Those who tend to prefer full feeds are the readers who feel inconvenienced by an extra click to see a whole page. But the reasons for choosing which feed version to use is based upon your needs as well as the readers.

When I switched to partial feeds (summaries), I actually heard from a lot of people who thanked me. I tend to write very long technical articles and they hated scrolling down long articles in their feeds. And because I write technical articles, people don’t hang out reading everything I write every time. They only want the information that pertains to them, skipping over stuff they aren’t interested in.

Since changing over a year ago, I can count the number of people who have requested full feeds on my two hands. The number of those who are happy with the summaries – I don’t have enough fingers and toes.

Don’t be swayed by those who insist on full feeds and threaten to quit your blog because you don’t have them. Feeds were summaries long before they were full content posts, and both are valid. The idea of feeds to was to get a quick review of updates on your favorite sites.

You pick what works for you and your audience and enjoy the benefits, which ever way it works for you.