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I love what they've done to blogs.msdn.com

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Actually, i really don't.  However, if you do like it please let me know.  Seriously, if there is anything good about it tell me so I can get a balanced view of the pros/cons of this.  Thanks!

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  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    I use an RSS reader to read blogs from msdn.com and I would say I am pretty satisfied. The only complaint I have is that the feed does not show the complete article. Sometimes I need to visit the website to see if the article is actually interesting.
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    The item description shows up as a tooltip in my browser, so I'd actually prefer it to be short and summary-like: that's how I decide whether to read the referenced article properly. Being devoid of formatting and abbreviated is an improvement :-)
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    Well I don't like it. The old style page with full articles and full list of bloggers in the same page should be atleast an option.
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    My ISP realy love how blogs.msnd.com orginised.
    I've to check over 600 RSS URLs to get full content of blogs and I pay real money from my pocket for traffic !
    Sure "302 Not Modified" helps a few - but once there are one additional post or edit to existing one - I've to redownload last 15-20 items :-(

    ISPs love RSS !! ;-)
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    I liked the old way much better. The only time I ever actually went to a personal blog site was to read the comments. Can we get the full-length articles back? Or at least have another page that shows them in full?
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    The old look was so much better. I agree with sebmol, I would keep uptodate entirely from the main page.
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    msdn rss size is too large, they might make a summary for low speed internet conneciton users. but Why not both?

    I prefer to have both RSS url, so we switch from summary to full articles.
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    Currently I'm not using "my own" computer, so I do not like to idea of setting any rss readers on the machine. I have been relying on the http://blogs.msdn.com to fill my needs. Does not work anymore, since it is only showing small snippets of the entries and reading them one-by-one, clicking for each entry would take forever.

  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    ... but I can somewhat understand it.

    The thing I hate most, more than the fact that only a short snippet of each post is shown in the aggregate blog, is that all formatting is lost. Please, at least keep the linebreaks, italic/bold tags and UL/LI tags. You often have to click the link just to make the snippet sensible.

    I understand the need to cut down the traffic. But can't that be done in a slightly less dramatic way? I realize the setting of showing 50 entries in the 'firehose feed' already wasn't enough to keep up with the posting rate, and increasing it would have made the bandwidth problem worse. But can't that problem be solved in other ways?

    If you take a look at how a similar problem is solved in mailing lists: make a 'digest': a set of all postings made in a certain N hour period; format it once and save it, never modify it. When serving it, you only need to serve that preformatted file. Such a digest file can have its attributes set to be cachable, so clients don't need to ask for it so often (assuming they don't bypass the cache). Note that this (obviously) means aggregating the posts from, e.g. 1 day, from midnight to midnight, and not aggregating the posts from 'the last 24 hours'; the latter is not cachable.


  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    Thanks all. Keep it coming. I'll aggregate it at the end of the week and send this off to the powers that be.
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    I was checking blogs.msdn.com earlier 4 times a day. Now, because of the changes I am almost thinking to abandon it!
    Old way I could quickly find what I am interested in and what not.
    Please, give back old blogs!!!
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    Not as good as it once was. All the posts are now "genericized" and no longer stand out.
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
    I don't mind it. I always use the RSS to find out what I want to read, and then I go to the post's orginal home anyway since I want to see what else that person has been talking about. I find that it's the only way I can keep all these blog authors straight.

    Basically all I do is open the link to he blog into its own tab as I go, and its not much different than getting the whole feed right then and there.
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2004
    I hate the new format of clipping the posts! I hate clicking on every other link to Read More.

    On the bright side, I end up reading less and judging the post on the first few lines .. could be dangerous to judge a post by few lines .. like judging a book by it cover :)
  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2004
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    September 13, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2004
    I don't like it at all.

    I used to get all blogs and use Outlook/Lookout to search through all the history of the blogs back to 1/22/04. Now I have to subscribe individually to get the same functionality.

    I do understand that there was huge cost involved. But I know that there's very little chance of me picking up new bloggers now because the overall feed has become much less useful.
  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2004
    Any more feedback? I'm goign to be sending this information off soon. Thanks!
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    May 29, 2009
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