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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Claire Said,
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 @ 11:44 am
Thanks for your comment Jen - I signed up for bloglines, though, and signed up for needle book and the pictures showed up! So now I’m not sure what to try, but I’ll look into it. If you know why they’re showing up for me and not for you I’d love more help! I don’t want the bunny to be sad…
Jen Said,
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 @ 11:58 am
hi Claire - thanks for trying! I will try to research this one and find out the answer!
caro Said,
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 @ 12:36 pm
I find truncated posts annoying too. Some folks like to get the official stat log number though. I think that’s why they do it. (So that you HAVE to record a hit in order to read the post.) I find more often than not that I can’t be bothered and I’ll end up unsubscribing from those ones. Yay for full feeds!
pyglet Said,
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 @ 11:18 pm
omg! I know you mean me. I am really appreciative of the mentions about it on my blog and have since not only signed up for bloglines but also subscribed to my own feed (btw-there are no photos and I see what you mean). I then emailed bloglines and have done so five times since without any help for how I can fix it. Do you know how? (help! tech challenged). I am a double offender as I also have the short posts and yes they ARE annoying (I am very sorry and am not trying to get “hits” - am ecstatic that you are reading it by any method) I had thought I had turned it off but I checked tonight and is still short posts for me also. I will email again but..I am REALLY sorry!!
Jen Said,
Wednesday, February 1, 2006 @ 12:04 am
oh please don’t think I am meaning anyone in particular! I honestly am only trying to help as I know some people don’t even know what their own feed looks like in a feed reader. I am new to all this feed stuff too! When I get some time I will research these sorts of issues and see what I can find, then write another post about it.
Jen