKE GOD INTENDED.
Joe Ludwig said
April 14 2008 @ 8:32 pm
It looks fine in Google Reader, but lots of people have said that already.
SirBruce said
April 14 2008 @ 10:11 pm
Jesus, I thought I was one of the few people who actually used Google Reader and everyone else was using something hip and cool to read blogs.
Bruce
Eaglewing said
April 15 2008 @ 2:03 am
Google Reader IS hip and cool.
Darius K. said
April 15 2008 @ 5:48 am
Bloglines is fine. (I just found your blog through Adam’s, actually.)
Victoria said
April 15 2008 @ 5:49 am
As folks have said, Google reader works just fine
Jascha said
April 15 2008 @ 11:34 am
Google Reader - from Firefox in both Windows and Ubuntu linux - working just fine.
Ogrebears said
April 15 2008 @ 11:42 am
ya you blog seem to be working fine in netvibes as well.
Lukas said
April 15 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Looks good to me. Using NetNewsWire… I’m subscribed to the Atom 0.3 Feed though.
Jeff Freeman said
April 18 2008 @ 7:25 pm
Your feed is awesome. You’ve actually got both a full and partial feed. Those seeing partial posts are viewing the “description” block, but the entire post is in your feed (in the “content” block), for each post.
I didn’t realize such a thing was possible, but it’s pretty sweet. It means that users can decide whether they want to see summaries or full posts (without your having to actually provide both at different URIs or the like).
My own feed, to the contrary, sticks the entire post in the “description” block, so it’s full-feeds-for-everyone, whether they want it or not.
I suspect the readers which are not displaying your full posts either have some obscure option to do so, or else aren’t 100% compliant with this crazy feed functionality you have somehow invoked.
Of course, the standard practice in situations such as this calls for you to immediately abandon any advanced features which non-standards-compliant applications fail to accommodate. q.v. IE6, 800×600 screen resolution, color, java versions above 1.1, etc.
(If it were your feed that was behaving in a non-standard fashion, then you’d be off the hook there, but given all the “it works for me” comments here, that seems unlikely.)