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Hi, I mainly read YC Startup News through a news aggregator. Could ya'll add a link to comments for each entry in the feed? (This might be a good idea for Re

Hi, I mainly read YC Startup News through a news aggregator. Could ya'll add a link to comments for each entry in the feed? (This might be a good idea for Reddit's feeds too...)

Sam_Odio 19y ago
Good suggestion, but it has already been posted in the features request thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7851 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7851 (This might be a good idea for Reddit's feeds too...) Regarding the reddit request, you might want try posting that @ http://request.reddit.com http://request.reddit.com
- knome 19y ago
  Also, reddit already does this. Looks like this on iGoogle : [-]Bad Software Design: Getting the Level Wrong [link][more]
pg 19y ago
We do (look at the source) but most feed readers seem to ignore it. If anyone can tell us how to format the feed so that stops happening, we're all ears.
- busy_beaver 19y ago
  Feedvalidator finds a couple of problems, but I'm not sure that they're related. http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss Maybe try generating an Atom feed? Atom seems to be much better defined than any of the myriad competing RSS implementations. Or maybe toss a hyperlink into the description tag rather than the comments tag ... from what I see in the RSS 2.0 spec, comments is a more of a "should" rather than a "must". The spec itself refers to it as an optional element, and Winer (I think) says in a note that implementers "should" support it. Clearly some of them don't. :-)
  - busy_beaver 19y ago
    Someone mentioned below that it's working on Reddit. I just looked at their feed, and it looks like they are indeed putting the comments link inside "description" rather than "comments".
- brett 19y ago
  Like I (opaquely?) said last time this came up (http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12380 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12380 ) you could try giving each <item> a <description> child with an escaped link in it a la reddit (http://reddit.com/.rss http://reddit.com/.rss )

Hi, I mainly read YC Startup News through a news aggregator. Could ya'll add a link to comments for each entry in the feed? (This might be a good idea for Reddit's feeds too...)

Sam_Odio 19y ago

Good suggestion, but it has already been posted in the features request thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7851 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7851 (This might be a good idea for Reddit's feeds too...) Regarding the reddit request, you might want try posting that @ http://request.reddit.com http://request.reddit.com

knome 19y ago
Also, reddit already does this. Looks like this on iGoogle : [-]Bad Software Design: Getting the Level Wrong [link][more]

pg 19y ago

We do (look at the source) but most feed readers seem to ignore it. If anyone can tell us how to format the feed so that stops happening, we're all ears.

busy_beaver 19y ago
Feedvalidator finds a couple of problems, but I'm not sure that they're related. http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss Maybe try generating an Atom feed? Atom seems to be much better defined than any of the myriad competing RSS implementations. Or maybe toss a hyperlink into the description tag rather than the comments tag ... from what I see in the RSS 2.0 spec, comments is a more of a "should" rather than a "must". The spec itself refers to it as an optional element, and Winer (I think) says in a note that implementers "should" support it. Clearly some of them don't. :-)
- busy_beaver 19y ago
  Someone mentioned below that it's working on Reddit. I just looked at their feed, and it looks like they are indeed putting the comments link inside "description" rather than "comments".
brett 19y ago
Like I (opaquely?) said last time this came up (http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12380 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12380 ) you could try giving each <item> a <description> child with an escaped link in it a la reddit (http://reddit.com/.rss http://reddit.com/.rss )