Would we need a startup to get RSS into Hacker News?

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by aykall • 18 years ago

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I was just wondering... Is just me that am not skilled enough or we really can't read Hacker News using RSS?

Xichekolas• 18 years ago

You mean this?

http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Link at the bottom of main page.

e1ven• 18 years ago

You and I (and now aykall) certainly know that the link is there, but it's needlessly non-standard UI.

User Interfaces are best when people get what they expect, and they don't need to overthink what they're doing.

In this case, it means that news.yc probably SHOULD support Feed Autodiscovery, by having link rel="alternate" specified, so firefox and other browsers put the easy to see RSS button on the corner.

Is it necessary? Of course not. But if a user is trying to stay abreast of what goes on on your site, it's usually better to give them what they expect.

wanorris• 18 years ago

Is there just the one feed for the whole site, or are there user and per-article comment feeds and a newest article feed somewhere non-obvious?

nreece• 18 years ago

Checkout Feedity - http://feedity.com for creating custom RSS feeds from any webpage

(Shameless self promo)

Would we need a startup to get RSS into Hacker News?

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