Suggestion: Add Y Combinator Comments Link to Feeds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12260

by walesmd • 19 years ago

10 9 19 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

walesmd• 19 years ago

I do most of my YCombinator News 'browsing' via Google Reader. After reading an article I often want to come back and read the comments (or add my own), but it's such a pain to have to physically type in the URL, find the article in question, and visit the comments section.

Why not include a "YCombinator Comments" link within the body of the article in the feeds?

pg• 19 years ago

There are comments links in the feed (view source on it) but for some reason they get ignored by feed readers. If anyone has a better suggestion, include it in this thread.

zaidf• 19 years ago

May be html encode the link so it isn't treated as a link and thus not ignored by the reader?

busy_beaver• 19 years ago

Bloglines shows the comments links fine, so not all feed readers ignore them.

What I'd like to see in the feed is some indication that the link points to an external site. We get that locally, but not in the feed.

Edit -- that looks unclear upon rereading. When we see an article in the list on news.ycombinator.com, it looks like this:

Y Combinator a new twist on finding hot companies (mercurynews.com)

The same article in the RSS feed doesn't show the (mercurynews.com) part. It would be convenient to have that in the feed as well, so we know that we need to pop two new tabs for that article, rather than just one.

brett• 19 years ago

Looks like reddit also adds a description tag with a couple escaped anchor tag inside of it

google reader and their home page thing both show these links along with the main link.

edit: there was an example but it's getting destroyed. can I wrap code in something so it gets put in a pre? just go look at reddit's rss:

http://reddit.com/.rss

edit 2: while your making rss changes you could at a link tag to the head so browsers know the rss is there (replacing the "-lt-" and "-gt-"): -lt-link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="/rss" /-gt-

gibsonf1• 19 years ago

Good idea

joshwa• 19 years ago

or make the bookmarklet not upvote, so we can use it to find comment threads.

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=3902

newbiedude• 19 years ago

I second the suggestion... I have to come back here often to see whether there are replies or not

entelarust• 19 years ago

good idea

Suggestion: Add Y Combinator Comments Link to Feeds

Related Stories