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Macworld, now with 100 percent more MacUser

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Posted 24 November 2008 - 12:28 PM

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Posted 24 November 2008 - 12:36 PM

This article doesn't make any sense as a MacWorld article. I'm sure it makes a little more sense if you actually read it on the MacUser blog.
I wish MacWorld re-enable the MacCentral shortcut to get to the news page. Muscle memory and all that.
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 01:05 PM

(... "shortcut to get to the news page.")
I just have my link set up as macworld.com/news.html. I prefer the old format of listing all the news in one column.
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 01:12 PM

Ach! And there I was hoping there would be less stuff about iPhones & ipods... :-(
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 03:18 PM

Are there plans to expand the RSS feed? I used to be able to get the full article in my feed and now it is just a truncated headline. It is disappointing if it is going to stay this way.
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 03:27 PM

I miss the old, thick MacUser magazine from the early 1990s.
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 03:27 PM

It sucks that the RSS feed is no longer the full article. That's enough to make me remove it from my list of sites to keep up with. In this day and age, I cannot understand why sites cannot provide full RSS feeds to their postings. Until MacUser changes this new policy, I'm no longer a reader.
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 04:01 PM

Psst... if you only want to see Mac stuff, bookmark this one:

http://www.macworld....se.html?cat=201

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Posted 24 November 2008 - 05:10 PM

So long macuser domain...
I just deleted you from NNW and added the new one.
Like the parrot said when the fire drove him out of the bar and into the church, "Same crowd... different building."
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 05:38 PM

BTW, we're talking about ways to make the RSS feed more useful.

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Posted 24 November 2008 - 05:56 PM

As Jason says, we're looking at improving the RSS feeds. We're fans of full content feeds, obviously, but we also need to balance that with generating revenue and preventing ill-intentioned folks from scraping our feeds and distributing our content for their own gain. We're not doing it to be mean or to inconvenience our readers, so we hope you'll bear with us while we investigate our options.

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Posted 24 November 2008 - 07:58 PM

What was the motivation for the move? I'll keep up with the stories regardless of what the URL is, but macuser.com was some homely.
Also, I know have to sign in with my Macworld ID, rather than the TypeKey one I had grown to love. Oh well! Just keep the news, humor, good writing and free stuff and I'll keep reading!
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 07:59 PM

Wow, me fail English. What happened to the Preview link?
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Posted 24 November 2008 - 09:37 PM

I'm happy to know the staff is looking at improving the RSS feed, and I'm puzzled that it took going live with the new one to realize what a step backwards it was. I do understand the issues at play, though. Hint: plenty of full-content feeds contain ads...
At a minimum, I'd like to see the post author name returned to the feed, even if the full content isn't restored. I'm more likely to read posts by some MacUser writers than others, and if I have to click into a headline to find out who wrote the story, I'll likely stop reading altogether.
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