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Comment by adamnemecek | Hacker News Reader

Add responses and maybe.

You mean “add rss to your own blog and set a link back on your blog roll”?

Internet 1.5 was pretty nice, in hindsight.

Yup. To add to that, posting a reply to your own blog and setting rel=“in-reply-to” and notifying the author with Webmention provides standard decentralized comments/notifications. See aaronparecki.com and the indieweb community for examples.

You can usually click the link to the article which opens it in the browser (if the feed reader itself isn't in the browser to begin with), and if you're logged in to that site (or the commenting system or ID provider they use) you can comment right away.

As for displaying comments along with articles, feeds can reference other feeds, and in theory nothing stops an application or website from from making use of that.

I've implemented displaying of blog posts comments in BazQux Reader (https://bazqux.com) years ago. But in general it works well only for niche sites with good communities. Popular sites have too many spam/bullshit in comments.

BTW: it's possible to read Twitter in RSS reader too and make it a "slow web".

How are you fetching the comments? RSS has no support for that as far as I know.

Atom has support for commments. Decentralized blog comments work like this: You post a reply to your own blog and set rel=“in-reply-to” then notify the author using Webmention. The authors blog software then adds the comment, which gets included in the feed. See aaronparecki.com for working example and the IndieWeb community in general for an example of a community doing standard decentralized comments on the web.

The future of the blogosphere remains bright.

RSS has <wfw:commentRss> for linking comments feed and <comments> for linking page with comments. Atom has <link rel=replies> or just <link rel=alternate type="application/atom+xml"> for comment feeds.

And I'm visiting blog post pages first to check whether they have Disqus comments (which processed separately via Disqus API) and <blog_post_URL>/feed feeds.

I had a comment for that further up in the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532614

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