Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#1

Post by hugov » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 12:49 PM UTC

Like many of you, I read Hacker News through an RSS reader. The Hacker News RSS only has title links, no preview or link to the comments page (unless the item has no URL, like this one). To go to the comments page, you have to navigate to news.ycombinator.com, find the item you want, and click on comments. PG: can you please add a link to the comments page from the body of each RSS item. Thanks!

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#2

Post by ks » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 1:26 PM UTC

I see links to comment pages for all items, so perhaps it's your RSS reader?

But it would be nice to see the submission text.

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#3

Post by dizz » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 1:47 PM UTC

+1 :-) I don't see links to comment pages for all items... using google reader

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#4

Post by AxiomShell » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 2:15 PM UTC

ks wrote: post #2

I see links to comment pages for all items, so perhaps it's your RSS reader? But it would be nice to see the submission text.

I don't see links as well. I'm using Google Reader.

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#5

Post by rob » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 2:18 PM UTC

I brought this up a while ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35363

I was using Google Reader, and there was no comments link, but have since switched to NetNewsWire (OS X) where everything works correctly. It doesn't look like it'll change.

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#6

Post by hugov » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 2:53 PM UTC

I'm using Vienna (OS X) which as far as I can tell works perfectly for every one of the other 200+ feeds I subscribe to - but not for Hacker News. It looks like simply replacing the tag with a description tag containing (only) a hyperlink to the comments page would fix the problem. Many readers ignore the tag.

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#7

Post by BvS » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 3:24 PM UTC

A while ago someone (sorry, forget the name) created an alternative feed which shows a link to the comment page: http://harumi.ath.cx/newsyc

Works fine with Google-Reader.

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#8

Post by yrashk » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 4:48 PM UTC

ks wrote: post #2

I see links to comment pages for all items, so perhaps it's your RSS reader? But it would be nice to see the submission text.

NetNewsWire shows link to comments

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#9

Post by pg » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 5:31 PM UTC

There are comment links in the rss feed. Some readers show them and some don't. If anyone can give me the exact syntax that would work in the latter, I'll try it.

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

#10

Post by brett » Sat, Feb 09, 2008, 8:06 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #9

There are comment links in the rss feed. Some readers show them and some don't. If anyone can give me the exact syntax that would work in the latter, I'll try it.

  
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