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Can news.yc provide a 'comment' link in the RSS feeds?
I like how the feed titles go directly to the article in question and not to their own homepage first (like Digg), but I often find that I want to comment on a story I read here on news.yc. This means I have to open up news.ycombinator.com, find the article, and click 'comments'. Can you provide a simple '[comments]' link in the feed body pointing to the news.yc comment page, similar to reddit?
- drm237 19y agoWhat RSS reader are you using? In IE7 (no one's favorite) there is a comments link. Not sure about other feed readers.
- ivankirigin 19y agoI use google-reader, and the only link is to the target story. Ideally, the RSS feed would allow a link to the news.yc story, which would allow you to leave a comment. Modding should also be in the rss feed, if possible. Buttons are bad in most rss feeds it seems.
- ochiba 19y agoI'm using FeedReader and there isn't a comment link. I'm not sure if it's specific to FR, but there's no article summary or extract, that would also be useful.
- joshwa 19y agoyou can use the bookmarklet, but this means you'll be upvoting the article, too.
- adrianh 19y agoYes! Please do this! I read the RSS feed for news.ycombinator.com, and I don't get to view (and participate in) the discussions as much as I'd like to, purely because the RSS feed in Google Reader does not include a link to the discussion page. I see the RSS feed contains a <comments> element for each entry, which is being ignored by Google Reader. Sure, using <comments> is the purer way to do it, but it's worth adding a simple "View comments" link to the description of each RSS entry, for people whose RSS readers don't support the RSS <comments> tag.
- brett 19y agoYES!
- pg 19y agoWe do. Look at the feed source. If there's something wrong with the format, please tell us.
- brett 19y agoI'm starting to feel either invisible or grossly inarticulate on this one. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842 A lot of readers will render (xml escaped) html put in a description tag for each item, including a tags pointing to a given link's comment page.
- ctdean 19y agoThere is something wrong with the format. Some readers are ignoring the comment field (not your fault, but that's the sad reality), change it to a description field and encode the link to the story and the link to the comments in that field. This is what the reddit feed does, fwiw.
- inklesspen 19y agoThis is a bit old, but I made an alternate feed that did this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419