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Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

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Post by rob » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 2:49 PM UTC

silencio wrote: post #11

rob wrote: post #5

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.

That's really odd. NNW for me doesn't show links, and never has...hmm, too bad it doesn't keep track of when I subscribe to feeds, but I'm fairly sure that's how it's always been for me.

Hmm, actually it might depend on the theme you're using. I'm using the Ollicle Reflex theme (http://www.ollicle.com/2006/nov/28/jquery_netnewswire_style....) and it displays the comments link neatly in the right column.

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

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Post by hugov » Mon, Feb 11, 2008, 1:01 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #13

bd wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or like this: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=112684 Comments ]]>

Ok, does it work now? Here's what I'm doing: (def rss-stories (stories) (tag (rss version "2.0") (tag channel (tag title (pr this-site*)) (tag link (pr site-url*)) (tag description (pr site-desc*)) (each s stories (tag item (let comurl (+ site-url* (item-url s)) (tag title (pr (eschtml (s 'title)))) (tag link (pr (if (blank (s 'url)) comurl (eschtml (s 'url))))) (tag comments (pr comurl)) (tag description (pr " "))))…

Thanks PG - confirm everything appears to be completely working now!

Re: Ask PG: Link to comments in RSS

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Post by hugov » Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 11:12 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #18

bd wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bloglines now shows the link twice, one from and one from .

Argh. Can anyone tell me a format that will work on all readers? Is the answer to ditch the comments field?

On 20/2 at around 8:15 pm GMT, the comments link disappeared again for me (in Vienna). What's going on?