Any chance of enabling full-text RSS feeds while you're under the hood, good sir? That fits nicely into the category of "things that have changed on the web in the past ten (five even) years." In my experience, the only sites left that don't provide full text feeds are the ones trying to monetize by driving people to the direct pageviews. Frankly, those sites frustrate and alienate me more than the "first 30 words" feeds like yours since I'd be fine with having ads in the feeds accompanying the full content. Anyway, my point is it'd be nice to not have to leave my RSS reader, but I'm not going to stop reading regardless.

That would involve an upgrade from MT, get this, 2.6. Which is probably also in the cards at this point, but it's almost entirely orthogonal to the re-skinning I'm doing through CSS, so that part will wait until later.

2.6!? As in, circa February 2003? Wow, I don't think you've got much of an upgrade path left there. That will be a fun project.

You're right that a facelift is the easy win, but I don't see it as orthogonal since you've stated a version upgrade is in the forecast anyway and any skinning changes you make now will likely be obsolete after an upgrade/migration and will need to be redone. Since any modern blog package will preclude the vast majority of the CSS changes you're probably making by hand, you'd be killing two birds with one very large, very unwieldy stone.

This is all philosophical debate, of course. Talking shop. Thanks for humoring me. Besides, I bet all you'd have to do is comment out a substr() call somewhere to enable "full feeds." ;-)

You don't need to upgrade, just modify your RSS/Atom templates to include the full article body rather than an excerpt. Probably just a modification of the MTEntryBody tag to remove the words parameter or changing an MTEntryExcerpt into an MTEntryBody.

How convenient! Done.