When users follow your feed (on the feed page or lean follow page), they can select what content they will receive going forward. They can choose from:
- Headlines only: Only the headlines of your stories will be displayed in the emails; they are links to the full stories on your website.
- Full stories: The entire content for that story – provided it is contained in your RSS feed (see more on this below) – will be sent to your followers.
We suggest you to leave it up to your followers to pick what they prefer. This is part of our philosophy “Provide choice & get more followers”. However, you don’t have to. As publisher, you can:
- Set the defaults: You can decide which option should be selected by default when users follow you. Most users don’t change this – so they will have the setting you set as default.
You can do this on the settings page of your feed (login, click on the feed name in the left menu, and then on “Settings”), on the “Follow options-tab.
- Disallow changing of defaults: Also on the settings page of your feed you can prevent your followers from changing the defaults.
Above selections apply to new followers (who follow your feed coming from your website). To change it for existing followers, go to your feed’s follower page, select the followers you want to change it for, and then click on “Content (emails)”.
Note: the option “Full stories” actually means “all content as provided by your RSS feed”. The RSS feed is the source where we take your content from (read more about how it works in detail). If you want to limit what your content your followers receive – e.g. from snippets only to full stories, or vice versa – then please set this in your RSS feed.
