Full feeds vs. Partial feeds

From the 2007 NotebookJan 6, 2007Technology

Devlounge has posted an awesome article¹ debating the choice to use full feeds on your site or partial feeds on your site. This is a really good read for anyone out there new to generating feeds on their site, or that may be new to feed readers and accessing people’s content via a reader. Check out the article and give it a read.

As for me, I despise feeds that are only of partial content. I subscribe to those feeds in a reader for a reason, and I want the content to be full posts of articles. The article above mentions some great arguments for both sides but still, the partial feed will never see the light of day in my feed reader. I am sure there are several other reasons both good and bad out there, for deciding to use full vs. partial feeds. Either way, those arguments are unlikely to ever convince me to like partial feeds.