As I mentioned in the email I sent to Nate earlier this morning, the goal of this feature is to 1) help content creators increase their readership in feedly (when a user discovers your content and adds it to his feedly, they are converting a one time visitor into a repeat engaged user) and 2) help user consume content faster on mobile device.
We are early in the design and implementation of this feature. If you are a publisher and want to work with us on improving this feature (we are working on some interesting features around discovery, call to action, analytics), please email me at edwin@feedly.com If you do not want to benefit form this feature, you can also sent me an email and we will quickly opt you out.
As a subscriber, and avid fan of feedly, the only thing that I see missing from the feedly reeder is the ability to consume content offline, particularly when I'm mobile, so I'm happy you are working on helping users consume content faster on mobile devices.
If I read the OP article correctly, the major issue is that feedly is now changing the link for an article away from the publishers site, and sending it back to feedly. That's not cool, and I'm hoping you revert back to the original behavior of the sharing feature, and send back the publishers link, not a "feedly link".
I love your product - use it first thing when I wake up, over breakfast, dinner, and just before I go to sleep. Will probably pay you any reasonable subscription fee you ask for. I realize you have to experiment, try new things, or stagnate - this was probably an experiment that went awry. Yes, it will drive more customers to feedly, and, in the short term, show you really good uptake - but, in the long term, it will just attract bad karma from publishers - Your entire value proposition comes from the repackaging of other people's content, that they've allowed you to distribute free of charge, so, at the very least, you can hand out the original link.
Hello,
(This is Edwin from feedly).
As I mentioned in the email I sent to Nate earlier this morning, the goal of this feature is to 1) help content creators increase their readership in feedly (when a user discovers your content and adds it to his feedly, they are converting a one time visitor into a repeat engaged user) and 2) help user consume content faster on mobile device.
We are early in the design and implementation of this feature. If you are a publisher and want to work with us on improving this feature (we are working on some interesting features around discovery, call to action, analytics), please email me at edwin@feedly.com If you do not want to benefit form this feature, you can also sent me an email and we will quickly opt you out.