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What I don't understand is what the need to friggin format the data at all. Why linked pics? Why formatted text? Why advise them to put a link after text? All that's needed is the RAW data!
multiple thumbs sizes, title, description, ref link, any other relevent info like girl's name, release date, whatever.
Example tags
imgsize1
imgsize2
imgsize3
title
desc
reflink
What's so difficult about that? That way we can all choose how and where we want to display the stuff. left aligned thumb with description, centred thumb with title alt tag, large thumb line break title. We can chose which bits are linked, link the title, link the thumb, link the whole description, or link some own text. We can show img size one with a title on site 1, image size 2 on site 2 etc etc.. with formatted feeds everyone gets the same shit, where-as basic data we are showing the same stuff but in different ways and won't all have this identical looking crap.
There's my peeve.. formatted fucking feeds that takes the decision out of my hands about how to display the data. If webmasters don't know how to manipulate feed data themselves then they should fucking learn or not use them. Rant over.
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