I think it is great that it is kept simple. I go to the website to read the posts anyway, and because the essays do not come very frequently, this causes me no problems. Of course, you could include the entire text and the embedded graphics and I doubt anyone would mind. :)

mb

To me it's also "just" a very handy warning. I read the entire article anyway, so I'm happy as it is. Greatly appreciated!

Reinout

> Provide excerpts (the first few words? a key paragraph? a summary?)

yes, that would be nice.

atom too would be nice to have, but there are automatic tools for doing the conversion, so maybe you shouldn't bother.

I agree that the current feed is sufficient -- thanks very much for providing this convenience service.

If you do make changes, a timestamp and direct links to articles would be nice to have.

Finding a new essay by Paul is like an early Christmas present. This RSS feed is SWEET!

It is fine as is and thank-you.

I would support Atom and Dublin Core stuff, because hey, more metadata is always good, right? Who knows what we'll think of to do with it in the future.

But it's eminently optional. Thanks very much for this service.

The status quo is just fine. I'd rather read the article on Paul's site (and have a look around in case there's other new stuff)

I frequently want to refer to an existing paulgraham.com article or essay. So I'd prefer to have a feed with a lot more of the older essays on there, or all of them (it's just as easy to see when something new comes). Since a lot of people like the way it is now, perhaps you could do it both ways?

As has been said before, the feed is fine for me as it is because I use it mainly as a notification service to read the essays on Graham's site.

But your work is much appreciated and I sincerely thank you.

:)

For the current style and pacing of the essays that PG publishes, your feed is perfect for my RSS reading style.

If PG started publishing mostly essays that were only a couple of paragraphs each, it would be nice to read those directly through the feed. I like to read longer stuff in a web browser, so for PG's current essays, "just a link" is fine with me.

Also, since the essays are usually spread apart in time, I usually don't have any trouble noticing the new feed entry before another new essay comes out. If the pace were to pick up to more than once every couple of days, it would be nice to have more than just the latest essay in the feed. My ideal would be to have enough entries to cover at least the last 2 or 3 days. In the case of multiple entries, a date field would also be nice.

Thanks for providing such a nice service!

I would be much happier if the full text of the essay were included in the feed. Failing that, it would be great if the link in the feed led directly to the essay, rather than to the splash page.

In general, fewer clicks is preferable.

Thanks for providing the feed.

A little more in the way of content (i.e. not just the title) would be helpful, but not essential.

Thanks.

I'd like a couple more than just one entry, and at least a short summary (maybe the first paragraph), if not the entire article. I'd love Atom, but I can do without that. I was actually about to set my up my own scraped feed for the site (which would have done all that) when I found yours, so laziness took over.

I like it as it is. Thanks a lot for your effort. :)

No matter what you do, just keep doing it :-)
It's one of my favorite RSS feeds.

Thanks.

Seasons Greetings,

* Include more than the most entry in the RSS feed - Yes
* Provide excerpts -- key sentences and your summary
* Have an atom version in addition to the RSS one? --- Would be nice - not important !
* Add elements like dc:date? --- Optional
* Offer other things that may not have occurred to me? - Thanks a lot

Cheers, Kishore.