New Rollup Feature
April 5th, 2004A few feature at Rollup allows the creator to determine the number of characters for each post. From the weblog:
“Especially if you are sharing your rollup with an audience this is a good way to respect your sources by encouraging people to click through to read the rest of the post.”
Agreed. Some people don’t want the full text of their feed to be displayed elsewhere. I couldn’t care less, but for some people, this is an issue (Google Adwords money to make, hits count for some people, etc). This has never been an issue for Blogdigger Groups or Feedpapers (and now I guess Kinja) because they default to a certain number of characters (If I remember correctly). I’m glad that this choice is available on Rollup, which continues to impress me, BTW.