TreeHugger Now Has RSS Feeds for Each Category

Any chance of getting an "unabridged" RSS feed? It'd be nice to read more than a paragraph or two in my reader, especially when reading on a mobile device.

Been waiting for this.

While you're at it, why not send the whole post instead of snippets. With how many posts there are a day, many of us don't have the time to click through.

If not all of them, at least the link round ups you could make full posts.

I'm only speaking for myself here, but from what I know, we've had lots of problems with unethical sites stealing our content directly from the feed, republishing it without attribution, and surrounded with google ads. I'm afraid that the abridged feed will have to stay.

There's some options for the full feed. Since you're using TypePad, I'm more than positive someone somewhere has developed a plugin to help fight feed stealing and content copying. I know there are scads of plugins for WordPress that do this and I'm almost certain there are ones for TypePad. There's probably even something that can be cooked up that uses a CAPTCHA or other harvesting methods to prevent these people from stealing the feeds in the first place. As a company, I have no doubt the financial resources are there to also get a plugin developed should one not actually exist.

Now, as a company, you have full legal right to email AdSense DMCA complaints regarding these and can full well get the offending AdSense account's information in order to proceed with a legal measure on this. However, since the sites are what's referred to as MFA or Made For AdSense, they're 100% against Adsense's own AUP so simply reporting them stops them from aggregating content and getting paid.

I fully understand that protecting your content is key but when it hinders your readership, it hinders getting the information out which is important for a site like TH to do. I'm frequently skipping TH's feed in my feed reader simply because I use a feed reader for convenient intake of information (and most snippets just aren't interesting enough to make me jump to the site). While forcing users to visit the site can generate more income and increase readership, full feeds can accomplish the same on both fronts.

Thank you but no thank you; I enjoy the diversity so I'll stick with the lot!
:)

JamesW,

Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I can assure you we have discussed this at length, including some of the points you raise and right now we feel the abridged version is best. That may very well change in the future after more discussion, though it may not.

If things do change, we'll certainly keep you all posted.

Cheers,
Chris