Mastodawn

*sigh*

No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.

Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.

I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.

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Neil Brown 6d ago

For the last 25 years, I've relied on RSS for a lot of blogs that I read regularly.

If some of those have adopted slop images, I won't necessarily know, as I don't see their images.

And, if your blog does not have (full text, please) RSS, please do consider adding it! It is the future.

And the past.

#rss

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dazfuller

@neil one of things I liked most when I created my site with Hugo, is that there was an rss feed by default. It was a big thing I wanted, regardless of if anybody reads my stuff.

@dazfuller Yes!

@neil you got me thinking about my setup overnight. I’ve now implemented a custom feed template so the entire post is in there, not just the summary