Wow, are you serious with the 24h-thing? Isn't it exactly this blogs are not meant to do? Provide information only to a limited audience/for a limited time?
On another note I tend to unsubscribe to feeds that do not send the complete text. There are really good reasons for not doing so (like ads on the blog to keep the cash flowing) but too many bloggers tend to write just blabber in the first lines without coming to the interesting stuff. If you only read the first 3 lines of a blog-post, how could you judge if it's important to you now/later? Information should be accessible without having to click again/open a new tab.
About the plugins, well, guess there are as much opinions on this matter as there are programmers, huh? :) I prefer cleaner plugins in terms of structure but as you said, it could become quite complex which might scare away non-plugin-authors to have a look at how plugins work. Not quite sure which way is "the best" - if there is any.
Andrew Rickmann
· 1 year ago
As a general rule Christoph I absolutely agree; I don't subscribe where there are no full text feeds and I suspect I would bail if someone routinely time restricted content; however, it may be that there is something to be said for small amounts of content being provided in different ways.
I can see an argument that by time-barring content your are actually restricting it to your loyal readers, and therefore providing them with something that others won't get.
I can't see me actually doing it, but if it were shown that it isn't a bad thing then perhaps I would produce a plugin.
Ronald @ RA Project
· 1 year ago
Andrew,
I'd have to agree with Christoph here and say that the extra complexity might deter those who would use the plugin generator, which ideally I suppose would be those wanting a shortcut.
A possibility could be a structure option and have a basic and advanced option, but that would be much more work on your part.
As far as the 24 hour thing, I'm also with Chris on this. I foresee broken links and more broken links. However, I can see a potential for premium content to be used this way. Post it for 24 hours, and if you want indefinite access to it, pay for it.
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On another note I tend to unsubscribe to feeds that do not send the complete text. There are really good reasons for not doing so (like ads on the blog to keep the cash flowing) but too many bloggers tend to write just blabber in the first lines without coming to the interesting stuff. If you only read the first 3 lines of a blog-post, how could you judge if it's important to you now/later? Information should be accessible without having to click again/open a new tab.
About the plugins, well, guess there are as much opinions on this matter as there are programmers, huh? :) I prefer cleaner plugins in terms of structure but as you said, it could become quite complex which might scare away non-plugin-authors to have a look at how plugins work. Not quite sure which way is "the best" - if there is any.
I can see an argument that by time-barring content your are actually restricting it to your loyal readers, and therefore providing them with something that others won't get.
I can't see me actually doing it, but if it were shown that it isn't a bad thing then perhaps I would produce a plugin.
I'd have to agree with Christoph here and say that the extra complexity might deter those who would use the plugin generator, which ideally I suppose would be those wanting a shortcut.
A possibility could be a structure option and have a basic and advanced option, but that would be much more work on your part.
As far as the 24 hour thing, I'm also with Chris on this. I foresee broken links and more broken links. However, I can see a potential for premium content to be used this way. Post it for 24 hours, and if you want indefinite access to it, pay for it.