I can’t see your pictures!
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I have recently taken it upon myself to leave a comment letting my favourite crafty bloggers know if I can’t see their photos on Bloglines - see my previous post about feeds, syndication etc if you are not familiar with the awesome Bloglines.
I personally find it quite annoying to be reading a post in Bloglines and the author is obviously talking about a photo that I can’t see. If I am interested enough I will visit the blog directly but sometimes I just don’t bother and occasionally I get tired of it and cancel my subscription to their content, so maybe you are losing readers! That would be sad.
You know, it’s a bit like when you have some spinach stuck to your teeth and nobody tells you. Personally I’d much rather know about something like that so that I can fix it! So I decided to let people know via their comments field, hoping that I am not seen as a nuisance or a nag. 
Often the person is quite surprised and goes off and sorts the problem out. My best advice? Subscribe to your own feed in a few of the more popular feed readers so that you know what your feed looks like when it comes out the other end.
edited to add: While I’m on the subject… another pet peeve is those blog feeds that only give me a snippet of content. I get the title and a sentence or two and then have to visit the blog itself to read the rest. It kind of defeats the purpose of a feedreader as far as I’m concerned. Again, maybe you don’t know this is happening. Maybe you like it like this? Either way, I’m reading your blog so making me visit the actual blog (from the feedreader) to finish reading a post doesn’t make much sense to me.
As always, I’m happy to hear your thoughts on this so leave me a comment if you like.
edited again to add:
Some people have been wondering why pictures in their own feed show up to them, yet I can’t see them. And why are truncated posts showing when it seems they have specified full posts, with pics. I am only new to feeds etc myself. When I get some more time I will research these sorts of issues and see what I can find, then write another post about it. If anyone else has this info, please share!
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