PSA: Include full article content in feeds

I recently learned that NetNewsWire supports opting-in individual feeds to “always use reader view”, so I’ve been noticing more closely which of my feeds provide the full content of their feeds versus just a summary, and opting in the latter to that setting where it makes sense. (Annoyingly, this setting doesn’t seem to sync across NetNewsWire macOS and iOS, oh well!) Really, this is a PSA: if you’re a feed author, you ought to include the full content of the article in your feed, especially if you’re writing a blog. Readers generally prefer being able to read all of the content in their feed reader than going to your site, or using a feed content extractor (which isn’t guaranteed to work and takes extra time to run and server resources). Sure — call out that your site has a beautiful design and typography if they’d rather read on your site, but include the full content so the reader can make that choice. If you’re using Atom feeds, you’re in luck: the content element should already…