To jump break or not to jump break?

[Former_Member]

Google Definition: "After the Jump is a feature which lets you create expandable post summaries in your blog posts, so longer posts appear as an intro with a link to Read More."

I'm always working on making my blog look and feel better and I've been thinking about jump breaks.

I remember when Livejournal was a big thing and jump breaks were common, even necessary (we called them LJ cuts back then). It was one of those unwritten rules than any post longer than a paragraph needed a jump break.

Now that the blogging world is so different are jump breaks even relevant anymore?

Do you use them on your posts or do you just let your entire post display? Are there any obvious benefits to having them or is it just a style choice?

Would love to hear what you guys are doing on your blogs!

[PaperDotCo]

I used to use jump breaks when I was blogging a few years back on Wordpress.

But, in my current blog, I prefer to display the full content. Same with the rss feed - no truncating.

The reasoning is that now people don't have patience now to click on something to get more info. They just see whatever is available on the 1st click and then move on.
They would rather click on another topic link, than click "read more".

[Former_Member]

Im with Ant and Frog. However, I would maybe use one in a post that has really long text at times.

[Former_Member]

Thanks for the feedback! I'm going to limit my use of jump breaks to super long posts only but so far I've been able to keep most of my posts short and sweet and as for RSS feeds I don't even know where to start with those. I guess that's a discussion for another day haha.