Full RSS Feeds

[MRGTB]

Does anybody know of any sites that offer full RSS Feeds for free. By this I mean the full story, not only part of it.

If you do post the links below.

[Joe Gronlund]

I wouldnt mind finding some Full RSS Feeds myself

[Floris]

The whole point of rss feeds is to get a quick overview of new content - and to generate more traffic to the site, newsfeeders will inform the end user who goes to check out the site. vb has the option to set the amount of characters/limit to the rss it produces. I hope more sites will do this in the future. Allthough, there are sites who then complain their full content is being stolen - even though they provide it 100% to the public, through rss.

[MRGTB]

Not really Floris, there are many discussions taking place on the internet right now about both partial and full RSS feeds if you search Google about it. Nobody ever said RSS was specifically only for partial feeds only, RSS was designed to bring content from one site to another - be it partial or full content. So I don't really agree with you on that one. Things move on, and in the future more and more full feeds will start becoming the norm to get more people to suscribe to there feeds with a link back to their site.

If sites do offer full RSS feeds, it not stealing at all in my view. That's there choice to offer full feeds freely to use with a link back to there site of course. So they have no right to moan about stealing there content at all. Because you can't even get the full content unless they offer it in the first place openly via RSS.

[filburt1]

A common technique (read: what Gizmodo does) is to offer two types of feeds: headlines/previews only ad-free with headlines with full articles with ads. Google is doing a private beta of ads inside feeds, although when you're generating the feed server-side, I have no idea how that works.

On my site, I rewrote the entire RSS engine. In some technical respects, it's less powerful than the vBulletin engine, but I have complete control over it including formatting, arrangement, etc. I do provide full post contents without ads. At the moment, I'm trying to only show ads to guests and see how that works out given I found out mostly guests view my ads.

My engine also can make feeds for individual forums and threads. It uses the domxml library for PHP 4, and DOM for PHP 5.

I never use RSS myself as an end-user, but some people subscribe to my feed, so I provide it.

[MRGTB]

Well, I subscribe to the BBC for RSS right now after setting it up today. Mainly becuase the BBC are giving me about 100 -200+ RSS feeds per day. There not full content, but there well formated though. And some very interesting stories do come through from the UK News site which is very up-to date.

I still run general discussion boards. But the idea is to make full use of the RSS to boost Google Adsence hits from guests without much effort required in adding tons of content. While still keeping a few general discussion boards for general chat etc.

One thing I am seeing coming through, is sites charging a set monthly fee for full RSS feeds. I can see that trend picking up in the future as a way to earn extra income through RSS full feeds. But sites charging would have to be seen offering quite a lot of new content every day though.