Hi, I mainly read YC Startup News through a news aggregator. Could ya'll add a link to comments for each entry in the feed?
(This might be a good idea for Reddit's feeds too...)
(This might be a good idea for Reddit's feeds too...)
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss
Maybe try generating an Atom feed? Atom seems to be much better defined than any of the myriad competing RSS implementations.
Or maybe toss a hyperlink into the description tag rather than the comments tag ... from what I see in the RSS 2.0 spec, comments is a more of a "should" rather than a "must". The spec itself refers to it as an optional element, and Winer (I think) says in a note that implementers "should" support it. Clearly some of them don't. :-)
(This might be a good idea for Reddit's feeds too...)
Regarding the reddit request, you might want try posting that @ http://request.reddit.com
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