For those of you who read Offbeat Bride via RSS (which includes those of you who follow on Facebook or LiveJournal), you'll notice a change in the the way posts appear. Longer posts are now clipped, with a link to click through to read the full post here on the site. It's the same as the way longer posts appear on the homepage — you get a teaser on the homepage, and then a link to continue reading and then comment. Shorter posts will appear in full.

This was a change I thought a lot about — I do all my blog reading via RSS, and I know what a pain truncated feeds can be. But over the last few months I've notice that, with full posts showing up all over the web, discussion was getting super dispersed. For many posts, there are multiple conversations happening in parallel — the comments here on the site, comments on Facebook, and then sometimes comments on LiveJournal!

Ultimately, this here website is my focus — I'm not running a Facebook page or a LiveJournal community. My hope is that by clipping syndicated posts, conversations can flow a bit better and stay on the site. I realize this may not be a popular decision — I'd ask y'all to give it a shot for couple weeks and let's see how it goes.

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