An Apology To My RSS Readers - But I Had To Do It | John Battelle's Search Blog

An interesting read (albeit a month old), but it didn't take that long for him to turn the full feed back on - http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/03/ive-turned-full-fe...

I think full feeds is a waste of opportunity for content creators. I don't visit websites that offer full feeds unless to post comments.

However, the problem with short feeds is the poor execution of most of them. It's more complicated than a simple character count. Your RSS feed has to entice me to visit. Your CMS has to support short RSS feeds as a native feature or it won't work.