RSS Title Length

January 25, 2007 12:00 PM

Make "titles" in MetaTalk RSS feed longer? (more)
posted by staggernation to Feature Requests at 12:00 PM (8 comments total)

The MetaTalk RSS feed uses the first 50 characters of each post as its title. In a reader that displays only titles until you click on an item, this means you have to click on most of them to get any idea what they're about ("Okay, I realize this may seem ridiculous and silly but..."; "Did anyone else get an email yesterday from..."). 100 characters would give more context and make this a more usable way to read MetaTalk.
posted by staggernation at 12:01 PM on January 25, 2007

I'm adding real titles later today.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:01 PM on January 25, 2007

Thanks!
posted by staggernation at 12:02 PM on January 25, 2007

Now, instead of 25% useful titles, you'll get 1% useful titles because people will think they're hidden easter egg titles.
posted by Plutor at 12:29 PM on January 25, 2007

Anything that results in better HTML titles (i.e. the thing at the top of the browser and the thing that shows up for google results) than "Comments on 13543" will be very warmly welcomed by me.
posted by Rhomboid at 12:39 PM on January 25, 2007

Good idea. This thread was "Make "titles" in MetaTalk RSS feed longe..."
posted by danb at 12:48 PM on January 25, 2007

This thread was "Make "titles" in MetaTalk RSS feed longe..."

"Hi, I'm Gracie. That's short for Grace."
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 1:45 PM on January 25, 2007

Anyone else read that as "Make titties in Meta Talk"?
posted by ColdChef at 3:11 PM on January 25, 2007