A few weeks ago, I wrote about how MSDN had stopped providing full text feeds. After an outcry from the blogosphere, changes were made and people seem to be happy. The underlying problem, however, is still there.

Jon Galloway has a good summary of what happened and what needs to be done.

After a lot of complaints, they’ve enabled HTTP compression and gone back to full text in the RSS feeds and 1250 characters on the main page feed. It’s not what it was - the RSS only lists the last 25 posts, and site only shows 25 posts trimmed to 1250 characters with no links to the individual blogs - but it’s a lot better. I think compression may just be a stopgap, though, so I’d like to suggest some next steps. I’ll start with a recap of some ideas others have talked about, throw in a gripe about treating community sites like they’re “check out my band” web pages, and finish by a modest proposal for a new RSS schema that scales.