I am curious – for those of you out there reading this site via bloglines or the feed reader of your choice (mine is NewsGatorOnline) – does it bother you that I added the photos to my feed? Does it slow the feed reader down, slowing you down, causing you to just skip reading altogether?
I’m just trying to figure out what works best for the end user. While I primarily gear the site towards my needs and interests – I mean, it is a personal site after all – I like to make sure it is working for you.
I would be nothing without you. You? You mean thw world to me.
Now, be nice, stop blurking and leave a comment. *grin*
26 replies on “Tell Me, Tell Me, Tell Me…”
I prefer the photos in the feed!
The only problem (this is MY issue) is that sometimes I don’t open the page up to comment because I can look at everything without it (a lot of that is how much free time I have at the time). 😉
I personally prefer the photos in the feed as well. 🙂
I agree, leave the pics in the feed. Sometimes that’s the only way I would have time to see them, and I enjoy seeing them! 🙂
Photos in the feed is working fine for me. I usually start reading off the feed while waiting for the web page to open, and it’s nice to see the pictures on the feed too.
I use Feed Demon and I have no idea what you’re talking about!
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I use Bloglines and have no problems with the photos.
I have no idea what you are talking about either, my “geekiness” only goes so far these days. I pop over here via my blogs “blogrolling” links.
It’s working great for me! I use bloglines..
The photos look nice and came through fine on Bloglines for me. 🙂
Pictures shouldn’t slow me down……….plus, you’re worth a little patience, should it be required.
the Google reader picks it up fine and I love your photos so yes, please keep them.
I like photos in the feed. (I use Bloglines, btw.)
I use NewzCrawler, and do I REALLY mean thw (sic) world to you? 😉
I’m also starting to like the Feedburner feed, with the extra links.
i use newsgator and have not noticed any unusual slowness due to pictures. please keep being yourself!
Of course you mean thw world to me. All of you. I would be nothing without you. (By the way, it drives me batty when I type faster than the keyboard and that sort of thing happens. Oops!)
Thanks for the feedback! Jeanie, I bet Feeddemon stops pictures from loading, so that is why you don’t see them.
I appreciate the photos in Bloglines.
BLURK! -pardon moi!
Since you always seem to post with the photo immediately afterwards, I could live without the photos themselves. Plus I get your photos from my flickr feed. 🙂 Just my 2c.
Like Lisa said, you do tend to post the same pictures immediately afterward, so it does seem superfluous. I’m a Bloglines user, and I’ve switched your feed so that entries default to the collapsed position. Click the title and they open up. I usually ignore the Flickr ones.
I’ve actually been trying to do that a lot less, especially now that I have the new camera phone and it makes it so much easier to post photos to Flickr on the fly. Those don’t normally make it to the blog unless it is something special.
Actually – they were cross posting to the blog for a little while – my Flickr e-mail address to post to Flickr only wasn’t working for some reason – but Flickr + blog was. Crazy. It seems to be ok now though, so that shouldn’t happen anymore.
Works for me. 🙂
I use bloglines, and it works just fine for me!!
I experience no problems with the pictures – please keep them. I enjoy them.
Your photos are beautiful and do not slow me down at all.
I visit your blog every day, despite not being interested in knitting! Bwahaha! I don’t use RSS though – I just bookmark you 😉
I don’t use feeds at all. It’s too much work for me to subscribe to blogs when I could just go to the page whenever I think about it. Besides, I have all day…what’s my rush? So, do whatever you want with it! hehe
I much prefer photos in the feed. It doesn’t slow down bloglines at all.